HORROR! 41,000 Chickens Suffocate in Tragic Farm Power Outage

Earlier this week, 41,000 chickens suffocated at a prison farm after a power outage shut off ventilation systems in the large warehouses where the birds were kept.

For those who aren’t familiar, a prison farm is typically a large correctional facility where convicts are used for manual labor. In this instance, the prisoners were working on a factory farm that raises chickens for meat.

According to a local news source in Arkansas, “A tractor driver hit poles at the farm in August, resulting in a seven-hour power outage.

This is far from the first time tragic incidents like these have made headlines. Devastating fires near the top of the list.

This past June, multiple fires killed hundreds of cows and 1,500 pigs across Canada, and in July, a barn fire killed more than 1,200 pigs in North Carolina. Six cows had to be euthanized after a fire broke out on the truck transporting them to slaughter in Nebraska, and in South Africa, nearly 100,000 baby chicks were killed after the main structure at the farm caught fire.

Stories like these serve as painful reminders of the dangers farmed animals face when intensively confined on factory farms and during transport, unable to flee fires, floods, tornados, or other disasters.

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