Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition. John Robbins

animals will die in transit. It’s a calculated loss. They find it more profitable to absorb the loss due to deaths and injuries than to handle the animals differently. They fully expect to find some of the animals dead on arrival, and they calculate the loss simply as one of the costs of transporting the animals, along with the price of gasoline.

      Most of the deaths are caused by a form of pneumonia known quite appropriately as shipping fever.⁸