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The post claims the draft rules “will impact hundreds of millions of workers & animals.” In the context of “America’s slaughterhouses,” the relevant scale for workers is the U.S. meat/poultry processing workforce, which is orders of magnitude smaller than “hundreds of millions.”

• Workers: An industry economic study release from the Meat Institute states that the meat and poultry processing industry “provides 584,000 jobs” (hundreds of thousands, not hundreds of millions). Separately, BLS data for the broader food manufacturing subsector shows total employment around 1.78 million (still nowhere near hundreds of millions), reinforcing that the workforce involved in these industries is far below the claim.

• Animals: USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Poultry Slaughter 2024 Summary reports 9,460,458 (1,000 head) young chickens slaughtered in 2024—i.e., about 9.46 billion chickens—plus additional categories (turkeys, etc.). That’s far above “hundreds of millions” of animals.

Given these official/industry figures, the statement’s magnitude (“hundreds of millions of workers & animals”) does not match the real scale for either group in the U.S. slaughter/processing system.