![]() But every now and then that reality flashes briefly across the public consciousness, as it did during last year’s news stories about mad cow disease, when television viewers glimpsed a sick cow being dragged along the ground to a slaughterhouse. Even readers of books and articles about conditions in factory farms may not be aware of what happens to animals at slaughter. Most Americans, largely disconnected from their food supply, assume these animals met a painless end, if they think about it at all. TO SATISFY THE PUBLIC’S ever-growing appetite for meat, slaughterhouses in the United States killed ten billion animals last year. ![]()
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