Heatwaves are roasting millions of farmed animals alive

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/heatwaves-are-roasting-millions-of-farmed-animals-alive

In France, up to 3 million chickens died from heat in just a few days this June.

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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 21 pts · 22d (4 replies)

Some farms in Brittany had to count their losses in thousands. “It is a massive psychological shock for farmers,” the representative of the farmers' union FNSEA, Thierry Houel, told the local public radio ICI Bretagne.

I’m sorry but if you’ve got thousands of chickens locked up in sheds and presumably collect their eggs and/or kill them for meat I highly doubt it’s a “psychological shock” for you, otherwise you wouldn’t have been doing that in the first place.

WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 22d

The shock is losing so much inventory/production capacity unexpectedly. Not the fact that animals die.

Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 22d (1 reply)

The psychological shock must come from the lost earnings

Business types lose their minds over shrink, regardless of if their inventory finds it horrific

HieroProtagonist@feddit.org · 1 pts · 22d

If their lost earnings means the end of their business... yeah, this IS a legitimate psychological shock.

FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 22d

I was so sad because i lost so much money.