Ventilation shut down used to "depopulate" farm animals

[Catherine]

They are doing it in some parts of the USA. I hope it is not widespread. It is horribly cruel.
It is a direct consequence of the way we factory farm. Farmers are not prepared to keep animals more than a certain amount of time. And I do mean that they have not made any preparations that would allow them to look after the animals if for some reason there was a delay or a closure of the slaughterhouses.

It has finally happened. Because of the pandemic many slaughterhouses are shut down. So, the only thing the farmers can think to do is to kill the animals and they have made no plans to do that humanely so they choose a crude and cruel way to get rid of the animals in their care. They think of it as getting rid of excess product. They have forgotten that these are live animals that will suffer and know fear as they slowly die.

We have reached such a level of inhumanity that this isn't even illegal.