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27 April 2020

CNN Reports "Humanely Killed" Chickens: Complain to CNN

This CNN article, published April 26, 2020, inaccurately states that the
"depopulation" of 2 million chickens in Delaware and Maryland means they are
being "humanely killed." Nothing could be further from the "truth seeking" CNN
claims to stand for. Read the article: 2 million chickens will be killed in
Delaware and Maryland because of lack of employees at processing plants:
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"Depopulated" simply means that all the birds in the designated sheds are being
intentionally killed on site, or are being trucked, dead or alive, to rendering
plants, instead of being sent alive to a standard commercial slaughtering
facility.

The poultry industry uses three main methods to mass-exterminate thousands and
millions of birds at a time when, for example, a disease outbreak occurs in the
flocks, or, as in this case, there aren't enough workers to slaughter and
process them due to coronavirus-related worker shortages.

The three industry methods of mass-extermination of flocks are ventilation
shutdown, fire-fighting foam, and carbon dioxide poisoning. In the first case,
the birds die slowly of heat stress and suffocation, by being deprived of air in
the sheds with the temperature turned up. In the second case, they suffocate to
death by being smothered under a rolling carpet of fire-fighting foam. In the
third case, they suffocate painfully and slowly to death of carbon dioxide
poisoning, administered to them through hoses in a form that simultaneously
burns and freezes their lungs.

Reports suggest that in this case, the chickens are being mass-killed by
ventilation shutdown. Delaware Public Media reported on April 16: "The
recommended method for depopulating the flocks is closing off the ventilation in
the chicken house . . . which causes the birds to die from hyperthermia." In
other words, the birds slowly bake and suffocate to death. See How to Kill Half
a Million Chickens at Once:
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Depopulating flocks by closing off the ventilation:
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Delaware Public Media:
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It is just as likely that all three methods could be employed - whatever is most
expedient to the industry in keeping with the 2015 U.S. Department of
Agriculture policy guide which states in part regarding contagious disease
outbreaks in flocks:

While CO2 and water-based foam will continue to be the primary methods first
considered in a response, alternative methods will be immediately considered
if these primary methods will not achieve depopulation of infected flocks . .
. within 24 hours. Ventilation shutdown (VSD) is an adjunct method that will
be considered by State and APHIS officials for depopulation of infected
poultry based on the defined policy.

Policy Guide:
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What Can I Do?

Please click on CNN's Feedback link and urge the network to
report accurately on the mass-destruction of the millions of chickens dying
slow, torturous deaths in the poultry sheds on the Eastern Shore of Delaware and
Maryland. The manner of death inflicted on these birds is the opposite of
humane.

CNN Feedback
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Thank you for speaking up for these birds.
- United Poultry Concerns


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the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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