Written by PETA
Last week, we told you about TWJ Farms, an egg factory farm in Nebraska that planned to kill 70,000 unwanted chickens by placing them in an industrial machine and grinding them up—while still alive. According to a whistleblower, TWJ has killed hundreds of thousands of hens this way in recent years, and TWJ CEO Joe Claybaugh seems to confirm it in news reports. A witness stated that many of the birds were maimed or mutilated during the process and suffered in agony for hours before they died.
After PETA sent an urgent plea asking local and state law enforcement officials to intervene—and thanks to your calls and e-mails to the company—we have received confirmation from the Nebraska State Patrol that TWJ will not grind up the 70,000 chickens as planned.
We're still waiting to hear directly from TWJ and its primary egg customer, Minnesota-based Michael Foods, Inc., that TWJ and all Michael Foods egg suppliers will use only legal, approved means to kill sick, injured, or unwanted chickens. But you don't have to wait to make a difference: You can help spare millions of birds from unimaginable suffering by cutting eggs out of your diet.
Written by Paula Moore
Where/how can I apply to adopt some of the hens? (If this is an option for them.)
As long as there are people eating meat and thinking that they will die if they dont, then the supply will be met somehow orthe other. Opposing one such company is just fighting the smoke. The real fire is in the person's stomach and senses which need to be put out.
i want to say any human that can needlessly killed and torcher any living creature should be ashamed of themselves it makes me sick to think of it and if i had known how this animals where killed i would have stopped along time ago i did no anybetter and thanks to your website you have changed my life for the better and i will speak on behalf all animals big or small keeping my main focus on the animal farms since they dont have many to speak for them we have to
Another good reason to quit eating chickens is the steroids they are injected with. I recently became a diabetic at 26 years old, 4% body fat, and a healthy diet. There is a link between steroids and diabetes, and it is said that 1 in 3 Americans will be diagnosed with some type of diabetes at some point in their life. Take it from me, you don't want this. And hopefully it can help eliminate the cruelty to these innocent animals.
It's astonishing that this is not against the law. This is just barbaric. I'm happy they have halted this practice, although who knows how long. Who knows what will happen to these birds. And they've already used this method on 10s of thousands of other birds. Just deplorable.
Its things like grinding live chickens that make my stomach cramp and churn when I look at meat. Now that I have given up meat I am disgusted by smelling or looking at it.
Re: Sam. We do not, in fact, need animals for their food (www.peta.org/.../eating-for-health.aspx), so we certainly CAN avoid killing them. However, PETA recognizes that a vegan world won’t be achieved overnight. In the meantime, we also work hard to reduce the suffering of the billions of chickens by exposing filthy, inhumane living conditions, and by promoting Controlled Atmospheric Killing (To learn more, please read: www.peta.org/.../peta-makes-waves-in-chicken-farming-industry.aspx). - PETA
hi :) i just turned vegetarian today, because i never really liked the taste of meat, and i absolutely adore animals. i cant see how these people would be cruel enough to even do such a thing. every creature deserves to live a happy painless life. glad peta stopped it. :D
I agree with 2yingyang2. I dont trust them. They could be lying & they could be twisting the truth. They do not want these animals so they dispose of them the cheapest way possible. So did they say what they ARE going to do with the chickens? I dont understand why they cant be donated to local farms or organizations or the world food depository? Thank you whisle blower. Maybe those people in control of this and those other workers should suffer at the hands of that machine. That will make them think twice wont it!
Iris (of Nov. 11th), come on. Imagine yourself in the circumstances of these chickens. Being unwilling to help chickens because you like chicken and dumpling is so lame that I am embarrassed for you. There are far greater joys in life. And tofu doesn't have to be one of them if you don't like it. I'm vegan and rarely eat tofu.
To all people in all industrialized nations: most male chicks of the egg-laying variety are killed in this manner. You don't need eggs. Please don't eat them. This is the outcome of massive demand for eggs. Count yourself out!
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