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Title: Chicken Hanging
Photographer: Unknown
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Meat-chicken producers typically cram 10,000 birds onto a single flat-bed truck on route to slaughter.

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At the slaughterhouse, birds’ bones are snapped and broken as workers yank them from their crates and hang them by the legs to the moving line of overhead shackles.

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Lack of legal protection and impossibly-fast production lines at the slaughterhouse ensure an inhumane end for the billions of poultry killed annually.

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Hung upside down by shackles, thousands of chickens are killed every hour at the slaughterhouse.

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The drained blood from their necks flows away into collecting tanks.

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Hung in their shackles the birds continue their journey.

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Thousands of birds a minute are processed on mechanised conveyers day after day. What these photos cannot show is the intense smell pervading the slaughterhouse.

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Scalding tanks remove the birds’ feathers, although many birds may be immersed while still alive and conscious when they lift their heads and miss the killing blade.

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