United Kingdom

79% of laying hen flocks in the UK are debeaked.[S]
36% of hens housed in so-called "enriched" cages, and 45-86% housed in non-cage systems in the UK, suffer from keel bone fractures.[S]
28% of eggs sold in the UK are produced in battery cages, and another 7% in non-free range systems considered cage-free.[S]
40-45 million male chicks in the UK egg industry are culled annually on their first day of life, typically by gassing.[S]
Each year, over 80 million broiler chickens die on UK farms before slaughter from disease, organ failure, and neglect.[S]
A comprehensive UK study using over 50,000 broiler chickens found that at an average age of 40 days old, almost 30% of the birds had poor locomotion (movement) ability and over 3% were almost incapable of any movement.[S]

71-85% of pigs in the UK undergo tail docking, typically without pain relief.[S]
Up to 90% of sows in the UK are impregnated via AI.[S]
Only 40% of sows in the UK are "kept outdoors", although only 4% of UK sows will spend their entire lives outdoors.[S][S]
Around 60% of UK sows are kept in gestation crates during birth and nursing.[S]
90% of pigs in the UK are stunned using CO₂ gas chambers.[S]

More than half of calves on UK dairy farms suffer from disease before weaning.[S]
In the UK, on average, over the course of a year, there will be around 40–60 cases of clinical mastitis for every 100 dairy cows in a herd.[S]
90-95% of UK dairy cows are impreganted via AI.[S]
10% of dairy cows in the UK do not have access to pasture.[S]
Around 30% of dairy cows in the UK suffer from lameness.[S]
52% of the cattle killed for beef in the UK originate from the dairy herd.[S]

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