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 Toxic Chemicals Increase in U.S. Poultry Plants 26 April 2013 UPC Correspondence with the National Fire Protection Association 25 January 2013 Pet Chicken Saves Family from Household Fire: Who Will Save Chickens from Fires in Their Houses? 1 January 2013 United Poultry Concerns Seeks Fire Protection for Farmed Animals UPC Winter 2012 Poultry Press Seeking Fire Protection for Farmed Animals: An Update 27 September 2012 UPC & Twelve Other Organizations Appeal to the National Fire Protection Association to Uphold the Association's Action Requiring Fire Protection Systems in Farm Animal Housing Facilities 31 July 2012 News Release: Animal Advocacy Groups Urge National Fire Protection Association to Uphold Decision Requiring Agribusiness to Protect Farm Animal Facilities from Preventable Fires 31 July 2012 Agribusiness Coalition Opposes Fire Safety Controls in Animal Confinement Facilities 19 July 2012 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