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16 December 2019

"I Feel So Bad For Those Turkeys Hauled on Freezing Nights"

The Letter to the Editor that follows this Introduction was written by Shane
Zoglman and published Nov. 20, 2019 by The Dubois County Herald in Indiana, a
mid-Western state with a large poultry and egg industry. In granting permission
to UPC to share his letter with our readers, Shane added some information about
his own evolution:

Howdy, sure, post away. For some history, back when I was a teenager, and didn't
have any good examples or guidance in the form of grownups, I worked for about 4
years on a chicken farm, that is, an egg farm, gathering eggs from the
mega-sized houses, taking out the dead and crippled chickens and also taking out
the old ones, loading them on semis and putting the new young birds in the
cages.

I also did a few part time jobs of working for a farm where I helped load
turkeys into the semis. I have to say I didn't think about the animals'
suffering, it just didn't enter my mind. So I am someone who has seen both sides
and has changed a lot over the years. The thing I do not understand is people
that never wake up. I think a big help in my waking up to animal cruelty was
stumbling onto the Shark Online YouTube channel years ago. I had been to a
couple rodeos as a kid, but again, never was aware of the cruelty as I see it
now after seeing their videos of rodeo cruelty.

These days I do not buy guns and ammo to kill animals with. I buy binoculars to
enjoy watching them with, and instead of putting effort into killing, I put
effort and money into taking in animals that need a home as well as trying to
spread some of the message in my own way that things need to change.
- Shane Zoglman


Here is Shane's letter in The Dubois County Herald, Nov. 20, 2019:
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Protect turkeys in trucks from frigid temps

November 20, 2019

To the editor:

Well it is wintertime in Dubois County again and once again the turkey
manufacturing industry has done nothing to alleviate the suffering of turkeys
being trucked down the highways at night in open cages, going 60-mph with no
protection from the horrific freezing cold.

The profiteers of the turkey manufacturing industry cannot be bothered to spend
a few bucks to lessen the cruelty they inflict on their product. After all, a
healthy profit margin is what life is all about, right?

After their freezing cold, 18-wheeled torture trip, many of the turkeys are
thrown still alive into boiling hot water. Then they are sold and shipped to
China, where most turkeys "manufactured" in America end up. It's so great that
China gets the food and people in Dubois County get the pollution, the stink and
the humanity-degrading, low-paying jobs of inflicting cruelty on animals while a
few rich people at the top get the money.

What does it say that Dubois County has so many churches and so many Christmas
decorations and so many people that claim to be Christians and yet so much
unnecessary horrific animal cruelty and no complaint of it, or effort to do
anything to stop it?

You cannot look at humans in middle America and convince me that monsters do not
exist. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

- Shane Zoglman
Jasper

Dubois County Herald:
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