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United Poultry Conscerns outraged as Israeli researchers ideas |
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17 Jun 2002
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animal liberation / human liberation |
for the story of featherless chickens, This is for real.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020523/180/1lc1p.html
S. Newswire Press Releases
United Poultry Concerns: Featherless Chicken is Cruel,
Obscene, Absurd
Thu May 23, 3:12 PM ET
To: National Desk
Contact: Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, 757-678-7875 Web site: www.UPC-online.org
MACHIPONGO, Va., May 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following was released today by United Poultry Concerns:
An Israeli researcher is claiming that thousands of naked chickens could be crowded together in filthy, ammonia-filled sheds
awaiting their death the same as feathered chickens. His attitude towards the chickens he is stripping bare in his laboratory is
expressed in his description of one of them as an "ugly beast" (New Scientist, May 21, 2002). However, it is not the chicken who is
the ugly beast. This researcher's work should be rejected. It is not only immoral; it is impracticable.
Chickens have thin skin, and "broiler" chickens have even thinner skin, probably because they cannot manufacture enough skin
cells to cover their overweight bodies, which grow several times faster and larger than normal chickens' bodies. The skin of "broiler"
chickens tears and bruises very easily, and it is very sensitive, even with full plumage. Parent flock females are physically ravaged
within a few months of being locked up in breeder houses with the prematurely aged, hormonally deranged cockerels, who are
constantly mating with them in lieu of normal growth and environmental stimulation.
Hens in battery cages typically lose 40 percent of their feathers within a few months of caged confinement. They develop skin
abrasions and abscesses from constantly rubbing against one another. "Broiler" chickens are raised on filthy ammonia-drenched
litter (rice hulls and excrement). They develop ammonia-burned breasts because the toxic ammonia trapped in the litter burns
through their breast feathers causing painful breast blisters similar to bed sores. The poultry industry has complained for decades
about the "carcass damage" in these birds resulting from the breast blisters, torn skin, bruises, dermatitis, and other skin injuries and
diseases that result from how they are treated and raised.
Previous efforts to "save feed costs" by inflicting trauma and deformity on chickens and turkeys have included burning off their
wings and tails and feeding them slurry through holes cut in their necks. The theory was that they wouldn't have to "waste
energy/feed" in growing these appendages or by pecking. As Joyce D'Silva of Compassion in World Farming told New Scientist
(May 21, 2002) regarding the featherless chicken research, "It's a prime example of sick science and the suggestion that it would be
an improvement for developing countries is obscene."
The only possible positive outcome of this sick science is that it shows the nadir of depravity to which a violent, animal-based diet
leads and thus encourages more people to become compassionate vegetarians.
------ United Poultry Concerns is a non-profit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic
fowl. For more information visit www.UPC-online.org.
i found the above article while perusing through http://www.vegancentral.com/vc/redirect.php?id=1073
for vegan stories.
but basically chickens suffer, o god do they , and to ignore this and ignore their pain when people live
without needing animals to suffer all the time, actually much healthier.
Thank goodness for Free Speech! |
See also:
http://www.upc-online.org/
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