Cooked alive: Transport animals face deadliest temperatures Yet

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Cooked alive: Transport animals face deadliest temperatures Yet

23 December 2019
News
Heat waves aren’t just a people problem. When food, water, shade, and safe transport are scarce, farm animals are often the first ones to suffer.

The story of animals dying – starving and thirsty, stuck in barns, trucks, and pastures, exposed to hotter temperatures than ever with no ability to change habitats – is too often lost to the more human story of air conditioning and shortened shower times.

This year, farm animals around the world face some of the deadliest temperatures on record. For two months, extreme heat threatened the region’s food and water supplies, forcing farmers into a difficult position: pack animals into overheated transport trucks, or leave them in pastures to suffer?