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Numerous incidents document the severe suffering of farmed chickens and pigs in Europe and the United States, specifically involving burning and boiling alive. Reports indicate that hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys are boiled alive annually in US slaughterhouses, often resulting from high-speed processing lines failing to stun or kill the birds before scalding tanks; regulatory bodies have considered further increases to these line speeds. Significant numbers of birds, sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands at a time, have also perished in farm fires across Europe, with poor manure management cited as a contributing factor in at least one instance. Additionally, specific events highlight pigs being boiled or burned alive, including incidents linked to disease control measures during the coronavirus crisis. Similar practices, such as the boiling of male ducklings deemed commercially useless, have been reported in other regions like China, alongside incidents of pigs being boiled alive in Australian slaughterhouses. These occurrences underscore significant animal welfare issues within current agricultural and slaughter practices. – AI-generated abstract.
