A thousand pigs just burned alive in a barn fire | Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
A thousand pigs just burned alive in a barn fire | Cruelty is built into the pork industry — but it could at least try to prevent fires.
More than 1,000 pigs died in a blaze at a North Carolina barn that — like most of the pork industry — hadn’t installed sprinklers.
This is not an isolated incident. Three weeks ago, 1,100 pigs died in a fire at a factory farm in Ohio, while 70,000 chickens died in a fire at a California factory farm in mid-July. So far, in 2024, nearly 1.5 million farmed animals have died in barn fires, according to data compiled by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), a US nonprofit organization.
More than 8 million farmed animals have perished in barn fires over the last decade, but animal advocates believe the true number is much higher because reporting requirements vary by state. Among the factory farming complex’s many cruelties, these deaths are little noted but disturbingly common.
Here's a good wiki article that lists a lot of them out. It's surprisingly frequent that thousands to occasionally millions burned alive in the US. (Also lists it for other countries too which are a bit better but still way more common than it should be)
Ugh this is gut-wrenching. Thank you for sharing. Those poor creatures...