No Reprieve
24 per cent of dairy cows are pregnant when slaughtered - many nearing full term.
Dairy Deaths
Calves are taken from their mothers a day or two after birth. Males are usually killed.
Boiled Alive
Up to one fifth of chickens may be fully conscious when they enter the scalding tank to loosen their feathers.
Saving Space
Broiler sheds may contain up to 50,000 birds - each one allowed a space the size of a telephone directory.
The Healthy Option?
Nearly all 850 million
Broiler Barbarity
Four-fifths of broiler chickens (killed for meat) have broken bones and deformed feet, legs and other bone deformities.
Assault and Battery
80 per cent of all eggs come from battery hens - kept five to a cage no bigger
than a microwave oven.
Terror for
25 per cent of turkeys are in chronic pain because of swollen joints - 70 per cent of big birds.
Ducks' Despair
Most ducks are factory farmed in crowded sheds. they never see daylight or swim in water.
Not So Humane
Millions of calves, lambs and pigs are conscious when their throats are cut.
Silent Lambs
20 per cent of lambs die from cold, disease and starvation.
