Slaughterhouses don't have glass walls for a reason. But these stories need to be told.

Chickens are being boiled to death in slaughterhouses across the country, right under the noses of USDA inspectors.  

We’re appalled, and we know you will be, too. 

Even when everything goes to plan, chickens suffer immensely during the typical slaughter process: they’re hung upside down, stunned, cut, and bled to death. But when the process fails, they may die instead in a scalding tank meant for feather removal.

USDA inspectors see it happen—routinely.  

At a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, one inspector prevented seven “live, conscious, uncut birds” from boiling to death by pausing the kill line. He noted, “If USDA had not found this noncompliance, loss of process control would have persisted in the slaughter process.” In plain English—if he hadn’t intervened, birds would have continued to boil to death as they sped through the out-of-control system.

Meanwhile in Arkansas, an inspector counted ten “red birds” (i.e., chickens boiled alive) emerging from the scalding tank. 

And in Mississippi, an inspector “noticed a couple of birds that went into the scald tank alive… vigorously flapping their wings without evidence that their necks had been cut.”

The reports go on and on. Behind every citation, there’s a thinking, feeling creature who died writhing in a vat of scalding water. And for each of them, there are many more chickens whose deaths by scalding are never witnessed.

Inspectors’ reports show that live-shackle slaughter fails far too often, and chickens die horrific deaths when it does.  

But together we can use these eyewitness accounts to expose the cruelty and demand an end to live-shackle slaughter. 

Right now, major players in the food industry are on high alert because, thanks to the efforts of the Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary, the USDA has finally agreed to proactively disclose these records to the public. That gives us a window of opportunity to run a pressure campaign against food industry heavyweights, to demand an end to the worst abuses of chickens.

Your urgent gift to our campaign will help us reach the industry decision-makers who, with the flourish of a pen, could put an end to live-shackle slaughter. Will you join us right now—while they’re anxiously feeling the heat?

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Together, we can put a stop to this. Thank you for all you do for animals.

Vicky Bond
President

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