Those poor animals. First a miserable life and then such a horrible way to die.
Animal agriculture kills something like 200 million chickens a day. They all live short miserable lives anyway, this hardly stands out to me.
You’re not completely wrong, but image of being burned alive is quite striking to me
For anyone curious about the previous commenter’s stat
For chickens, the daily count is extremely large – 202 million chickens every day. To comprehend the scale, it is better to bring it down to the average minute: 140,000 chickens are slaughtered every minute.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day
Bird flu and insurance fraud?
I mean, chicken shit can self combust in the right conditions, so hanlon’s razor might apply here.
Sawdust is pretty explosive once ignited, and they usually have big blowers forcing air through the place.
They’re basically designed like blast furnaces if ignition occurs.
My first thought was, does this have something to do with bird flu? Are we speculating that H5N1 was found and they needed to recoup the loss?
recoup the loss
It’s worth mentioning this isn’t an isolated instance sadly
Fires on large-scale animal farms, or factory farms, are surprisingly common. Over the last decade, at least 6.5 million farmed animals, mostly chickens, perished in barn fires in the US
The true number is likely significantly higher, AWI notes, because not all states have the same reporting requirements, and because farm animals are property with essentially no legal protection from suffering
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23683141/texas-farm-fire-explosion-dimmitt-cows-factory-dairy
Looks like we are getting at the post-dystopian check point sooner than thought
That one instance has the power over millions of creatures of any species and for whatever purpose, incarcerated in one big container, to do with them as they please, is more horrific than any story i read so far.
Even more so that we are just starting to find out how intelligent animals really are.
I bet it smells delicious though.
Burning feathers are pretty awful smelling.
Mixed with the smell of shit… Also on fire.
It will smell of burned meat (not carefully grilled), burned hair (same material as feathers), and burned shit. Along with whatever infrastructure went up with it.
Still sound good?
Go fuck yourself.
Ok seriously, what possible purpose is served by letting states have their own agencies that can have less strict requirements than federal standards?
Lowering the costs of production in order to max profit
I’m proud of this comment section for not making the obvious joke
Something about barbeque?
