http://thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/352921617?ltl=1109945776 Just click on the link...then go to "petitions" at the top of the page and then click on "turkeys and chickens deserve humane treatment too". Thanks everyone!
The federal law that requires animals to be rendered unconcious or insensible to pain before slaughter does not apply to poultry. The petition is trying to change that. It explains it if you follow the link. thanks
What do you suggest, we hit them with a stick first then kill them. My grandma was a law breaker to I guess she just grabed them by the head and spun them in a circle. My grandpa was bad to he just chopped of their heads and let the headless bodies chase me around and the other chickens watched. I will not tell you about the hogs, cows, rabbits, and the chicken eggs ahhhh. How did I ever make it to this age with family like that? Look folks we have to eat and eat we will, vegan watch out for the chemical fertilizer, oh you eat only naturally grown veggies good I guess that you grow all your own then and hey thats great because that all I ate growing up is what we raised. Pick battles you can win and your efforts will not be in vain. Save a seal, save the rain forrest, save a dollar these are things you can win, saving chickens in our over poulated world is aready a lost cause. They will never drug the chicken before they kill it or the cow or the hog or even the poor little veal calves, there is a battle you can fight veal. I rather eat a deer anyway, and squirrel is pretty good in a stew. Good luck on finding your way and dont make my Mc Chicken cost $10
If it's a lost cause to you then don't sign the petition -simple as that. Preventing and trying to stop animal cruelty in any way, shape or form is not a lost cause to alot of other people..... including myself. *punctuation*
well I thank you Elle for doing your job in protecting our animals, it's nice to know there are some that do care!! have you read my post on foy gras??? I'll post it here if you don't mind.
Are you asking me? Actually I don't. I'm a vegetarian anyway so I don't eat poultry, but no I don't celebrate any holidays. Why?
My family has never celebrated holidays so that is how I grew up. I see no point in starting now...........they don't mean anything to me.
How about Cinco de mayo, this year will be special you know, 05-05-05 This hasnt happend since march 3rd 2003 and that was no holiday and before that sept 9 1999 again no holiday. we live in good times, soon these calenderial beauties will be gone and holidays will be boring again. be in florida and i will be sure you will enjoy them.
I may have to make an exception for cinco de mayo yeah south Fla gets crazzzzy. I'm from miami anyway - gonna try to make it down this summer to see family. If you are still on the forums I'll hit you up.
I read this in vegnews awhile back it shocked me so much that I thought I would share it with everyone. Headline: Activists expose cruelty behind Foie Gras. Every year in the united states nearly half a million ducks are confined, tortured, and slaughtered for their livers. Their livers are then packed and sold as a gourmet food known as Foie Gras. Foie Gras- french for fatty liver- is the liver of a duck that has been grossly enlarged threw cruel forced- feeding. In medical terms this " delicacy" is known as the disease Hepatic Lipidosis. Many people believe Foie Gras is produced only in Europe; but inside the giant sheds of thier factory farms to United States' companies- Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York, and Sonoma Foie Gras in California- Inflict this torture on thousands of ducks daily. In the summer of 2002. A coalitition of animal protection groups requested tours of these facilities. No responses ever came. This led determined animal advocates to begin an investigation into both U.S. Foie Gras producers, fully documenting what goes on behind their closed doors. The investigators spent a year bringing to light the cruelty and abuse of Foie Gras production, then went public to expose the truth about the U.S. Foie Gras industry. Hudson Valley Foie Gras, the larger and older of the two domestic producers, is responsible for eighty percent of the U.S. Foie Gras industry.The corperation is a successor to Commonwealth Enterprises, a Foie Gras factory farm who's cruelty was exposed PETA a decade ago sadly, conditions in which Foie Gras ducks suffer have only gotten worse threwout the last ten years. The stench of feces and death is overpowering even before entering the factory farms. Once inside, the stale fowl air becomes thick, hot, and difficult to breathe. As investigators ventured into the sheds, they encountered tens of thousands of ducks crammed into filthy crouded pens. In these pens, birds too weak to stand are trampled by thier cell mates or left to languish next to corpses. Investigaters documented ducks who could not support thier own weight as they struggled to move themselves from one end of thier small pen to the other. Volnurable in the pens investigaters witnessed two ducks being eaten alive by a rat, too weak to defend themselves. MAny other birds with similar wounds were also ducumented. At Hudson Valley Foie Gras, ducks are increasingly being remove from these horrible cooonditions and being placed into even more despicable surroundings. The industry giant has been confining thier ducks in tiny isolation cages so small the animals can barely move, much less spread thier wings or turn around. These isolation cages are one of the most extreme examples of confinement in factory farming. In the cages of Hudson Valley, investigators found many birds with gaping wounds on thier wings where thier obese bodies chafed against the sides of thier cages. Similarly, investigators documented many ducks who had injured and bloodied thier beaks by slamming them against bars of thier cages as they struggled to move thier necks. Kept immobile, the already suffering birds developed foot infections and bone deformations that leave them in constant pain also at Hudson Valley, investigators found birds covered in thier own blood and vomit. The bars of the isolation cages at Hudson Valley Foie Gras are often stained red with blood. Confinment, stress, and infection also lead to neurological problems on Foie Gras factory farms. In the pens, many ducks pace incessantly while in the isolation cages, they merely shake thier heads for hours at a time. Some are so neaurlogicaly damaged that they cannot hold thier heads up. Investogaters also ducumented the forced feeding process at Hudson Valley Foie Gras and Sonoma Foie Gras. Forced- feeding begins when the ducks are just three months old. From that point on, the ducks have a long metal pipe shoved down their throats three times a day. Each worker is responsible for forced-feeding over a hundred birds. Grabing the weakened, struggling duck by the neck, the worker pries the ducks beak open and thrusts the long metal pipe deep into his or her throat. The process is so inherently rough, and the workers so careless, that the pipe often ripes through the ducks throat tearing open the esophagus and neck. Further, the quantity of food pumped into these ducks, up to a tenth of the birds body weight, is vastly more then the birds would ever consume on thier own. Investigators found corpses of ducks who had sufficated during forced feeding, or whose organs had exploded from the violent over-feeding. Exacerbating these tottures, all ducks kept for Foie Gras production suffer from a lack of access to water. Although it is crucial to a ducks life, on the factory farm water is almost non- existant. During trips to the farms in the winter, Investigators found that what little water the ducks have often freezes. Even when not frozen, the water is so limited that the ducks cannot clear the mucous from the nostril-like holes on thier beaks. This often leads to infections, blindness and death. Inside the sheds, APRL and Gourmetcruelty.com investigators frequently found birds with only gaping holes where thier eyes once were. As many ducks cannot survive this constant deprivation, confinement, and torture, dead birds were a common sight on both farms. Corpses lay everywhere, trash bins filled with the discarded corpses of ducks who could not survive the torture were everywhere at Sonoma Foie Gras. sad testament to the trauma and suffering of the 500,000 ducks exploited annually by the foie gras industry. Each day, tens of thousands of ducks kept prisoner for foie gras production have these tortures inflicted upon them. However we CAN help. A proposed New York state bill to ban the forced feeding of birds for food is foundering in the states committe please write to: The Agricultural Committe of the New York State Senate State Capital Building Albany, NY 12207 Comanding them for thier courage in considering this measure, and asking them to bring S- 5153 to the floor. And please, let people know why you wont eat Foie Gras. Thank you for taking the time to read this*
Ok I do agree that sound like the ducks get a bad shot at life and so do the chickens, veal, just about everything mass produced is given a raw deal. So what do we do? Do we kill off say half of the human population so we wont need so much? I mean here are all of these problems but wheres the answers? Buying used clothes may help, recycling good, but we are talking about trying to change the paterns of millions on millions. That aint going to happen so where is the answer to hunger, housing and the rest of humanities problems. If we all went to live in a tent in the woods and live off the land the land would be depleted quickly. The trees burned off and massive erosion bad water bad air from all the camp fires and death and disorder. So I ask again what is an answer that would work in the next say 100 years? I hate to see any animal suffer and as a past hunter I believe in a quick kill just as if it were a human no pleasure in pain and suffering of another. Precautions should be taken to help the beast but what do you do to a chicken to help it die other than a quick death? I am not trying to be an ass it is I truley dont know what the answer would be.
I get picked on for saying this but oh well... turn the tables... say you were the chicken buying the human how would you feelor say the chicken was buying you!?!? Im not trying to push my views on you everyone feels differently.. but their already giving you their life show them a little respect!!!! this is what I keep saying about people taking to much for grandted......
