At least 1m chickens die in the UK each year while being transported to slaughterhouses due to suffocation, poor transport procedures and other issues, reported the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in 2018.
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The new data showed that 6,595 animals died due to heat stress en route to abattoirs between June and August 2025, which was the warmest summer on record in the UK.
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Climate change is “simply amplifying the violence already built into animal farming”, he says, adding that the only “compassionate, logical” solution is to “stop viewing animals as products and urgently transition to a plant-based food system”.
As you quote:
At least 1m chickens die in the UK each year while being transported to slaughterhouses due to suffocation, poor transport procedures and other issues, reported the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in 2018.
The new data showed that 6,595 animals died due to heat stress en route to abattoirs between June and August 2025, which was the warmest summer on record in the UK.
And for completeness:
In the UK specifically over one billion chickens are killed every year
3,300 chickens died from heat in transit last year, out of 1,000,000 that died from any cause in transit last year, out of 1,000,000,000 that were murdered last year.
Assuming those deaths were made up with breeding more to be slaughtered (and murdering the male chicks). Climate change made the meat industry 0.0007% more murderous and wasteful than it otherwise would have been.
Stop the mass exploitation of our fellow animals.