In addition to legal and veterinary requirements, common decency demands that these chickens-who have suffered day and night in severely crowded, ammonia-ridden sheds and to whom these factory farmers owe their livelihood-be given the quickest, most painless death possible. May we also have your word that workers will confirm that each individual chicken is dead prior to disposal and rapidly destroy any surviving birds in an acceptable and lawful manner? Those who care about these birds’ welfare want to know that poultry industry workers in Pennsylvania are properly trained in the use of containerized gassing, cervical dislocation, and captive-bolt guns to kill these animals as quickly as possible and with the least possible stress. Please secure assurance from Pennsylvania producers that workers will treat birds with respect and be continuously supervised by management. Similarly, caring individuals, including those of us at PETA, request that you confirm that workers in the Commonwealth won’t cut these birds’ throats or decapitate them while they’re conscious or shut off all ventilation in sheds and raise the heat (which is known as “ventilation shutdown plus”) to kill birds slowly and painfully by means of heatstroke and suffocation. Such deaths are particularly terrifying and slow-federal standards allow some chickens to survive foaming for up to 14 minutes.
We urgently seek confirmation from your agency that only killing methods approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association for non-emergencies will be used in Pennsylvania and that this undertaking will be done with appropriate respect and diligence.īecause this is not an emergency situation-in which, say, chickens are suffering and dying because of a disease outbreak or natural disaster-please verify that Pennsylvania facilities will not use water-based foam to smother these birds. PETA understands that Pennsylvania factory farmers have started to kill young chickens because of slaughterhouse closures. We respectfully request your immediate attention. Health authorities confirm that influenza viruses and coronaviruses are zoonotic (transmissible from other animals to humans), and previous influenza viruses originated in pigs and chickens. PETA-whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview-notes that the COVID-19 pandemic responsible for the slaughterhouse closures originated in a meat market. “The law, veterinary guidance, and common decency all mandate that the birds receive the quickest and least cruel death possible.” “These chickens don’t deserve to be tossed into an old wood chipper or struck with a two-by-four, as PETA has documented in other ‘depopulation’ efforts,” says PETA Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations Daphna Nachminovitch. – Following reports that because of slaughterhouse closures, Pennsylvania farmers have started to kill chickens without processing their bodies for human consumption, PETA sent an urgent letter today calling on state veterinarian Kevin Brightbill to ensure that the birds will be killed using only means approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association for non-emergencies. We receive no local, state, or federal funding and are an all-volunteer organization.PETA Calls On State Veterinarian to Ensure That Birds Aren't Smothered, Suffocated, or Decapitated While Still Conscious All of our services are funded by the community. We also provide a home to several non-releasable animals. RRWC currently rehabilitates nearly 2000 animals every year. Tracie holds permits from the PA Game Commission, PA Fish and Boat Commission, and US Fish and Wildlife Service that allows us to provide wildlife rehabilitation services and wildlife education programs. Raven Ridge Wildlife Center was founded in 2015 by Tracie Young, who currently still serves as our director and rehabilitator. Our facilities are not open to the public We are open 8am-6pm every day of the year. We also provide a variety of wildlife education programs. NO DROP-OFFS PLEASE, INTAKES ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Please go to for rehabilators that are permited to so. SONGBIRDS, REPTILES, DEER, BEAR or PIGEONS. We offer rehabilitation services for RAPTORS (Birds of Prey) MAMMALS and WATERFOWL. Raven Ridge Wildlife Center is a wildlife rehabilitation center in Washington Boro, PA.
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