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(this is all alleged) It's nice that this is news but please be aware that farm fires, silos falling on farms and farms generally just collapsing is much, much
by dmbche 4y ago
(this is all alleged)
It's nice that this is news but please be aware that farm fires, silos falling on farms and farms generally just collapsing is much, much more common than in any other type of building due to being an edge case in fire safety.
Farmers are also not encouraged to take precautions to save their animals in case of emergency, as if they die they are paid back by insurance, while if they survive they must be transported and boarded or lent to other farmers.
I have heard rumors of these issues being more common in this industry because the costs to bring farms "up to code" from when they were built 40 years ago is too expensive, and it's simply more financially sound to burn it down - and it's very difficult to prove mischief, since farms are famously run down building filled with old bad wiring and flamable wood shaving and hay.
- dmbche 4y ago-Broiler chicken farms have 17 000 chickens per level, often with 3-4 level per building,are filled with wood shaving and heated with propane burners. They are also wildly unreported, and deaths underreported.
- skyyler 4y agoMy first job was collecting the sick / dead chickens off the floor at a chicken farm. No one was asking how many I picked up, I always assumed the number of chicks dropped off was compared to the number of mature chickens. But maybe no one was even doing that.