their first ever contact with an open water source – before having their throats slit as a method of 'humane' #slaughter.

When #AnimalJusticeProject began investigating the duck industry in 2019, 15 million ducks were slaughtered annually. Today, 9 million ducks are killed in the UK. #DuckFarming is #declining, and we must only stop campaigning once we see this industry ceasing to exist.
This is the cold-hearted reality of the commercial duck 'meat' industry.

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> Integrated rice and duck farming is practiced in parts of Japan and China (Furuno, 2001). Weeds and insects are consumed by the ducks, manure from the ducks is returned to fertilize the rice, and humans harvest both ducks and rice at the end of the crop cycle.
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=92664AF90FBD42F8E64BAB05D2341516
#Japan #RiceDuckFarming #DuckFarming #AgroEcology #StephenGliessman #Gliessman