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Video: Dead on arrival

Jul 30, 2015

With temperatures of over 30°C in Ontario, millions of farm animals are nonetheless being transported in these extreme weather conditions. They suffer unimaginably of heat and dehydration, many of them come to the slaughterhouse "dead on arrival" (DOA). The ones who survive the journey are treated worse at the slaughterhouse with more use of electric prods to get the exhausted pigs off the trucks.