United States

60% of egg-laying hens in the US are raised in battery cages.[S]
320 million male chicks in the US egg industry are culled annually on their first day of life.[S]
Each year, over 500 million broiler chickens (=chickens raised for meat) die on US farms before slaughter from disease, organ failure, and neglect.[S]

Every year over 330,000 pigs die during transport to slaughterhouses in the US, and an additional 800,000 are unable to walk on arrival.[S]
In the US over 97% of sows and gilts are impregnated via AI.[S]
Around 60% of sows in the US are kept in gestation crates during birth and nursing.[S]
Over 97% of sows and gilts in the US are housed in facilities with no outside access.[S]
Over 99% of grower/finisher pigs in the US are housed in facilities with no outside access.[S]
86% of pigs in the US are stunned using CO₂ gas chambers.[S]

Dairy

16-46% of dairy cows in the US suffer from lameness.[S][S][S]
25% of US dairy cows suffer from mastitis.[S]
89.3% of US dairies use artificial insemination (AI) to impregnate dairy cows, with 43.7% using it exclusively.[S]
33% of US dairy cows have their tails docked (cut), and only 5.1% of those cows received analgesia or anesthesia during the procedure.[S]
Calves are disbudded or dehorned on 94.3% of US dairies, with only 28.2% of those dairies using analgesics/anesthetics.[S]
65.6% of dairy calves in the US are separated from their mothers immediately after birth without any opportunity to nurse, and overall 97.4% of dairy calves in the US are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of birth.[S]
80% of lactating dairy cows in the US have no access to pasture.[S]

Beef

88% of beef cattle in the U.S. are castrated,[S] with 80% of farms reporting no use of any pain relief.[S]
21% of the US commercial beef supply comes from the dairy sector.[S]

75.1% of farms in the US castrate male lambs,[S] typically without pain relief.[S][S]

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