As the boxes get hotter and the air inside more stagnant, and as carbon dioxide is sometimes added, the chickens writhe, gasp, pant, stagger and even throw themselves against the walls of their confinement in a desperate attempt to escape.
This Chicken's entire body heaves as she gasps for air while
being subjected to VSD ventilation shutdown - from Animal Outlook
image c/o United Poultry Concerns.
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MACHIPONGO, Va., Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An ad submitted to
North Carolina State University's student paper Technician was
approved for publication by the marketing department only to be
rejected without explanation by the paper's editorial board the day
before the ad was set to run on December 1.
Titled
They Shut Their Ears to Her Cries as She Died a Merciless
Death, the ad was produced by United Poultry Concerns,
a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and
respectful treatment of chickens and other domesticated birds. The
purpose was to inform students, faculty and staff of inhumane
experiments being conducted on chickens by the Poultry Science
Department in 2016 and continuing. It urged campus residents to
express concern to university Chancellor Randolph Woodson and
Interim Head of the Poultry Science Department, Peter Ferket.
The experiments involved ten hours of torturing chickens slowly to
death in Ventilation Shutdown research of a mass-extermination
procedure referred to as VSD Plus. Hens were placed in individual
see-through isolation boxes and subjected to oxygen deprivation,
extreme heating, and carbon dioxide poisoning in combinations
designed to cause suffocation and heatstroke in the hens whose
voices were muted by the researchers who cavalierly fanned
themselves and drank ice water as they watched the agony they had
arranged.
Recent VSD Plus studies at North Carolina State include injecting
hens with nitrogen. See grant item #5 for full title of this
"injection of nitrogen during ventilation shutdown plus heat"
project funded by USPoultry Foundation in 2022. See
USPOULTRY gives nearly $400,000 in industry research grants.
In A Big Win For Animal Abusers As Student Paper Censors Cruelty Ad
NewsBlaze journalist Martha Rosenberg broke the story on December 5.
She quoted Animal Outlook, the advocacy group that obtained the VSD
footage through a public records request: "As the boxes get hotter
and the air inside more stagnant, and as carbon dioxide is sometimes
added, the chickens writhe, gasp, pant, stagger and even throw
themselves against the walls of their confinement in a desperate
attempt to escape." Read
NCSU Student Paper Censors Our Chicken Cruelty Ad
Citing ethical opposition to the procedure, Rosenberg wrote that "A
group of veterinarians and American Veterinary Medical Association
(AVMA) members who asked the AVMA last summer to remove support for
the mass kill method was ignored."
To alert the public, United Poultry Concerns published two full-page
ads in Philadelphia's largest circulating newspaper Metro
Philadelphia, targeting the AVMA's annual convention in Philadelphia
July 29-August 1. It asked people to urge the AVMA to oppose VSD
Plus as a method to control chronic diseases like avian influenza in
factory-farmed birds whose susceptibility to infection reflects
unnatural breeding and squalid living conditions.
"We think the public has a right to know what is being done to birds
and other farmed animals for the sole purpose of protecting and
advancing agribusiness interests," says UPC President Karen Davis.
Davis continues: "Instead of cleaning up the squalor and eliminating
the debilitating breeding practices, industry prefers to cruelly
destroy tens of millions of birds, pigs, and others at taxpayer
expense through U.S. Department of Agriculture indemnities. As a
government-supported institution, North Carolina State University is
part of a financial system that extends even to the student
newspaper that claims to promote free speech."
Wrote Rosenberg in her NewsBlaze article, "Apparently, lobbyist
requests and the almighty dollar are more powerful than standard
University policy."
About United Poultry Concerns
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens, turkeys, ducks
and other domestic fowl. We hold that the treatment of these birds
in the areas of food production, science, education, entertainment,
and humane companionship situations has a significant effect upon
human, animal, and environmental welfare. We seek to make the public
aware of the ways in which poultry are used, and to promote the
benefits of a vegan diet and lifestyle. We provide information
through our quarterly magazine Poultry Press, our Website at
www.upc-online.org, and our sanctuary in Machipongo, Virginia on the
Eastern Shore. We invite you to join us and support our work.
Founded in 1990 by Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns is the
world's foremost non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the
respectful treatment of domestic fowl. UPC runs a haven for chickens
in Virginia, and also teaches people about the egg and chicken meat
industries, the natural lives of free chickens, pleasures and
benefits of human-chicken companionship, and alternatives to chicken
farming and the use of chickens in education and scientific
experimentation. – Dr. Annie Potts, Chicken, 2012
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Media Contact:
– Alan Gray, NewsBlaze
– Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns, 757-678-7875;
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