| Fall '96 Poultry Press | |
| ACTION ALERT * ACTION ALERT * ACTION ALERT | |
| San Francisco Needs Your Help! | |
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The San Francisco Animal Welfare and Control Commission has bravely
taken up a heated battle to ban the keeping and sale of chickens, fish,
turtles, and other animals at food markets. San Francisco's Chinatown,
local farmers markets, and Fisherman's Wharf conduct wholesale slaughter
of animals on the premises and sell millions of live animals for home
slaughter. Chickens, baby chicks, ducks, quails, doves, pheasants,
turtles, fish, and other living creatures are packed in filthy containers
without food or water. Fish have been documented lying on their sides
desperately trying to breathe in nearly empty water trays. Live birds are
sold with their feet bound together with twist ties and thrown into
plastic bags to be taken home and killed--often by children--in whatever
manner the buyer chooses. At the markets, frogs are skinned alive, fish are scaled alive, and turtles have their shells cut off while they are alive. | |
| What Can I Do? |
Please write a short note expressing your dismay that a city named
for the patron saint of animals--St. Francis-- would condone this cruelty
for any reason. Politely urge a ban on the keeping and sale of animals in
live markets. You might mention that your future vacation plans had
included San Francisco but now you just don't feel good about it. Address
your letters to:
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