Experimental Research

The Experimental Use of Chickens and Other Birds in Biomedical and Agricultural Research

2023

• Podcast: The Futuristic Fate of Birds and the Other Earthlings 26 May 2023

2022

• Letters RE: Technician Rejects Ad Exposing Ventilation Shutdown+ Experiments on Helpless Hens @ NCSU 22 December 2022
• NewsBlaze Investigates Student Newspaper Censorship of Animal Cruelty Ad 17 December 2022
• Hold NCSU Chancellor Accountable for Animal Abuse! 15 December 2022
• UPC Letter to NCSU Chancellor Woodson Regarding VSD Experiments 7 December 2022
• NCSU Student Paper Censors Our Chicken Cruelty Ad 6 December 2022
• The Use of Chickens in Agricultural Research: An Eye-Opening Look at Unspeakable Cruelty UPC Summer 2022 Poultry Press
• Ads Urge AVMA to Condemn Ventilation Shutdown-Plus 22 July 2022
• Condemn Killing Birds Like This, Veterinarians Say to the AVMA – Now! 5 July 2022
• UPC president Karen Davis discusses the Use of Chickens in Agricultural Research & Experimentation 5 June 2022
• Scientists Genetically Engineer Mother Hens to Kill Their Own Male Chicks Before They Hatch 29 May 2022 - Aletho News
• Scientists Genetically Engineer Hens to Pass on ‘Killer’ Gene to Keep Male Chicks From Hatching 26 May 2022 - The Defender
• Brutal University Researchers Torture Hens in Ventilation Shutdown Experiments So Millions of Birds Can Die in Agony on U.S. Farms 15 April 2022
• Blurring the Boundary Between Humans and Other Animals 20 January 2022
• A Request: “Pretend to Be More Optimistic” 14 January 2022

2019

• The Science of Delivering Drugs through Chicken Eggs 25 February 2019
• Survey on Genetically Modified Animal Research and Use 21 February 2019

2018

• Should Farmed Animals Be Genetically Modified to Remove Their Capacity to Feel Pain? 10 April 2018
• Should We Genetically ‘Disenhance’ Animals on Factory Farms to Improve Their ‘Welfare’? 7 March 2018

2016

• “BIRDS: The Need For Avian Advocacy” Now Posted! 9 June 2016

2015

• Animal Protection Foundation Sues USDA for Broken Promises and Neglected Birds 4 December 2015 - aavs.org
• Petition Demands Agriculture Secretary Shut Down US Meat Animal Research Center 22 January 2015
• Taxpayer-Funded Research Inflicts Massive Suffering on Farm Animals 20 January 2015

2014

• Animal Personhood: Journal of Evolution and Technology 2014 30 October 2014
• “The Startling Intelligence of the Common Chicken,” Scientific American 30 January 2014

2012

• The Use of Chickens & Other Domestic Fowl in Agricultural Research
  Presented at the Free the Animals-Effective Action Against Vivisection Conference hosted by S.A.E.N. – Stop Animal Exploitation Now! October 27-28, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri. - 22 Octboer 2012
• Leading Animal Ethicists Call for Full Disclosure on Testing 5 October 2012 - www.oxfordanimalethics.com
• Free the Animals - Effective Action Against Vivisection Conference October 27 & 28, 2012 10 September 2012

2011 and earlier

• DECOMPRESSION: A New Way to Torture Chickens & Turkeys to Death 28 April 2011
  (Also in UPC Spring-Summer 2011 Poultry Press)
• Cloned animals miserable, but safe to eat 16 January 2008
• Mass Depopulation of Poultry as a Disease Control Method: Gassing and Firefighting Foam (2006)
• Poultry Industry Experimenters Promote Fire-Fighting Foam as a “Humane” Method of Mass Extermination 15 March 2006
• Write to Harper’s Magazine – but read the article first! 31 January 2005
• Urge USDA to Regulate Care & Use of Birds, Mice, and Rats 15 October 2004
• Animal Cloning and the FDA, November 2003 (Farmed Animal Watch)
• Genetic Engineering and Cloning of Domestic Fowl
  (FDA Fall 2003 Public Meeting: Cloning Issues Relating to Animals Raised for Food)
• Cloned Chickens, Facially Disfigured Chicks, & Blinded Hens (Winter 2002 PP)
• Daily Times: Poultry industry not ready for cloning 18 January 2002
• The Ethics of Genetic Engineering and the Futuristic Fate of Domestic Fowl (1996)
• Red Contact Lenses for Chickens: A Benighted Concept (1992)

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