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The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu (www.vox.com)
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Last year, I wrote a great deal about the rise of “ventilation shutdown plus” (VSD+), a method being used to mass kill poultry birds on factory farms by sealing off the airflow inside barns and pumping in extreme heat using industrial-scale heaters, so that the animals die of heatstroke over the course of hours. It is one of the worst forms of cruelty being inflicted on animals in the US food system — the equivalent of roasting animals to death — and it’s been used to kill tens of millions of poultry birds during the current avian flu outbreak.

As of this summer, the most recent period for which data is available, more than 49 million birds, or over 80 percent of the depopulated total, were killed in culls that used VSD+ either alone or in combination with other methods, according to an analysis of USDA data by Gwendolen Reyes-Illg, a veterinary adviser to the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), an animal advocacy nonprofit. These mass killings, or “depopulations,” in the industry’s jargon, are paid for with public dollars through a USDA program that compensates livestock farmers for their losses.

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I sometimes hope for aliens to come to this planet and treat us like we treat other living beings.

Humanity is such a poor excuse for civilisation

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Humans are fucking disgusting. If you zoom out far enough we are just a bacterial infection of the Earth. Spreading our gray cities like bacteria in a petri dish. Growth for the sake of growth is the mentality of a cancer cell.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Well Earth is about to pitch a fever to fight us off…

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's the "mentality" of most everything. We just have the ability to reflect upon it and, perhaps, change it.

[–] brambledog -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact: this Joe Rogan rant from 2011 you plagiarized wasn't even written by him.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know what rants you're talking about. This is not a new idea and I did not frame it as a new idea. Maybe stop living your life in podcasts, that is wild that you memorized a quote from 12 years ago

[–] tok@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe one of the big filters for intelligent life in the universe is greed

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The ferengi agree.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm looking forward to alien's selectively breeding us for pets like we do dogs.

It would be a trip to see how many dwarf albinos end up running around