Millions of livestock die each year while being transported. Those cases are rarely investigated by the USDA. - Investigate Midwest

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Millions of livestock die each year while being transported. Those cases are rarely investigated by the USDA. - Investigate Midwest

On Aug. 24, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the highway shoulder. Twenty of the cows on board were killed, while another 20 got loose, scattering across the highway and nearby fields, according to records from the Illinois State Police and the Tuscola Fire Department. Several minutes later, one of …