FILE – Workers process chickens at a poultry plant in Fremont, Neb., on Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) The Department of Agriculture announced a proposal to reduce food costs by allowing for increased line speeds in slaughterhouses with birds and pigs. This is being championed as a step towards further economic freedom and reduction of food insecurity. However, an increase in slaughter speed is not the free-market win it is made out to be. In truth, it highlights a grave moral wrongdoing on American soil and exposes how easily big government can strip billions of individuals of their freedoms. Behind the thick, windowless walls of slaughterhouses lies the cruelest injustice in American history: the mass killing of farmed animals. In the U.S., nearly 10 billion land animals are sent there every year to meet a demise one could only describe as a scene from their worst nightmares. Except this is not a dream; this is the real world.…