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Iowa Egg Farm Slaughters 5.3 Million Chickens, Fires Workers

  • April 29, 2022

A single case of Avian influenza found in a chicken on an Iowa egg-laying farm resulted in a mass slaughter of 5.3 million chickens. After what The Guardian described as a “gruesome killing,” farm workers were left to do the clean-up. “Workers spent nearly a month pulling the dead poultry from the cages and dumping them in carts before they were piled high in nearby fields and buried in huge pits,” The Guardian reported. And when they were finished doing the repugnant...