Dead on arrival
Holy Mammoth, I didn’t know that.
That should change.
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Every year, millions of farm animals die before they even reach slaughter. In the U.S. alone, around 20 million chickens, 330,000 pigs, and 166,000 cattle perish in transit due to extreme temperatures, overcrowding, and stress. These animals suffer for hours, only to be discarded upon arrival.
This mass mortality isn’t just a welfare issue—it’s an unimaginable scale of food waste. The animals who die in transport never enter the food system, despite enduring the same intensive farming and transport conditions as those who do. For consumers, this unseen loss raises important questions about the efficiency and ethics of industrial agriculture.
With better regulations, welfare standards, and transport conditions, many of these deaths could be prevented. Yet, the problem remains largely hidden from public view. If we saw the reality of how animals are moved through the food system, would we accept it?
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Reigning cats & dogs
95% of donations to animal charities are for cats and dogs. This helps 4 million animals per year.
Only 3% of donations to animal charities go to helping farmed animals. That 3% is shared between 83 billion animals on factory farms.
Despite these incomprehensible numbers and intensity of their suffering, farmed animals are severely neglected comparatively to their companion animal counter parts.
This substantial imbalance indicates that donating to a farmed animal charity (instead of or as well as one supporting cats and dogs) would increase the number of animals your donation would actually support, significantly.
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Figures are based on annual averages in the USA, taken from ACE.