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INNOCENT CHICKS ARE THRUST ALIVE THROUGH A GRINDER - BECAUSE THEY ARE MALE; ALLEGED NEWS.
Helpless wriggling chicks are debeaked, thrown from side to side as they are checked; Alleged News.
Other chicks helplessly lie and die; Alleged News.
Lumiere Charity has received reports of the treatment of chicks.
In my youth, I grew up near farms and used to spend weekends with my friends, helping them to gather eggs.
Free range chickens [why would you want to cage them?] ran up to us when we came to collect eggs.
We knew them by name, and Tillie took a special shine to me. She used to follow me around everywhere when I came to visit the smallholding.
We used to wait outside until the hens finished laying [we considered they needed the privacy].
Then we kids used to go in and gently remove the eggs, place them in a bucket and bring them to my friends' parents.
My friends used sufficient eggs for their dietary needs, and sold the rest at the local market.
The rest were left for the moms to brood on, and hatch sweet little baby chicks which we children doted on.
The farmers did not make a huge profit, but they certainly made ends meet; and we kids loved visiting the small farm.
Cossetted in the Kitchen
When chicks were hatched, we were absolutely thrilled. Sometimes if there was an ailing chick, my friend's mom used to keep the little one in her kitchen in a box.
She would nurse it, hand feeding and rearing the tiny mite. They usually survived.
We used to coo to the chicks, loving their downy yellow feathers and their innocent little faces.
Their sweetness and helplessness charmed us, making us eager to help them if they were ill.
We were often shooed out of the kitchen, as it was considered the little sick chicks needed peace and quiet, snuggled in their cosily fitted boxes - in order to thrive.
Egg Industries
Baby Chickens are being ground to death in egg hatcheries; Alleged News.
Graphic footage shows this occurrence.
Warning; this video is not suitable for children.
Male chicks are reportedly considered useless as they cannot lay eggs.
21 Facts as Apprised by PETA
1. It takes approximately 34 hours for a hen to produce an egg
2. In order to keep up with the demand, more than 300 million hens are used by the US egg industry every year, Alleged News
3. Hens' lives enter a two year cycle of suffering, from the time they are born
4. Chicks are born in large incubators
5. They will never see their mothers
6. Shortly after birth, the males and females are separated
7. The females head to a life in the egg industry - roughly handled, Alleged News
8. The males are either tossed into trash bags to suffocate, Alleged News
9. Or the males are ground up alive, Alleged News. [Warning; footage not suitable for children]
10. The female chicks have their beaks cut off with a hot blade
11. 5 to 11 hens are crammed into tiny wire 'battery' cages
12. The cages are often stacked one on top of one another
13. This allows urine and faeces to fall down onto birds in the lower cages
14. Because of the terrible living conditions, chickens often die in their cages
15. They are sometimes left to rot in the same space as living birds
16. After two years, those who have survived are sent to the slaughter
17. At the slaughterhouse, laying hens meet the same bloody end as that of chickens raised for their meat
18. They are shackled and hanged upside down
19. They are electrocuted
20. Their throats are cut
21. And they are often scalded to death; Alleged News.
See Peta footage re the above 21 points. Warning; viewing not suitable for children.
http://www.peta.org/features/egg-industry-cruelty/
Chickens contaminated with campylobacter
Nearly three-quarters of fresh chickens in supermarkets and butchers are contaminated with the potentially lethal food-poisoning bug campylobacter, according to the final results of a year-long testing programme published by the Food Standards Agency, Alleged News. [1]
The cumulative results for samples taken between February 2014 and February 2015 showed that 73% of poultry is contaminated with the bacteria, and 19% of the chickens are heavily contaminated; Alleged News .[1]
Campylobacteriosis
Campylobacteriosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Campylobacter.
Most people who become ill by Campylobacter show the following symptoms;
- diarrhoea
- cramping
- abdominal pain
- fever
within two to five days after exposure to the organism.
The diarrhoea can be bloody, and may be accompanied by nausea and vomitting.
The illness usually lasts one week.
If a person with a compromised immune system contracts campylobacteriosis, the Campylobacter occasionally spreads to the bloodstream and cause serious, life-threatening infection. [2]
Leading zoonotic disease
Human Campylobacteriosis is the leading zoonotic disease in Europe and in the US.
In the EU, 214 779 confirmed cases were reported in 2013; Alleged News .
The EU case-fatality rate lay at 0.05%; Alleged News.
56 deaths due to Campylobacteriosis were reported in 2013, with the United Kingdom accounting for 33 of these; Alleged News. [3]
Campylobacter infections are acknowledged to be under-reported; true numbers of clinical campylobacteriosis are estimated to lie between 2 and 20 million per year; Alleged News.
In the US more than 2.4 million cases are reported annually with several hundred fatalities; Alleged News. [3]
Globally, campylobacter infections cause about 400 million cases of diarrhoea annually; Alleged News.
The costs of campylobacteriosis to public health systems and to lost productivity, is estimated to be around EUR 2.4 billion a year in the EU and around USD 18 bn in the USA, Alleged News. [3]
Campylobacter Infection Complications
About 1% of documented Campylobacter cases are associated with severe complications such as arthropathies, abortion [miscarriage] and neuropathological symptoms [Guillain Barre Syndrome, a form of paralysis], Alleged News. [3]
Further complications can include septicaemia, Alleged News. [4]
Septicaemia is an infection of the blood, also known as bacteremia or blood poisoning.
Other infections are meningitis, inflammation of the gall bladder [cholecystitis], and appendicitis; Alleged News. [4]
Guillain Barre Syndrome
A sizeable percentage of those who suffer Campylobacter infections develop Guillain Barre Syndrome, which causes neuromuscular paralysis; Alleged News.
Over time, the paralysis is to some extent typically reversible; however, approximately 20% of the patients with GBS are left disabled, and approximately 5% die; Alleged News. [4]
Miller Fisher Syndrome
Guillain Barre Syndrome [GBS] occurs when an infected person's immune system makes antibodies against components of Campylobacter, and these very antibodies attack components of the body's nerve cells because they are chemically similar to bacterial components; Alleged News.
Miller Fisher Syndrome is another, related neurological syndrome that can follow Campylobacteriosis; Alleged News.
Miller Fisher Syndrome is also caused by a triggered immune response, Alleged News. [4]
Reiter's Syndrome
Another chronic condition that may be associated with Campylobacter infection is a condition formerly known as Reiter's Syndrome; a form of reactive arthritis, Alleged News
Multiple joints can be affected, particularly the knee joint. Pain and incapacitation can last for months, or become chronic; Alleged News.
Reactive arthritis is a complication strongly associated with a particular genetic make-up;
id est, people who have the human lymphocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27) are the most susceptible; Alleged News. [4]
What causes Campylobacter?
Contaminated poultry meat is considered to be a major source of infection for humans, which may be partly due to the high bacterial load among live birds and the automation of the slaughter process; Alleged News. [3]
The intestinal tract of chicken, especially the cecum and colon, can harbor Campylobacter bacteria; Alleged News.
During processing, the intestinal tract may leak or rupture, and the contents be transferred to the skin of the carcass; Alleged News.
Campylobacter spreads quickly through a broiler flock within a matter of days; Alleged News. [3]
Coprophagy [the eating of faeces or dung], and chicken-to-chicken transmission via the fecal-oral route [faeces or dung to eating through beak] increases the dissemination of the bacteria [or its rapid spread]; Alleged News. [3]
GRINDING OF CHICKS
ALIVE IS TORTURE!
GENDER BIAS AGAINST INNOCENT
ANIMALS IS DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST A SENTIENT BEING!
EXPOSURE OF HUMANS TO
COPROPHAGY LINKED ILLNESS
IS DEMEANING TO THE DIGNITY
OF HUMANITY!
BABY CHICK GRINDING MUST STOP!
Why not sign the petition to Stop Grinding Chicks to Death for Egg Industry?
[1] Three-quarters of supermarket chickens contaminated with campylobacter, Alleged News
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/28/supermarket-chickens-contaminated-campylobacter
[2] Campylobacter
http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/diseases/campylobacter/index.html
[3] Campylobacter, Alleged News
http://www.malcisbo.com/Medical-Areas/Campylobacter.aspx
[4] Complications of Campylobacter, Alleged News
http://www.about-campylobacter.com/campylobacter_complications#.V5R62EsrLIV
Live Fast, Die Young - the life of a meat chicken, Alleged News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbtBgLfl90
Sick Chicken: the dirty truth about food and the UK's poultry industry; Guardian Investigations; Alleged News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4kpLiA2Qo
Practice of killing male chicks to continue, German Parliament decides; Alleged News
http://www.dw.com/en/practice-of-killing-male-chicks-to-continue-german-parliament-decides/a-17030868
Renewed Pressure on Big Egg to stop violently killing 'useless' male chicks; Alleged News
http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/renewed-pressure-on-big-egg-to-stop-violently-killing-useless-male-chicks-20160718-gq8141.html
With thanks to youtube, animalpetitions.org, theguardian.com, cdc.gov, malcisbo.com, www.about-campylobactor.com, dw.com and smh.com.au
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