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>>mutilated without anesthetic
>not true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beak_trimming
Beak trimming, a form of mutilation in which the beaks of farmed birds are partially removed, as birds become highly stressed in high density environments and will try to cannibalize each other. It is almost universally practiced in US poultry farms (except in free-range ones) and is legal everywhere on Earth except for parts of Northern Europe. It is never performed with anaesthetic, and is known to cause chronic pain (B.O. Hughes and M.J. Gentle, 1995)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(animal)
Tail docking, a form of mutilation in which the tails of of pigs are cut off, always without anaesthetic (except in the EU where regulation requires it), for similar reasons (pigs are stressed out by factory farm conditions and try to compulsively bite each other's tails. Tail docking is extremely common worldwide, and nearly universal in the United States except in California where it was banned by Prop 12 in 2018. Besides the obvious acute pain of having ones tail cut off, it is known to cause chronic pain through hyperalgesia, which is an exaggerated response to noxious stimuli in the affected area (C. Larrondo and H. Bustamante, 2023). It was also regular practice for dairy cattle in the US until it was phased out during the 2010's after new evidence indicated it did not improve milk hygiene as previously believed.

Other mutilations without anaesthetic performed on farm animals in the USA and other developed countries include: castration in pigs and cattle (however, in 22% of cases in the US cattle receive anaesthetic before castration, pigs never do), ear cropping and teeth clipping in pigs, and dubbing/desnooding chickens/turkeys (removing their wattles, the fleshy little red thing on their heads). All of this information is available on wikipedia, or you could go to the library and check out a textbook on poultry science or animal welfare and read it for yourself. Or you could ask a farmer. Or you could use common sense and realize that painkillers are not free and farmers are not giving away tens of thousands of dollars to help animals for no reason and the fact that you assumed without evidence that they did betrays an infantile understanding of both the food system and of economics in general.

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