Crosspost of my blog post.

Factory farming is evil.

I know, I know, I’ve made this point before. I’ve described, in depth, the way we treat animals. I’ve described that we stuff billions of chickens into tiny cages where they can’t turn around or flap their wings—where their frail bones are broken three times on average over the course of their brief lives, where they inhale nothing but feces deposits from the caged birds above them.

I’ve described the results of a report which estimated that egg-laying hens spend about an hour a day in distress as intense as the most intense distress most humans ever experience. That they never see the sun except immediately before slaughter—that one of the most distressing things that can happen to a hen, being unable to perch, happens to nearly all the egg-laying hens in the world.

They live in filth [...]

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First published:
August 12th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6YTxxCF4G9FyMyPMW/the-bone-chilling-evil-of-factory-farming

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Images from the article:

White chickens in stacked wire cages with red combs on heads.

Infographic showing daily animal slaughter statistics worldwide, with icons and numbers.

The data visualization presents global slaughter rates for different animals:
- 900,000 cows
- 1.4 million goats
- 1.7 million sheep
- 3.8 million pigs
- 12 million ducks
- 202 million chickens
- Hundreds of millions of fish

The data comes from the Food and Agriculture Organization for 2021, averaged per day.

Large industrial pig farm with rows of confined sows in gestation crates.

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“The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming” by Bentham’s Bulldog

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