As if factory farms and chickens suffering with bird flu aren’t disturbing enough, the USDA is currently considering a gruesome method for terminating infected chickens. A viral outbreak of the HPAI virus took more than 200 commercial farms by storm this spring, and led to the euthanizing of 6.5 million turkeys and 42.1 million chickens. Now, according to Motherboard, the USDA is preparing for a possible second wave of the disease by proposing to euthanize infected chickens by shutting off their air supply and slowly cooking them alive.
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