Around 150,000 chickens perished after a fire erupted on a poultry farm in Bando City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Wednesday afternoon and raged on into the evening, destroying three small buildings on the property by 6:30 p.m.
No people were injured, but the buildings that contained around 150,000 birds were razed.
Police said that the blaze continued into Thursday morning with more than 10 fire trucks on the scene.
© News reports
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KallyPygous
120,000 birds in three small buildings? Those birds were lucky to have their misery ended.
smartacus
I can't imagine how 120,000 chicken can fit into three buildings. Conditions on that farm must have been terrible for the birds.
John Shiomi
It's funny because in my town here in japan the same thing happened to a chicken farm. All the birds were toasted. Sad...
ogtob
I smell insurance fraud.
Garrincha
Fowl play?
Apsara
Ah, someone got in with the "fowl play" just before me...
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smithinjapan
Bring the BBQ sauce!!
kraharn
im sorry for the chickens and the people who were supposed to be able to eat them.
Mookoo
Factory farming is incredibly cruel, but profitable. Go to YouTube, and watch the video titled "Meet Your Meat". Narrated by Alec Baldwin.
Fadamor
"Colonel" Harlan Sanders is shedding a tear up in heaven right now.
Here in Virginia and Maryland out on the penninsula, there are massive chicken farms that supply companies like Tyson. I can easily believe the buildings housing the chickens contained 40,000 each. Here's a photo of the inside one of the Maryland houses: http://encarta.msn.com/media_461538418/Maryland_Chicken_Farm.html
Fadamor
Never mind, that link won't work. JT removed some of the underscores, for some reason. (there was one after "media" and one after "Maryland"
Altria
It sucks, but dying in a fire is only marginally worse than what they were going to be put through anyway.
Fadamor
Slowly suffocating in a smoke-filled room would be infinitely more painful than a death rendered in the slaughterhouse.
Apsara
I see it's now 150,000 chickens- the death toll is rising...
sf2k
Odd to report the word "perish" when they were going to be eaten anyway.
aj2o1
burning to death is not funny, even for chickens.
Altria
I hope they catch the basted who did this.
Mittsu
I have heard that numbers of fatalities often inflated to claim more on the insureance policy.
Disillusioned
There was definitely a fowl smell in the air around northern Tokyo on Wednesday night. It resembled roast chicken.
sunny117
Painful death for those who otherwise too were ultimately meant to land between two slices of bread.
But from eco point of view, a big waste of food in these times.
Cicada
So 150,000 chickens were in "three small buildings"? No wonder they perished.
onewrldoneppl
damn, it must've smelled almost as good as when the marijuana storehouse burned down in tokyo, a few months back. smile
Freddy5
50,000 chickens per building? What kind of conditions did they live and die in? Sounds awful.
Insurance fraud? - there may be a nugget of truth in that.
cleo
If you demand cheap eggs and cheap meat, and happily munch on karaage and all the other delicacies the birds end up as, you're at least partly to blame for the profitability of these chicken factories.
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societymike
I for one am very appreciative of these chicken farms and so is my belly and wallet.