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ALT USDA Poultry Slaughter 2024/2025 Summary, excerpt chart representing poultry condemned post-mortem due to scalding (which includes being scalded alive) & diseases, including: Leukosis Septicaemia Airsacculitis Synovitis Tumors Bruises Cadaver Contamination Overscald Post-Mortem Condemnations: Carcasses or parts of birds condemned includes federally inspected and establishment sorted because of disease or mishandling and removed from the slaughter line and destroyed. USDA site link: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/pg15bd88s/m613p944x/ht24xx05j/pslaan23.pdfhttps://esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/release-files/795797/pslaan26.pdf

ALT Picture of pig in transport to slaughterhouse, from Guardian article "More than 20 million farm animals die on way to abattoir in US every year" by Sophie Kevany, dated 6/2022, indicating, "Approximately 20 million chickens, 330,000 pigs and 166,000 cattle are dead on arrival, or soon after, at abattoirs in the US every year, analysis of publicly available data shows. A further 800,000 pigs are calculated to be unable to walk on arrival." Guardian article link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/more-than-20-million-farm-animals-die-on-way-to-abattoir-in-us-every-year

ALT Image of pigs in CO2 chamber in USA, with "viewer discretion advised" warning. Image is from WIRED expose written by Andy Greenberg in January 2023 called "Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers" with synopsis and details including the following: "Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide 'stunning chamber' in a US meatpacking plant. Link: https://www.wired.com/story/dex-pig-slaughterhouse-gas-chambers-videos/

ALT Image from Vox's expose "Americans ditched veal. What replaced it may be just as bad. The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement." by Marina Bolotnikova dated Mar 26, 2026 Image caption indicates, "Drone footage of a Grimmius facility. The skinny white rows in the foreground are rows of calf hutches; the area of thicker rows behind them are group pens for calves moved out of individual hutches after they’ve been weaned. Courtesy of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE)" "As US dairy farms have consolidated into mega dairies housing thousands or even tens of thousands of cows each, they have found it more profitable to hand off calf-raising to outside companies...A 2024 investigation by the nonprofits Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Animals’ Angels found that dairy farms across the country were shipping neonatal calves, umbilical cords still attached..." Link: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/480529/calf-ranches-grimmius-investigation-dairy-confinement

ALT Page one of USDA suspension letter of Swift Pork Company regarding a slaughterhouse violation detailing the scalding-to-death of conscious hog. USDA link source: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-02/m85o-nos-09022020.pdf#:~:text=The%20incident%20described%20above%20indicates%20a%20violation%20of,as%20written%20at%20the%20time%20of%20the%20incident.

ALT Page two of USDA suspension letter of Swift Pork Company regarding a slaughterhouse violation detailing the scalding-to-death of conscious hog. USDA link source: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-02/m85o-nos-09022020.pdf#:~:text=The%20incident%20described%20above%20indicates%20a%20violation%20of,as%20written%20at%20the%20time%20of%20the%20incident.

ALT Excerpt from Wired expose of CO2 use to stun pigs "Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers" that indicates the following: "Counter to Smithfield’s claims, several veterinarians, animal agriculture experts, and an animal welfare law professor who watched DxE’s videos and others from research studies agree that the kind of reaction captured in the footage represents an inhumane and even illegal degree of pain. 'Those animals suffered terribly. They suffered horribly,' says Jim Reynolds, a vet and professor at Western University’s College of Veterinary Medicine who has served on the American Veterinary Medicine Association’s panel for euthanasia guidelines. 'It was absolutely a violation of federal law. They were not stunned. It was inhumane.' Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/dex-pig-slaughterhouse-gas-chambers-videos/

ALT May 2023 Guardian excerpt with picture of suffering pigs exposed to CO2 meant to stun pigs but which causes immense fear and suffering. Opening paragraphs indicate: "New undercover footage showing British pigs being gassed prior to slaughter has led to renewed calls to investigate the use of CO2. Campaigners say the pictures – the first of their kind to be obtained in a UK abattoir – show the 'utterly inhumane' nature of using CO2 to stun pigs before being killed. But the pork industry says its use is recognised as the most welfare-friendly method available, and says alternatives are being sought." Guardian source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/02/suffering-of-gassed-pigs-laid-bare-in-undercover-footage-from-uk-abattoir

ALT USDA "Veal from Farm to Table" information summarizing the young age calves are killed due to them being considered "nonprofitable" as exploited in the dairy industry. Also indicated at link is, "Veal calves are usually separated from the cows within 3 days..." USDA source link: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/meat/veal-farm-table

ALT Picture of rows upon rows upon rows of individual calf hutches in large dusty field, holding 8500 calves, on Halls Calf Ranch in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, where, as indicated on Progressive Dairy site, the Halls Calf Ranch indicates, "Most calves enter the facilities at 12-24 hours old and are raised in hutches until they’re off milk." Site link: https://www.agproud.com/articles/54319-strict-protocols-to-prevent-calfhood-diseases-case-study

ALT Excerpt graph of USDA's most recently-compiled report of "cattle" and calves who violently die yearly, but not from their predetermined slaughter, including from harmful conditions and neglect, such as digestive, respiratory, & metabolic problems; poisoning; injury; disease; "unknown"; as well as from nonhuman predators, which is included in further detail in the link. Highlighted is calves and "cattle" forced to die from "weather related" causes: 157,400 "cattle" deaths and 261,900 calf deaths. Total number of "cattle" who violently died due to the above: 1,694,620 Total number of calves who violently died due to the above: 1,904,810 USDA source link: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/general/downloads/cattle_calves_deathloss_2015.pdf

ALT Picture of rows upon rows upon rows of individual calf hutches in large dusty field, holding 8500 calves, on Halls Calf Ranch in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

ALT Screenshot of USDA slaughter report 2022; highlighted is cow slaughter at "9.1%/ ~3 million" and calf death at 369,200. USDA source link: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/r207tp32d/8p58qs65g/g445dv089/lsan0423.pdf

ALT USDA "Veal from Farm to Table" information summarizing the young age calves are killed due to them being considered "nonprofitable" as exploited in the dairy industry. Also indicated is, "Veal calves are usually separated from the cows within 3 days..." USDA source link: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/meat/veal-farm-table

ALT USDA Poultry Slaughter Report March & April 2022 Summary, excerpt chart representing poultry condemned post-mortem due to scalding (which includes being scalded alive) & diseases, including: Leukosis Septicaemia Airsacculitis Synovitis Tumors Bruises Cadaver Contamination Overscald Miscellaneous 1 Unknown 2 1 Includes any portion of the carcass affected by an inflammatory process, plant-rejected carcasses, missing viscera, or ascites fluid preventing proper inspection of the carcass. 2 Birds condemned and removed with no cause given by federal inspectors and establishment sorters. Post-Mortem Condemnations: Carcasses or parts of birds condemned includes federally inspected and establishment sorted because of disease or mishandling and removed from the slaughter line and destroyed. USDA site link: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/3197xm04j/xs55nj73t/5425mg698/psla0522.pdf

ALT Picture of suffering pig in transport to slaughterhouse, from Guardian article "More than 20 million farm animals die on way to abattoir in US every year" indicating, "Approximately 20 million chickens, 330,000 pigs and 166,000 cattle are dead on arrival, or soon after, at abattoirs in the US every year, analysis of publicly available data shows. A further 800,000 pigs are calculated to be unable to walk on arrival." Guardian article link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/more-than-20-million-farm-animals-die-on-way-to-abattoir-in-us-every-year

ALT Excerpt graph of USDA's most recently-compiled report of "cattle" and calves who violently die yearly, but not from their predetermined slaughter, including from harmful conditions and neglect, such as digestive, respiratory, & metabolic problems; poisoning; injury; disease; "unknown"; as well as from nonhuman predators, which is included in further detail in the link. Total number of "cattle" who violently died due to the above: 1,694,620 Total number of calves who violently died due to the above: 1,904,810 USDA source link: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/general/downloads/cattle_calves_deathloss_2015.pdf

ALT Screenshot of vegan asking cult-like religious extremists who desperately need a violent god to "sanctify" the violent suffering they cause: "So you'll burn in hell if you don't violently exploit god's beings? Like, god gave animals the ability to suffer, experience emotion, & the desire to NOT want to die, but then willed humans to relentlessly cause such against them? Is jesus on smithfield's board of directors?" Shown is video still of suffering pigs being violently burned from the inside out using the globally-standard form of pig stunning, CO2, proven to cause extreme pain and suffering.

ALT Image created & published by Vegan Sidekick asking ppl who desperately need a violent god to "sanctify" the violence they cause, if they'll be punished by god if they choose a path of minimum violence vs maximum suffering & not consume violently killed animals. Source link: http://vegansidekick.com