"Broiler" Chickens - United Poultry Concerns

"Broiler" Chickens

Photo: Carol McCormick

At the slaughterhouse, birds may wait in the trucks from one to 9 hours or more depending on killing and processing speed. These chickens fell off the truck onto the cement loading dock at Townsend's chicken slaughter plant in Millsboro, Delaware.
(From UPC Spring-Summer 2011 Poultry Press)

Kokun and Potpo were rescued from a Perdue
chicken house before they ended up like this...

or this...

Photo By: David Harp

The story of the little chicken named Viva who started it all. . . .
(Also in Winter 2004-2005 PP)
Chickens are great companions. If only people knew how smart and lovable they can be.
UPC Chickens Brochure Now Available in Spanish! 24 June 2011
DECOMPRESSION: A New Way to Torture Chickens & Turkeys to Death 28 April 2011
(Also in UPC Spring-Summer 2011 Poultry Press)
06/02/10: New Hatchery Video Shows the Miseries Forced on Newly-Hatched Birds
10/09/08: “What Wings Are For” - The Story of Ruby and Ivy
1/22/08: Suffering of Chickens Bred and Raised for Meat
12/15/06: EU chicken welfare talks collapsed

12/12/06: Jane – one tiny chicken foot. . . .

9/23/06: “42-Day Wonders,” Washingtonian magazine, September 2006, pp. 66-79

Pecking Order

9/11/06: Washingtonian Magazine Cites United Poultry Concerns on the Chicken Industry

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

2/17/06:The Gestapo of the Human Spirit

10/13/05: UPC President Karen Davis Speaks Out Against Chicken Houses in Northampton County, Virginia – Home of United Poultry Concerns

5/31/05: Tyson Chicken Torture: UPC Letter and Action Alert: Please Write!
11/05/04: New Undercover Investigation of Perdue Farms, Including Video
7/20/04: KFC SUPPLIER ACCUSED OF ANIMAL CRUELTY
6/25/04: UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OF GANGRENOUS DERMATITIS IN POULTRY HOUSES
5/17/04: BBC UNDER FIRE FROM POULTRY BODY
5/17/04: POULTRY LITTER HARBORS AGENTS THAT GENERATE ANTIBIOTIC MULTI-RESISTANCE
5/08/04: US/UK "BROILER" CHICKEN WELFARE
12/19/03: Compassion In World Farming's Court Case
Regarding Factory Farming of Broiler Chickens, December 2003.
11/28/03: U.K. High Court Rejects Claim Against Chickens' Suffering
11/12/03: Factory Farming Needs to End (by Virgil Butler)
Inside the Chicken Industry
10/29/03: Chickens Have Gotten Bigger With Demand for Easy-to-Prepare Meals
10/07/03: Washington Post Article on New USDA Poultry Categories
9/040/3: KFC’s Tortured, Crippled, Suffering Chickens Speak Out for Chickens on World Farm Animals Day, October 2
7/14/03: Human Health and Animal Welfare Will the McDonald’s policy cure cruelty to chickens?
04/09/03: Birds Factory-Farming Plight
04/01/03: United Poultry Concerns Calls on Tyson Foods, KFC, and the National Chicken Council to Improve Bird Welfare and Set Policies Prohibiting Deliberate Cruelty to Chickens
UPC’s letters to Tyson Foods, KFC, and the National Chicken Council
2/24/03: Formal Complaint, Whistleblower Tell of Deliberate Torture of Birds at Tyson Plant
1/28/03 Australian Broiler Chicken Rescue
Crippled Chickens Choose Pain Relief
"Broiler" Chicken Skeletal Problems in the U.S.
"Welfare Problems of Meat-type Chickens"
Kapparot "Broiler" Chickens
The Plight of Poultry
4/22/2002: Undercover Campaigners Expose Factory Chicken Suffering
5/23/2002: The Pawtucket Times: Poultry slaughter sparks outcry in Puerto Rico (external link)

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