Poultry Slaughter
Slaughter Plant Slaughter Slaughter Statistics Mass Destruction of Sick and Unwanted Birds
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.
- Horrible "High-Priced" Chicken Suffering and Slaughter in Los Angeles: TAKE ACTION! 2 September 2022
- The Humane League: Insider Proof of Chicken Slaughterhouse Torture 24 May 2022
- My New Short Video: Saving Everley the Hen from the Chicken Slaughter Line 5 May 2022
- My first job was slitting the throats of chickens at a slaughterhouse. It changed me forever 5 April 2022
- PRE-SLAUGHTER ELECTRICAL SHOCK IS NOT “STUNNING” 27 November 2021
- Slaughterhouse Workers, Farmed Animals, and Animal Advocates: Can There Be Justice For All? 28 July 2020
- “Disregarded” Shows the Plight Chickens Face 24 April 2020
- “Dirty Chicken,” The Atlantic, Nov. 1990 Prompts Letter from United Poultry Concerns President Karen Davis, Feb. 1991 13 May 2019
- USDA Allows Animal Neglect and Abuse at Poultry Slaughter Plants, January 2019 Independent Media Institute
- Stress and Death for Chickens in Transport Cages. . . Pilgrim’s Pride 18 July 2018
- “Slaughter-Free Flesh for Humanity” 10 January 2018
- Investigative Report: How Common Is Male Chick Grinding In America? 16 September 2017
- Pet Food, Bird Shredding & Embryo Sexing: Behind the Scenes 7 September 2016
- Tyson Caught Abusing Chickens – Again! 26 May 2016
- How many turkeys do we kill for Thanksgiving? 18 November 2015 - www.countinganimals.com
- Tyson Employees Torture Chickens Mercy For Animals’ Latest Investigation, 28 October 2015
- Demand Chicken Slaughter Company Be Punished for False Advertising 12 April 2015
- Gassing “Spent” Hens to Death with Carbon Dioxide: Follow-Up to “The End of Hens” 6 January 2015
- The End of Hens: Inside a “Spent Hen” Slaughterhouse. 6 January 2015
(Also in UPC Spring 2015 Poultry Press) - Hurting Animals Humanely - Two Views 21 August 2014
- Pilgrim's Shame: Chickens Buried Alive Undercover Investigation by Compassion Over Killing, 25 June 2014
- The Chicken Caucus ducks legislative restraints 21 April 2014
- USDA: Time to Stop the Chicken Industry From Boiling Birds Alive, March 3, 2014 4 March 2014 - huffingtonpost.com
- Jane Velez-Mitchell (CNN-HLN), on poultry slaughter, January 14, 2014 16 January 2014
- Suffering of Farmed Animals. Humane “Processing.” 31 October 2013
- Want to fight salmonella? Don't eat chickens. 30 October 2013
- 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 22 February 2010
- Ritual Poultry Slaughter
- The Need for Legislation and Elimination of Electrical Immobilization
- BROKEN WINGS: The Breakdown of Animal Protection in Canada 14 April 2009
- U.S. Court Upholds Denial of “Humane Slaughter” Coverage to Birds UPC Spring 2008 Poultry Press
- Suffering of Chickens Bred and Raised for Meat 22 January 08
- CRUELTY CHARGES AGAINST POULTRY SLAUGHTERER 29 May 2007
- Tribute to Virgil Butler, Who Died December 15 19 December 2006
- UPC Letter in Dec 1 Journal of the AVMA 7 December 2006
- UPC Letter on Poultry Slaughter In The Baltimore Sun 28 July 2006
- Less Suffering in Slaughterhouses Needs Welfare Pressure UPC Spring-Summer 2005 Poultry Press
- Goose Raising, USDA Farmers' Bulletin 767 21 June 2005
- Tyson Chicken Torture: UPC Letter and Action Alert: Please Write! 31 May 2005
- Working Undercover at Perdue: A COK Investigation 18 January 2005
- URGENT UPDATE: Monstrous Cruelty at a KFC-Supplier Slaughterhouse Your Help Needed! 17 January 2005
- Scientific Expert Urges Less Cruel Method of Killing Chickens and Other Birds 6 January 2005
- Poultry Stunning and Slaughter Seminar December 16, 2004 UPC Summary of Welfare Issues Presented by Dr. Mohan Raj 5 January 2005
- WELFARE, ECONOMIC AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF GAS STUNNING PRIOR TO POULTRY SLAUGHTER 8 December 2004
- “Slaughterhouse Worker Turned Activist” UPC Talks with Virgil Butler and Laura Alexander 8 December 2004
- Clarification on Stunner Usage 11 September 2004
- U.K. "Processor" Deans Foods Adopts Gas-Stunning Procedure 11 September 2004
- Caught on Tape: Video Fuels Poultry Crusade 9 September 2004
- Urge Congress to Include Poultry Under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act 22 July 2004
- Front page of today's LA Times: A Killing Floor Chronicle 8 December 2003
- Formal Complaint, Whistleblower Tell of Deliberate Torture of Birds at Tyson Plant 24 February 2003
- Pictures of Townsend's Slaughter Plant
Slaughter Statistics
- Chick Shredding, Pet Food & Tyson Proteins 22 February 2020
- Chicken Statistics — How Many Chickens Do People Kill? AnimalEthics.org
- 2013: Slaughter of the Innocent UPC Winter 2014 Poultry Press
- Land Animals Who Died per American Carnivore 2012 18 July 2013 - animaldeathcount.webnode.com
- 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 12 January 2011
- Average and Total Numbers of Animals Who Died to Feed Americans in 2008 22 October 2009
- 2005 Poultry Slaughter Statistics 13 June 2006
- USDA stats in general see: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/ 13 June 2006
- Farmed Animal Slaughter Statistics in 2000 and 2003 15 October 2004
- STATISTICS: GLOBAL FARMED ANIMAL SLAUGHTER in 2003 27 September 2004
- Animals Killed for Food in the United States in 2000 (millions)
Mass Destruction of Sick and Unwanted Birds
- Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) – What You Need to Know (A Report by United Poultry Concerns 2007)
- CONTACT THE AVMA TODAY! One Major Way We Can Reduce the Suffering of Animals Raised for Food 27 July 2022
- One Major Way We Can Reduce the Suffering of Animals Raised for Food 26 July 2022
- Why are we accepting the mass slaughter of animals through heatstroke? 6 July 2022
- US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull - then fires almost every worker 28 April 2022 - www.theguardian.com
- “Hard Decisions: How Consumers View Mass Depopulation,” Progressive Farmer 6 May 2020
- News Release: “Depopulation” of Poultry Does Not Mean “Humanely Killed” 29 April 2020
- Pilgrim’s Pride and Koch Foods Pursue Mass Killing and Live Burial of Chickens, Rescuers Arrested 28 April 2020
- CNN Reports “Humanely Killed” Chickens: Complain to CNN 27 April 2020
- Video: Turkeys Being Suffocated with Fire-Fighting Foam 31 January 2017
- Sign This Petition: Stop Gassing the Birds! 20 July 2015
- Asphyxiation cruel to chickens 15 July 2015
- Stop Cruel Roundup and Gassing of Feral Chickens in Honolulu 13 July 2015 (Also in UPC Fall 2015 Poultry Press)
- Turlock Hens, Bird-Flu Killings, Chick Hatchery Disruption, National Animal Rights Day 8 June 2015
- Firefighter’s Foam & CO2: “It’s a total orgy of cruelty” Says United Poultry Concerns in Today’s INFORUM article 25 April 2015 (Also in UPC Fall 2015 Poultry Press)
- To halt bird flu outbreaks, researchers perfect poultry killing 9 June 2007
- United Poultry Concerns Clarifies H5N2 Pathogenicity, Number of Turkeys Killed 19 April 2007
- Turkeys with Avian Flu Killed with Firefighting Foam in West Virginia 18 April 2007
- Government Approves Firefighting Foam to Exterminate Birds Winter 2006-2007 Poultry Press
- Bird Flu Slaughter AR Advocates Concerned About Probable Culling SATYA Dec. 2006 15 December 2006
- Mass Depopulation of Poultry as a Disease Control Method 11 July 2006
- WSPA Comments on USDA-APHIS Draft Avian Influenza Response Plan 19 June 2006
- Bird Flu Brings Attention to Activists' Concerns 6 June 2006
- Poultry Industry Experimenters Promote Fire-Fighting Foam as a “Humane” Method of Mass Extermination 15 March 2006
- 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. 30 June 2005
- Canada’s Western Producer Cites United Poultry Concerns’ Opposition 18 May 2005
- Humaneness of Killing Birds with Carbon Dioxide is Disputed by Science 30 March 2005
- The Avian Flu Crisis in Canada: Ethics of Farmed-Animal Disease Control 28 February 2005
- 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. 27 June 2004
- Killing Chickens in a Wood Chipper Discussed in The Canadian Veterinary Journal 18 June 2004