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    Culling chickens with firefighting foam - GIF

    Culling chickens with firefighting foam.




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    Call it culling if you want
    Exterminating the Birds: They Call It “Euthanasia”

    Between December 2014 and June 2015, more than 33 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were suffocated to death with firefighting foam and carbon dioxide in the Midwestern states of Iowa, Minnesota and elsewhere in the United States in response to the avian influenza outbreaks that began on poultry farms in 2014. Since June, the number of birds exterminated has grown by many millions more in the U.S. and globally. The world poultry industry admits that avian influenza epidemics will continue. The concentration of billions of highly stressed, immunocompromised birds living in filth, misery and fear across the earth guarantees it.

    In addition to using firefighting foam and carbon dioxide to exterminate the flocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture supports exterminating them by shutting off the ventilation in the houses and letting the birds bake to death – a process that can take anywhere from half an hour to 3 or more hours for every bird to die. Shutting off the ventilation in the computer-controlled houses is the cheapest method of extermination. Neither gas nor foam is needed.

    Shooting hoses filled with carbon dioxide into the confinement houses, metal boxes and “kill carts” causes the birds to burn, freeze, and suffocate to death simultaneously – and slowly. This has become the egg industry’s main method of exterminating “spent” hens, whether from battery cages or cage-free confinement operations, with or without bird flu.

    As for fire-fighting foam, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved in 2006, contrary to the lie that the birds are dead within a minute of being blanketed under the foam, Bruce Webster of The University of Georgia told a USDA meeting in June 2006, “You saw a lot of escape behavior for 4-6 minutes. You saw the birds’ heads sticking out of the foam.” Eventually, their movements ceased, as the birds were “worn out” with their “volitional struggle,” he told attendees including UPC president Karen Davis at the meeting.

    In a firefighting foam trial with turkeys, birds were reported flapping under the foam for up to 6 minutes. This does not mean that the turkeys were unconscious or dead when the flapping stopped or appeared to. And foam-covered birds cannot vocalize their suffering. They cannot be seen or heard. Necropsies showed hemorrhages in the tracheas of birds who died under the foam, and “occlusion of the trachea by the foam” was cited by Ruth Newberry of Washington State University as “a serious welfare concern.” – United Poultry Concerns, August 2015
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    Seems like there would also be the issue of PFAS chemicals contaminating the area where the new birds are going to be brought in. Just another way that we are inadvertently ingesting them.



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