Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association 9/26/07: ABC News Cites United Poultry Concerns on the Power of Advertising 12/07/06: UPC Letter in Dec 1 Journal of the AVMA 7/18/06: UPC Co-sponsors Newspaper Ad Condemning the AVMA’s Support for Foie Gras 11/17/05: United Poultry Concerns Urges AVMA to Help Birds in Flu Killings 9/27/05: AVMA Rejects Resolution to Oppose Force Feeding Ducks and Geese for Foie Gras, a Diseased Liver Product 8/10/04: Building for the Future by Serving Society 7/30/04: Induced molting position statement revised 7/29/04: Veterinary Association Will No Longer Support Starving Hens 7/19/04: UPC Letter in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 7/8/4: UPC Will Hold Protest at AVMA Philadelphia Convention July 23 6/28/04: AVMA Responds Falsely to New York Times Ad 6/27/04: UPC President and AVAR Veterinary Consultant Publish Replies to Veterinarian Who Calls Wood Chipper a Humane Death for Thousands of Chickens. Letters and Action Alerts Follow. 6/21/04: Today's New York Times Runs Full Page Ad Targeting AVMA Perfidy 6/08/04: Watchdog Discusses the Practices of the American Veterinary Medical Association with UPC President Karen Davis, Holly Cheever DVM, and Professor Peter Singer 2/13/04: When Murdering Animals Make Sense 2/2/04: Veterinary Magazines Cite United Poultry Concerns Leadership on Wood-Chipper Probe into the Role of AVMA Animal Welfare Committee Member 12/18/03: DOES THE USE OF WOODCHIPPING MACHINERY TO DESTROY UNWANTED LIVE CHICKENS VIOLATE CALIFORNIA LAW PROHIBITING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS? 12/11/03: Avian Vet Assn. Defends Gregg Cutler Despite Evidence 12/03/03: Los Angeles Times op-ed on hen wood chipping incident and AVMA farmed animal welfare policy 11/23/03: The Los Angeles Times Has a Great Article on the Wood-Chipper Episode Winter 03: Emperor of the World 11/09/03: Veterinarian Authorized Throwing Thousands of Chickens into Wood Chippers 7/24/03: AVMA Protest Report 7/16/03: United Poultry Concerns Will Join PETA Demonstrators Against the AVMA 5/27/03: The Animal Welfare and Food Safety Issues Associated With the Forced Molting of Laying Birds 8/27/2002: Open Letter from UPC to The American Veterinary Medical Association Spring 2002: Take A Closer Look at the AVMA's Animal Welfare Policies 6/27/2002: Action Alert: Please Urge AVMA to Change Position on Forced Molting Fall 2001: AVMA moves toward revision of forced molting endorsement Fall 99: AVMA Betrays Veterinarian's Oath Summer 99: AVMA Should Have A Consistent Ethic on Animal Care Spring 99:AVMA Refuses To Set Welfare Precedent for Millions of Hens Fall/Winter 98: AVMA May Set Welfare Precedent for Millions of Hens Summer/Fall98: AD Directed at the AVMA Support Forced Molting Winter 97/98: UPC Urges AVMA to oppose forced molting Response to AVMA's false comparison of forced molting and "the natural brooding cycle" AVMA POLICY ON ANIMAL WELFARE AND ANIMAL RIGHTS See Also: AVMA Debeaking Forced Molting Experimental Research Free Range Poultry & Egg Industry Poultry Diseases Poultry Workers Organic Standards Live Markets & Auctions Transport Welfare Problems & Rec. Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail