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What's Wrong with ‘Humanely Raised’ Poultry and Eggs?

From UPC United Poultry Concerns
July 2023

A report covering several investigations of Petaluma Poultry published by DxE show scenes of sick, crippled, dying and dead chickens living in filth and being treated by workers with extreme cruelty. Petaluma Poultry is not an isolated case in an industry targeting customers willing and able to pay high prices for “humanely-raised” chickens as opposed to “factory-farmed” birds.

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On June 13th the animal advocacy organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) rescued and reported their removal of nineteen chickens from trucks delivering the 6-week old birds to a slaughterhouse in Sonoma County owned by Petaluma Poultry, a subsidiary of Perdue Farms. Petaluma Poultry markets its chickens as “free-range” and “organic” under brand names like Rocky and Rosie.

A report covering several investigations of Petaluma Poultry published by DxE the same day of June 13th shows scenes of sick, crippled, dying and dead chickens living in filth and being treated by workers with extreme cruelty. The report includes veterinary diagnoses of Petaluma Poultry chickens from several locations infected with zoonotic bacteria (transmissible to humans) in their blood and other body parts.

Petaluma Poultry is not an isolated case in an otherwise "truthful industry" targeting customers willing and able to pay high prices for "humanely-raised" chickens as opposed to "factory-farmed" birds. 

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Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.

 

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