From a purely animal science perspective: there are reasons why pigs, chickens, and veal calves have been housed that way by the big commercial farms. Sows *will* roll over onto their piglets and squish them, which is why commercial facilities have the setup they do. Chickens are... well, chickens in a commercial setting are fucked up. If there are too few of them in a space, they go neurotic and start pecking each other and pulling feathers. If there are too many, they do the same thing. So though it seems like chickens are packed in tightly, that's usually* the density they prefer. For the veal calves, it's all about maximizing the tender meat. The most tender cuts on meat animals are the suspension muscles, the ones that don't do any work in walking; the largest muscles, though, are the ones designed for motion. Restrict movement, and the walking muscles start taking the texture of the suspension muscles, increasing the number of cuts that can be sold for high profit
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Check this page; some of them do deliver, I think. At least they use UPS.
Sneaky! Adding another video after posting! Mostly, dead on. Except the clip at the very beginning, with the slaughterhouse guy using his foot to get a cow's (well, more likely a steer's) head turned; it's not exactly nice, but not inherently cruel.
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BTW, check out the other clip.
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Sneaky! Adding another video after posting! Mostly, dead on. Except the clip at the very beginning, with the slaughterhouse guy using his foot to get a cow's (well, more likely a steer's) head turned; it's not exactly nice, but not inherently cruel.
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