Re: SAVED! Chickens rescued from factory farm

alan holmes wrote:
"Campaign for Fresh Air" <letsstandup2bullies@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:56pit3ld8go6lpek909p5sl1h9f0jf265v@xxxxxxxxxx
> SAVED! Chickens rescued from factory farm
>
> Six sick and ailing chickens were rescued from an intensive 'broiler'
> shed and taken to a vet last week during the course of an Animal Aid
> undercover investigation into modern broiler bird production. Sadly,
> one of the six has died, but a second is beginning to improve and the
> rest are recovering well.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/36hr5t
> Sick chickens freed from 'hellhole' shed
> Posted 10 March 2008
> Six sick and ailing chickens were rescued from an intensive 'broiler'
> shed and taken to a vet last week during the course of an Animal Aid
> undercover investigation into modern broiler bird production.
>
> The national campaign group had made three previous visits to the
> 30,000-bird capacity unit, which is typical of such establishments
> across Britain. The farm held a total of more than 150,000 birds.
>
> The visits were conducted in order to film the alarmingly swift
> 'progress' of the birds from lively chicks to bloated, lethargic and
> virtually immobilised inhabitants of a shed that - because of their
> rapid growth - now offered them virtually no room in which to move.
>
> On the last visit, the birds were still only 39 days old. Yet, within
> three days, they were to be loaded onto lorries and taken to a killing
> factory.
>
> Shed records showed that about 1,500 chickens had died or been
> 'culled' within the unit. Despite the victims being removed daily by
> workers, numerous dead birds were filmed by the national campaign
> group. Some were heaped into bins, others were found on the shed
> floor.
>
> Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have
> recently drawn welcome attention to the suffering of broiler chickens.
> But their 'solution' has been to promote so called 'high welfare'
> production systems. These offer the birds a little more space, or make
> use of chickens selectively bred to grow more slowly in an attempt to
> reduce the burden on their leg joints and lungs. In a recent letter to
> Jamie and Hugh, Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler argued that 'high
> welfare' systems 'can only ever have a marginal impact' and that the
> 'fundamental problem is the commodification of these birds. Animal Aid
> believes that it is cruel and immoral to treat animals as commodities,
> which is why we promote the non-animal diet.'
>
> The shocking filmed evidence Animal Aid has gathered on our recent
> multiple visits to the broiler farm reveals precisely what happens
> when animals are treated as commodities.
>
> Says Animal Aid Head of Campaigns Kate Fowler-Reeves, who led the
> undercover team:
>
>
> 'Witnessing so many animals suffering without any hope of release was
> overwhelming. Dead and dying birds littered the sodden floor, while
> live ones limped and fell over them. This terrible existence is
> endured by hundreds of millions of birds every year in this country
> alone. But for five of the six birds we were able to remove, there
> remains hope. One girl - who we found huddled and dehydrated beneath a
> feed dispenser - sadly did not survive. But another, who was found
> sprawled across the shed floor, gasping for breath, has responded well
> to treatment and is slowly recovering her strength. The other four had
> legs and joints so painfully inflamed that they could not stand or
> walk, but over the weekend ventured into the sunlight for the very
> first time in their lives. For these birds, it's a happy ending; but
> for the 30,000 who shared a shed with them, there was yet more
> suffering to endure. Sick, lame and distressed, these birds - who are
> just 42 days old - were sent to slaughter.'
>
> Notes to Editors
> Watch a film of the investigation and of the rescued chickens in their
> new home.
> http://tinyurl.com/2s553c
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3csd8n
>
> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_factory/ALL/1748//
>
> The poultry industry is divided into two main sectors: egg and meat
> production. Laying hens are a strain bred specifically for high volume
> egg production. 'Broiler' chickens have been manipulated, through
> selective breeding techniques, to make them grow at around twice their
> natural rate. They grow so big and so fast that their legs are unable
> to support their weight and they frequently collapse. Broilers are
> slaughtered at just six weeks of age - when they are still immature.
>
> Around 855 million chickens are slaughtered annually in the UK for an
> industry worth about £2bn a year. Approximately 95 per cent of these
> birds are intensively farmed inside huge sheds. By the end of the
> growing cycle, each bird has only 0.5 square ft of floor space and
> must push his or her way through a solid mass of other chickens to
> reach food and water points. Because serious leg problems are endemic,
> many die in the attempt.
>
> They are also vulnerable to heart attacks, septicaemia, and to fatty
> livers and kidneys. They additionally suffer a high incidence of
> deformities, caused by arthritis, together with the stress of carrying
> so much weight on young bones. Nearly one-third have difficulty in
> walking or cannot walk at all, despite the fact that many of the
> weaker birds are 'culled' inside the sheds.
>
> Many broiler chickens also die from ascites: their growth rate is so
> rapid that their heart, lungs and circulatory system struggle to
> maintain sufficient oxygen levels. This results in breathlessness and
> distended abdomens caused by a build-up of yellow or bloodstained
> fluid. Respiratory or heart failure kills one in 20 birds.
>
>


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What the *** has this to do with vegetarians?

Nothing at all Alan but Pete doesn't give a sh**. He cross posts, under all sorts of names, because he needs the attention. The nymshifting is presumably partly to avoid the kill filters and partly to annoy.


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