60,000 Chickens Died Due To Power Outage

In Cleveland county, NC, about 60,000 chickens died at Greenway Farms last week when the generator connected to the chicken house failed, leaving the chickens without any air from the large fan that also stopped working. The chickens suffocated to death while in extreme confinement and turned into rotting carcasses.

Also, according to PETA, such incidents are more common than we think. Every summer, "chicken-farm operators casually write off losses of birds because of their own deliberate failure to provide or maintain back-up generators or to employ emergency evacuation plans." However, since this happened in Cleveland County, animal cruelty laws also apply to chickens, and PETA has asked the county's district attorney to consider filing animal cruelty charges against the farm owners.

Some might think it's unnecessary to file any charges, because it is just an "accident." But it's important to keep in mind that chickens and all farm animals are living creatures that deserve to be treated as such.. the chickens should not have been confined without any ability to be mobile and cramped together so closely that just a few minutes without fanned-air would lead to a painful death through suffocation. I also question why electricity stopped running in the first place.. and why there are no back-up generators when this incident is not the first of its kind. 

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source: http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13211329

High School Musical's Matt Prokop on Animals

Twenty-years old actor Matt Prokop, who is in High School Musical 3, gives us a few pointers on how to help animals.

Undercover Footage From KFC Supplier

Terrifying, painful deaths for the1 billion chickens killed each year for KFC...

*watch at your own discretion

Update on Dogs Rescued from PLRS

Following the undercover PETA investigation of PLRS, some animals have been rescued from the facilities.

See original post on the investigation here: Animal Testing Exposed: PLRS (North Carolina)

Video description: "The Virginia Beach SPCA and several other animal shelters received dogs that had been used for research and testing purposes following the closure of Professional Research and Laboratory Services in Corapeake North Carolina."

Cute Piglet Goes For A Swim

Too cute to miss out on! This video shows how affectionate and intelligent piggies are, another reason why I can't bear for them to become.... the "pork" we eat.

http://wimp.com/swimmingpiglet

 

 

Bullfighting= Killing Defenseless, Frightened Animals

Up until this year, I have always thought bull-fighting was simply waving a red flag in front of a cow in order to get it to attack. And I thought it was a sport because it was the flag-waver's goal to maneuver himself out of harm's way.

I was so wrong.

Bullfighting is not only cruelty, it is "the most indefensible type of animal abuse" according to SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness). It is an intentional torturing of frightened animals who have no way out of their painful and slow death. Bullfighting involves confusing and frightening the bull so that a matador or several man stab or pierce through the bull's body with sharp weaponry each time there is an opportunity.. until ultimately the bull dies somehow, perhaps bleeding to death.

Bullfighting is not heroic, it is cowardly. According to SHARK, only 10 bullfighters have been killed worldwide in bullfighting for the last 50 years, but the number of bulls that are killed are unimaginable.
Bullfighting is a "blood sport" which ritually kills bulls as a public spectable in regions of Spain, Portugal, southern France, and some Latin American countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting). 

pic source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/spain_moves_tow.php

The "sport" was condemned by the pope in 1567, and one cardinal by the name of John Henry Newman stated: "Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God...there is something so dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power."

See this video of Patricia De León, Latina actress and former Miss Panama, who urges boycotting of bullfighting.

Please spread the word. If you live in a country that practices bullfighting, please listen to your kind, humane heart by not attending or giving monetary support to bullfighting associations.

source: http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000423http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000423

93 Puppies Gassed at NY Puppy MIll

Federal law, as well as New York state law, prohibits kennel operators (animal shelters) from using euthanasia or killing animals with exhaust fumes.

However, David Yoder, a dog breeder at his Black Diamond Acres kennel confessed to gassing 93 dogs when he found out the dogs needed medical treatment for brucellosis. He sealed the dogs into boxes- the dogs died in the very same boxes they were born in.

According to the PETA files, "Yoder has turned in his kennel license and is now under investigation by the USDA and the local sheriff's department. He faces fines of up to $10,000 for every violation of the Animal Welfare Act."

Rest in peace beautiful puppies.

This is just another astounding reason to only adopt animals and never to buy animals from pet stores, which buy animals from puppy mills such as the one in this case.

See my post on Gas Chambers here: http://cfcorner.blogspot.com/2010/09/animal-gas-chambers.html
Article link: http://ht.ly/2ETWC