{"id":1133018,"name":"Respondents who consider a farming practice very unacceptable, weighted to match US demographics","unit":"","createdAt":"2026-01-14T13:31:36.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-18T09:28:09.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2025-2025","datasetId":7320,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"counts_weighted_very_unacceptable","catalogPath":"grapher/survey/2026-01-13/acceptability_of_us_farming_practices/acceptability_of_us_farming_practices#counts_weighted_very_unacceptable","descriptionShort":"Counts are weighted by age, gender, race, income, and region to match US Census demographics.","type":"float","dataChecksum":"13658527281161121266","metadataChecksum":"7944444946133973318","datasetName":"Public Acceptability Of Standard U.S. Animal Agriculture Practices","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-01-13","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Very unacceptable","numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"titlePublic":"Respondents who consider a farming practice very unacceptable, weighted to match US demographics","topicTagsLinks":["Animal Welfare"]},"descriptionKey":"- Survey participants were asked about the acceptability of 12 standard farming practices in the U.S. The responses were categorized into five levels: 'Very acceptable', 'Somewhat acceptable', 'Neither acceptable nor unacceptable', 'Somewhat unacceptable', and 'Very unacceptable'.\n- Weighted counts are adjusted by age, gender, race, income, and region to match U.S. Census demographics.\n- List of farming practices considered, as described in the survey:\n  * Keeping chickens inside a barn with no outdoor access and with less than one square foot of space per bird.\n  * Growing chickens to reach market weight size by 47 days, leading to difficulties with walking and standing.\n  * Hanging live chickens upside down by their legs before stunning them in electrified water, slitting their throats, and finally submerging them in boiling water.\n  * Castrating new-born calves by surgically removing the testicles, almost always without anesthesia or pain-killers.\n  * Removing calves' horn buds (undeveloped horn tissue before it grows into a visible horn) using a knife or hot iron, sometimes without anesthesia or pain-killers.\n  * Permanently separating calves from their mothers immediately after birth.\n  * Cutting the beaks off new-born chickens, almost always without anesthesia or pain-killers.\n  * Killing new-born male chicks who can't lay eggs by use of meat-grinders.\n  * Keeping chickens in cages with 67-86 square inches of space per bird (smaller than a standard sheet of letter paper).\n  * Keeping pigs in cages which prevent them from turning around for several weeks.\n  * Killing pigs in gas chambers by use of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas.\n  * Cutting the tails off new-born piglets, almost always without anesthesia or pain-killers.","dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2025}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":372393,"name":"Calves are permanently separated from their mothers at birth","code":null},{"id":372391,"name":"Calves' horn buds are removed with a knife or hot iron, sometimes without pain relief","code":null},{"id":372388,"name":"Chickens are bred to grow fast and struggle to walk and stand","code":null},{"id":372392,"name":"Chickens are kept in cages, with less room than a sheet of paper per bird","code":null},{"id":372394,"name":"Chickens are kept indoors with little space per bird","code":null},{"id":372386,"name":"Live chickens are hung upside down, stunned, have their throats slit, then boiled","code":null},{"id":372384,"name":"Newborn calves are castrated without pain relief","code":null},{"id":372387,"name":"Newborn chickens' beaks are cut off without pain relief","code":null},{"id":372390,"name":"Newborn male chicks are killed in meat-grinders","code":null},{"id":372389,"name":"Newborn piglets' tails are cut off without pain relief","code":null},{"id":372385,"name":"Pigs are kept in cages, unable to turn around for weeks","code":null},{"id":372395,"name":"Pigs are killed in CO₂ gas chambers","code":null}]}},"origins":[{"id":10805,"title":"Public Acceptability Of Standard U.S. Animal Agriculture Practices","description":"Survey of approximately 1,000 U.S. adults on their perceptions of standard animal agriculture practices.","producer":"Faunalytics","citationFull":"Polanco, A., & Troy, A. (2025). Public Acceptability Of Standard U.S. Animal Agriculture Practices. Faunalytics.","urlMain":"https://faunalytics.org/public-acceptability-of-standard-u-s-animal-agriculture-practices/","urlDownload":"https://osf.io/download/47kx9/","dateAccessed":"2026-01-13","datePublished":"2025-11-26","license":{"url":"https://osf.io/vx5jz/overview","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}