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Poultry Slaughter
Slaughter Plant Slaughter
Poultry Slaughter:
The Need for Legislation
(Revised 2011)
Excerpt from Chapter Five, “The Death,” PRISONED CHICKENS, POISONED EGGS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE MODERN POULTRY INDUSTRY by Karen Davis, PhD. New Revised Edition, 2009.
More Chickens May Be Boiled Alive Under USDA's New Proposed Rule
4 January 2013
ASPCA Helps Poultry Producer Expand His Business
UPC Summer-Fall 2012 Poultry Press
ASPCA Funds Poultry Production Operation; Birds treated "with dignity and compassion" so please eat them.
19 June 2012
"Tell USDA to Ensure the Welfare of Chickens and Turkeys at Slaughter" - Animal Welfare Institute
17 May 2012
Privatization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection and Animal Advocacy
11 April 2012
Poultry Slaughter: The Need for Legislation, Revised Booklet, 2011
13 September 2011
DECOMPRESSION: A New Way to Torture Chickens & Turkeys to Death
28 April 2011
(Also in
UPC Spring-Summer 2011 Poultry Press
)
Humane Methods of Poultry Slaughter Lawsuit Dismissed
02/22/10
vimeo.com/upc/freerangechickenslaughter
- 12 January 2012
Ritual Poultry Slaughter
The Need for Legislation and Elimination of Electrical Immobilization
BROKEN WINGS: The Breakdown of Animal Protection in Canada
04/14/09
U.S. Court Upholds Denial of “Humane Slaughter” Coverage to Birds
4/09/08
Suffering of Chickens Bred and Raised for Meat
1/22/08
CRUELTY CHARGES AGAINST POULTRY SLAUGHTERER
5/29/07
Tribute to Virgil Butler, Who Died December 15
12/19/06
UPC Letter in Dec 1 Journal of the AVMA
12/07/06
UPC Letter on Poultry Slaughter In The Baltimore Sun
7/28/06
Less Suffering in Slaughterhouses Needs Welfare Pressure
Spring-Summer 2005 PP
Goose Raising, USDA Farmers' Bulletin 767
6/21/05
Tyson Chicken Torture: UPC Letter and Action Alert: Please Write!
5/31/05
Working Undercover at Perdue: A COK Investigation
1/18/05
URGENT UPDATE: Monstrous Cruelty at a KFC-Supplier Slaughterhouse Your Help Needed!
1/17/05
Scientific Expert Urges Less Cruel Method of Killing Chickens and Other Birds
1/06/05
Poultry Stunning and Slaughter Seminar December 16, 2004 UPC Summary of Welfare Issues Presented by Dr. Mohan Raj
1/05/05
WELFARE, ECONOMIC AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF GAS STUNNING PRIOR TO POULTRY SLAUGHTER
12/08/04
“Slaughterhouse Worker Turned Activist” UPC Talks with Virgil Butler and Laura Alexander
12/08/04
Clarification on Stunner Usage
9/11/04
U.K. "Processor" Deans Foods Adopts Gas-Stunning Procedure
9/11/04
Caught on Tape: Video Fuels Poultry Crusade
9/9/04
Urge Congress to Include Poultry Under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act
7/22/04
Front page of today's LA Times: A Killing Floor Chronicle
12/08/03
Formal Complaint, Whistleblower Tell of Deliberate Torture of Birds at Tyson Plant
2/24/03
Pictures of Townsend's Slaughter Plant
Slaughter Statistics
Average and Total Numbers of Animals Who Died to Feed Americans in 2011
23 May 2012 (Updated 7 Febrary 2013 to include Sea Animals)
Average and Total Numbers of Animals Who Died to Feed Americans in 2009
01/12/11
Average and Total Numbers of Animals Who Died to Feed Americans in 2008
10/22/09
2005 Poultry Slaughter Statistics
6/13/06
USDA stats in general see:
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/
6/13/06
Farmed Animal Slaughter Statistics in 2000 and 2003
10/15/04
STATISTICS: GLOBAL FARMED ANIMAL SLAUGHTER in 2003
9/27/04
Animals Killed for Food in the United States in 2000 (millions)
Mass Destruction of Sick and Unwanted Birds
To halt bird flu outbreaks, researchers perfect poultry killing
6/09/07
United Poultry Concerns Clarifies H5N2 Pathogenicity, Number of Turkeys Killed
04/19/07
Turkeys with Avian Flu Killed with Firefighting Foam in West Virginia
4/18/07
UPC's New Bird Flu Report
2/23/07
Government Approves Firefighting Foam to Exterminate Birds
Winter 2006-2007 Poultry Press
Bird Flu Slaughter AR Advocates Concerned About Probable Culling SATYA Dec. 2006
12/15/06
Mass Depopulation of Poultry as a Disease Control Method
7/11/06
WSPA Comments on USDA-APHIS Draft Avian Influenza Response Plan
6/19/06
Bird Flu Brings Attention to Activists' Concerns
6/06/06
Poultry Industry Experimenters Promote Fire-Fighting Foam as a “Humane” Method of Mass Extermination
3/15/06
On May 17, 2005 the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights and United Poultry Concerns sent the following letter to the state veterinarian of all US states.
6/30/05
Canada’s
Western Producer
Cites United Poultry Concerns’ Opposition
5/18/05
Humaneness of Killing Birds with Carbon Dioxide is Disputed by Science
3/30/05
The Avian Flu Crisis in Canada: Ethics of Farmed-Animal Disease Control
2/28/05
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.
6/27/04
Killing Chickens in a Wood Chipper Discussed in
The Canadian Veterinary Journal
06/18/04
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