Other Animals In Retail

Other animals in retail? What other animals?

Dead animals.

You can get it on

A Dog, Curled Up In It’s Bed, Dead And Stuffed.
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Parrots, Stuffed, Frozen Or Skinned

Ebay removes these dead animals once a complaint is made, but by then the damage is done, both to the dead animal and the fact that the people selling them are pocketing the money.

Are you horrified at these images? So are we!

Let ebay know how you feel.
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Now, to the big question. Are you this horrified and angry when you see stuffed birds which are not pets? Does it bother you to see a stuffed owl, deer head or raccoon in homes as well as public venues such as restaurants?

Would you eat at a restaurant which had stuffed dogs, cats and parrots adorning the walls?

Why do we feel sympathy for one type of animal which we have deemed a ‘pet’ while we have no remorse over the suffering of an animal considered wildlife?

VICTORIA

“Morning comes and it is time to awake, the parrots are screaming and flying to welcome the new day. I step into my slippers and let my 3 dogs and Victoria out of my bedroom. Off they race, running down the stairs, through the kitchen and dining room. All four are leaping up and down waiting for me to open the back door. Off they all run, making trails through the morning dew. Eventually my dogs all come bursting back into the kitchen, wet and wanting breakfast. I call out the back door for Victoria, he comes running full speed, jumping over shrubs and scrambling into the kitchen for his breakfast. After breakfast, Victoria settles in my lap for a cuddle, he adores face rubs and all over body petting. Recently he appeared on a cable TV show and was amazingly well behaved, sitting on my lap the entire time enjoying the attention.”

Tami Myers

Victoria is a male, he is named after Animal Liberation Victoria.
http://www.alv.org.au/index.htm

So what type of pet is Victoria? He is a Leghorn Rooster.

A Rooster as a PET?? Yes, chickens make great companions, Victoria adores a cuddle, comes when he is called and just like a dog, understands basic commands such as NO! He adores following us about the yard, watching everything we are doing and getting involved.

Chickens are for Lovin' NOT the Oven!

Chicken Myths And Facts
(What The Grocery Stores Never Wanted You To Know)

Chickens are stupid. Chickens are NOT stupid, they are quite clever and loving.

Chickens are meant to be eaten. Says who? Are Parrots also meant to be eaten? What about Eagles? Cardinals? Pelicans?

Chicken is healthy. Healthy for whom? Pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones these baby chicks are far from healthy. And this is what you eat and feed to your children?

FACT

Chickens are shackled and hung up to be slaughtered at 6-8 weeks of age.

The age which puppies and kittens are becoming weaned and starting their lives.

Baby chickens in shackles often struggle in terror, the swift cutting blades miss the necks of these babies. The assembly line soon dunks them into the scalding tanks, boiling water to facilitate the removal of the feathers.

Baby birds are then scalded alive.

FACT

Do you love birds? Do you limit your love to only a few species? Are parrots your life’s passion? What about the other birds? If you believe that the parrots you adore do not come from facilities similar to the photos below, you are kidding yourself!

Is There A Difference?

Sweet little cute fuzzy chicks come tumbling down conveyor belts on an egg farm. The peeping for their mothers in terror is audible over the machinery.

The workers pluck the male chicks from the yellow tumbling mass of thousands of peeping chicks. The males are tossed onto the floor, or into the trash cans like bad apples. Some are left to slowly die in the heaps of dying chicks. Some are sent to be tossed alive in wood chippers, ground up and used in cattle feed.

The chicks which are hens are then sent into a living hell. Once they are a few weeks old they have their beaks painfully chopped off with a hot blade. The ones that survive this mutilation are then stuffed into small cages with so many other hens that many suffocate, starve or die from dehydration. These dead hens are left in these cages.

Eggs are collected from a wire screen sloped to collect them. Feed and water is automated. Workers rarely set foot into these warehouses unless it is to clean them out, the fumes from urine and feces is unbearable. Once the hens are no longer reaching the quota due to sickness and the piles of the dead, workers literally toss them into trucks and send them to the slaughterhouse by the thousands.

Forced Molting

Depriving chickens of water, food and sunlight for days and then these basic life necessities suddenly reappear causes the chickens to start laying eggs again. What is so alarming is the millions of chickens who suffer and die as a result of Forced Molting.

Gallus Neglectedus ("Neglected Chickens")

The breeding animals who produce the nation’s 9 billion chickens have been called Gallus neglectedus ("neglected chickens") because their welfare is so often completely ignored. These birds suffer from many of the same conditions forced on other chickens but have to suffer from them for a longer period of time. Additionally, the birds are forced to endure constant hunger from food deprivation and painful mutilations, including having their beaks seared off, their toes, spurs, and combs chopped off, and intranasal implants (plastic stick-like objects) inserted through male birds’ nasal cavities so that the ends protrude horizontally to both sides of their faces, preventing the birds from reaching through the cage to eat the females’ food.

Chicken Intelligence

The mental abilities of animals—particularly birds—have traditionally been underestimated. However, as we take the time to study what birds are really like, their intelligence and complex lives become very obvious.

Here’s what the experts say about chickens:

Dr. Lesley Rogers, Professor of Zoology at University of New England, Australia

“[I]t is now clear that birds have cognitive capacities equivalent to
those of mammals, even primates.”

Rogers LJ, The Development of Brain and Behavior in the Chicken (Wallingford, Oxon, U.K.: CABI Publishing, 1995, p. 217).

Dr. Joy Mench, Professor of Animal Science at University of California at Davis

“Dr. Joy Mench, Professor and Director of the Center for Animal Welfare at the Univ. of Calif. at Davis explains, ‘Chickens show sophisticated social behavior….That’s what a pecking order is all about. They can recognize more than a hundred other chickens and remember them. They have more than thirty types of vocalizations.’”

Specter M, “The Extremist,” The New Yorker, April 14, 2003, p. 64.

Dr. Chris Evans, Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University, Australia

“Chickens exist in stable social groups. They can recognize each other by their facial features. They have 24 distinct cries that communicate a wealth of information to one other, including separate alarm calls depending on whether a predator is traveling by land or sea. They are good at solving problems. ‘As a trick at conferences I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people thing I’m talking about monkeys,’ Mr. Evans said.  Perhaps most persuasive is the chicken’s intriguing ability to understand that an object, when taken away and hidden, nevertheless continues to exist. This is beyond the capacity of small children.”

Grimes W, “If Chickens Are So Smart, Why Aren’t They Eating Us?” New York Times, January 12, 2003.

Dr. Christine Nicol, Professor of Veterinary Science at Bristol University, England

“‘They may be bird brains, but we need to redefine what we mean by bird brains,’ she told the British Association Festival of Science at Leicester University. ‘Chickens have shown us they can do things people didn’t think they could do. There are hidden depths to chickens, definitely.’”

Ananova, “Chickens ‘Not Just Bird-Brains,’” September 11, 2002. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_668673.html

Dr. Bernard Rollin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University

“Contrary to what one may hear from the industry, chickens are not mindless, simple automata but are complex behaviorally, do quite well in learning, show a rich social organization, and have a diverse repertoire of calls. Anyone who has kept barnyard chickens also recognizes their significant differences in personality.”

Rollin B, Farm Animal Welfare: School, Bioethical, and Research Issues (Iowa State University Press, 1995, p. 118).

Roast chicken! YUM??

"The chickens are caught during the night. . . . When they have 3,500-5,000 birds packed into the crates, they are stacked up in flatbed trucks and driven to any one of several chicken slaughter plants. They're grabbed out of the crates, hung upside down in metal shackles. . . . Then they go through this electrified water bath in something called a stun cabinet . . . to paralyze them to facilitate feather release and keep them still on the processing line. The stun cabinet is used to immobilize the birds, not render then unconscious at all. We're talking about a method that's basically pure torture. . . .

"Birds move toward the killing knife with the sensation of severe electric shocks added to their other agonies. Then they go on to a neck-cutting machine. It's like a surrealistic dry-cleaning establishment. You see all these spiraling chickens in phases of disassembly. They go through a round, rotating blade. It's supposed to cut their carotid arteries, which deliver oxygenated blood to the brain, upon which consciousness depends. But if they don't hit the carotid and the backup person doesn't tend to the bird properly, they might slice the jugular. This is agony – conscious torment. They're deliberately kept alive till the scald tank to keep their hearts beating. They go into the bleed-out tunnel and hang there for about 90 seconds, bleeding out upside down with their half-cut necks. You'll see some flapping. . . . They go into a scald tank. They may be alive still. It's a huge fecal soup. Then they end up in the chill tank. They're definitely dead by then."

Karen Davis United Poultry Concerns
http://www.upc-online.org/

FACT

Cows do not give milk simply because that is their purpose. They lactate just as female mammals do, they give birth and produce milk for their young.

These cows are artificially inseminated, their babies taken away, spend years standing in one place, their heads in bars, unable to turn around or scratch an itch. Standing in feces and being milked for an unnatural length of time causes a chronic mastitis. They are given antibiotics to keep this seriously painful infection under control.

How much pus is in your milk? http://www.gotpus.com/

After a few years they are spent and shipped to the slaughterhouse. Their babies take their place or have been sold as veal.

Dairy Cows: Nothing More Than Milk Machines

Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day—10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause dairy cows’ udders to become painful and so heavy that they sometimes drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of antibiotics. Cows, like all mammals, make milk to feed their own babies—not to feed humans.

Intensive production and unnatural diets cause massive rates of sickness. In fact, more than one-half of the dairy herd is suffering from some sort of infection or illness at any given time.

One slaughterhouse employee explained: "One time the knocking gun was broke all day; they were taking a knife and cutting the back of the cow’s neck open while he’s still standing up. They would just fall down and be a-shaking. And they stab cows in the butt to make ’em move. Break their tails. They beat them so bad. I’ve drug cows till their bones start breaking, while they were still alive. Bringing them around the corner, and they get stuck up in the doorway, just pull them till their hide be ripped, till the blood just drip on the steel and concrete. Breaking their legs pulling them in. And the cow is crying with its tongue stuck out. They pull him till his neck just pop."

Would we approve of a dog being treated like this? Would you purchase a roast of Golden Retriever to serve to your family? Tender and juicy? What about Parakeet wings, deep fried? Tender morsels of Persian kitty breast?

What about eating a horse? Would that be OK?

One common argument is that humans are the highest on the food chain and therefore should eat these animals. We will debate that argument when humans once again survive on hunting animals to eat.

The massacre and torture of animals slaughtered for food proves that we are NOT the top of the food chain. Humans are arrogant cowards, constantly seeking an easy way to indulge their selfish needs. We are a species so self absorbed in ourselves that we cannot see beyond ourselves.

www.factoryfarming.com