Home
|
What's New?
|
News Releases
|
Action Alerts
|
PoultryPress
|
Resources
|
Merchandise
|
Links
|
E-mail
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.
"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
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
See Also:
AVMA
Debeaking
Forced Molting
Experimental Research
Free Range
Kaparos
Poultry & Egg Industry
Poultry Diseases
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
![[pdf]](/pics/pdfdoc.gif){kind=small}