Home | What's New? | News Releases | Action Alerts | PoultryPress | Resources | Merchandise | Links | E-mail Poultry & Egg Industry The Plight of Birds in the Poultry and Egg Industry - Revised 2002 06/02/10: New Hatchery Video Shows the Miseries Forced on Newly-Hatched Birds 09/02/09: After Baby Chick Video Goes Viral, Advocates Warn 'Free Range' Not All It's Cracked Up to Be (External Link) 09/02/09: Hatchery Horrors: The Egg Industry’s Tiniest Victims 06/26/09: “Animal Agriculture Boosts Antibiotic Resistance,” The Epoch Times, June 24, 2009 Canada: 04/14/09: BROKEN WINGS: The Breakdown of Animal Protection in Canada 6/05/06: Indecent Eggsposure: How Eggs are Laid in Canada 3/15/06: Poultry Industry Experimenters Promote Fire-Fighting Foam as a “Humane” Method of Mass Extermination 2/17/06: Forced Labor on the Factory Farm 5/17/04: AP: Better Business Bureau Nixes Egg Ads 5/08/04: US/UK "BROILER" CHICKEN WELFARE 10/07/03: Washington Post Article on New USDA Poultry Categories 7/10/03: UPC's Response to the Wall Street Journal's Chicken Catching Machine Article UPC public comments to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture on its proposed “humane” standards for farmed animals. [PDF 640kb] 9/20/2002: UPC Evaluation of Future Trends In Animal Agriculture Symposium See Also: AVMA Debeaking Forced Molting Experimental Research Free Range Poultry Diseases Poultry Slaughter 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