12,000 Baby Chicks Die in Factory Farm Fire

Image: walb.com A fire at a poultry factory farm in Georgia killed more than 12,000 baby chicks last week. News reports say it’s a huge economic loss for the company, but nothing about the suffering the chicks must have gone through. Weirdly, the incident happened on the fifth anniversary of the day a tornado touched down on the same farm and damaged two chicken houses, killing 20,000 chickens…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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12,000 Baby Chicks Die in Factory Farm Fire

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