Nearly half a million chickens boiled alive - Send a message today to help protect birds.
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Chickens, turkeys, ducks, and other birds classified as poultry account for 98 percent of all animals slaughtered in the United States.
But, because the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) exempts these birds from the protections of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and refuses to establish humane handling regulations under the Poultry Products Inspection Act, many of them endure unimaginable suffering and terror during their final moments of life.
This includes nearly half a million chickens who are boiled alive in U.S. slaughterhouses every year when they are dropped, fully conscious, into tanks of scalding water!
Farm Sanctuary is demanding that the USDA take immediate action to stop the abuses of these poor birds. Will you add your voice to our call?
Please send a message urging US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to extend critical protections to farm birds under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and Poultry Products Inspection Act.
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Here at Farm Sanctuary, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese can live long, healthy lives. Some of them celebrate their 10th birthday with us! But most of the 9.6 billion farm birds killed every year in this country are allowed just 42 days of life.
That's certainly the terrible end that awaited Tilly, if fate hadn't intervened. Tilly has a cross beak, which means her upper and lower beaks don't align properly. We believe Tilly was likely abandoned because of her condition-she requires more care than most farmers would invest.
Luckily, Tilly escaped the farming industry and eventually made her way to Farm Sanctuary, where she has blossomed into a confident, friendly chatterbox who is loving the new life she has received-thanks to caring friends like you!
Farm Sanctuary not only rescues and shelters farm animals in need like Tilly, but we also mobilize passionate animal lovers like you to demand an end to the terrible cruelty taking place in America's farming industry-including the hideous abuses in slaughterhouses. Speak out for better protections for birds like Tilly-please send a message to the USDA today.
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More than a dozen years ago, the USDA proclaimed that bird welfare was a "high priority." But since that time, the agency has not produced a single regulation to stop the rampant and abhorrent abuse of birds in slaughterhouses across the country.
And every sick or injured animal Farm Sanctuary rescues from unthinkable cruelty is living proof that the USDA is terribly failing farm birds.
I know you agree that it is long past time for the USDA to start doing its job and stop putting the lives of farm birds in the hands of an industry that cares so little about their welfare.
That's why I'm asking you, as a caring friend to all farm animals, to help us drive action to protect these birds.
Please join us in demanding that the USDA step up its oversight of factory farms and slaughterhouses-and finally end the merciless and unregulated killing of birds.
Thank you for refusing to be silent about factory farm cruelty.
Yours for farm animals,
Gene Baur
President and Co-founder
P.S. Birds just like Tilly will continue to suffer and die in pain-until people like you and me help put a stop to it! Please help us demand better for these birds by sending a message to the USDA today. Thank you!
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