Target: Thomas Vilsack, Secretary for U.S. Department of Agriculture
Goal: Ban cruel euthanasia methods that subject farm animals to agonizing deaths.
While agriculturalists call the methods used to cull and kill animals “euthanasia,” veterinary professionals have other names for them: “suffocation,” “drowning in fluids,” “death by heatstroke,” and “cooked alive,” to name a few. The United States is currently experiencing an avian flu outbreak, which has led to the deliberate killing of thousands of farm animals like chickens. Two of the most common culling techniques have already been banned in the European Union due to their inhumanity.
One of the methods, called ventilation shutdown, is a sanitized term for the horrors that actually take place. The condemned animals are packed into an enclosed space and exposed to viciously high levels of steam and heat. In essence, they are broiled alive. When this torture was used on millions of pigs during a different flu outbreak, secretly recorded footage picked up the screams of the animals as they died in a literal living hell. The second form of so-called euthanasia involves blanketing the livestock in firefighting foam. What is the effect of this seemingly harmless action? The targeted animals essentially suffocate and choke to death.
Sign the petition below to demand U.S. leadership follow Europe’s lead in ending this unsanctioned torture and legalized animal cruelty for good.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
What kind of “medical remedy” could be so horrific that it compels ten percent of the professionals who perform it to consider suicide? What form of “euthanasia” has been deemed so inhumane that the European Union and the World Organisation for Animal Health condemn it? If you wonder about the answer to these questions, look no further than America’s farms, where not one but two of these lambasted practices occur routinely.
Firefighting foam and ventilation shutdown have been used—and are currently being used—to end the lives of millions of livestock afflicted with illness. The terms may sound harmless, and perhaps even humane. They are anything but–the former method results in the slow, painful suffocation of the victims as they drown in their own fluids. As to the latter…some of the physical effects of ventilation shutdown include heatstroke, severe burns, vomiting blood, and bloody mucus emitting from body openings. Or, if you want a clearer concept of what fate befalls the animals “euthanized” by extreme heat and stream, listen to the recording of a barnful of dying pigs screaming in pain.
This inhumanity, this barbarity, and this cruelty have no place in a nation that claims it values life. Please advocate for a ban on these modern-day forms of torture at once.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Artem Beliaikin
Absolutely horrid. Our country has gone to hell, and we need to start acting like civilized humans again instead of barbarians. There needs to be way more harsh laws towards animal abuse. How would you like to be in this situation? The Golden Rule applies to everyone, including animals. Treat them like you would want to be treated.
Yes you are correct I am ashamed of the USA because how they treat the animals. Captive & Wild as well as farm animals and pets.
You are so right! No matter how much we try to voice this in so many ways and petitions, it’s falling on deaf ears and becoming depressing and seriously heartbreaking.
Lest we forget how much more important the almighty dollar is than life is. Although this directly pertains to non-human animals, it also applies to human animals as well, if less glaringly.
. New Millennium barbarism is so much more horrible and vicious than the old, more honest barbarism we loudly and hypocritically condemn
We desperately need to become civilized
The Dept of Ag and all the other government officials who back this type of treatment of farm animals should be treated in the same manner. Enough of this animal cruelty.
There is NO compassion left in the world of big ag! Things are done to save a buck and make a profit. It’s sickening and disgraceful how animals are treated. This is a huge reason I’m vegan. I don’t want to contribute to the suffering of innocent animals.
Absolutely bloody disgusting. Just when you think it can’t get worse, it does. This is sickening.
Sick torture of the animals that give their lives for us!
I eat less and less animal products because I can’t stand the misery they go through.
NOT RIGHT!!!
I really hope Americans WAKE UP and see what’s going on around them and DO something about it!
Agree all comments stop this horrific cruelty now and if not done humanly close these places down . Put these people who do this in this way let them die this way. Justice now what is who with fucken people and laws where is the animal protection doing about it fucken nothing. Its all about money these days fucken people who do this should be tortured and executed.
How can these people be so inhumane! These animals are living, breathing beings that deserve shelter and Love and just to be cared for like any other animal, instead they’re disrespected constantly and treated with such distress meanwhile they provide food for us and this is how they get treated in return!?!?? Where’s the gratitude and appreciation, I bet they would be even happier to provide more if they were cared for properly, It’s us humans that are the ones that are losing out!
Motherfuckers should be hung upside down and disemboweled. I wish I could blow their brains out.
Land of the brave and the home of the free? Yeah, right! How can this happen in 2022’s America? How callous, cruel and evil can so-called “humans” be?
AS LONG AS THERE ARE SLAUGHTERHOUSES, THERE WILL BE BATTLEFIELDS AND SUFFERING…
SLAUGHTERHOUSES EXIST ONLY BECAUSE NON-VEGANS PAY FOR THEM TO EXIST.
DON’T BE BLATANT HYPOCRITES AND GO VEGAN AS MILLIONS OF TRULY LOVING AND COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DONE.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS HYPOCRISY, BLATANT LIES, COWARDICE AND A MISUNDERSTOOD WISH TO FIT-IN IN THE SOCIETY OF JUST AS IGNORANT AND BRAINLESS INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORT THIS ANIMAL-HELL BY THEIR REGULAR FOOD PURCHASES!
GO VEGAN AND SHOW THAT YOU LOVE ALL ANIMALS, AND NOT ONLY CATS AND DOGS!
Do this to rich humans. Kill off 95 percent of fucking humans solves everything
YOU EVIL SADISTIC MONSTERS!!!!!!!
Every cruel evil punk who is involved with this/these horror, ignoring or making it happen, need to suffer the same abuse with the same outcome….
ALL ANIMALS AND FORMS OF WILDLIFE DESERVE TO LIVE THE LIFE THEY WERE MEANT TO LIVE. IN MY OPINION
These are living beings people!!!!
STOP ALL ANIMAL CRUELTY IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
ALL ABUSERS ON THESE FARMS MUST BE THROWN IN JAIL,,,,ASAP!!!
STOP SUCH HORRIBLE SUFFERING POOR INNOCENT SOULS ARE GOING THROUGH FOR HUMANS!!! I HOPE THE ABUSERS CHOKE FOR THEIR EVIL CRUEL DARK SOUL DEMON WAY’S ………..
Please make public a list of ALL of the factory farms that perpetuate this inhumanity and then let ALL BOYCOTT them !!!! It just isn’t worth the suffering and the misery.
cosa non si fa per profitto, è nella natura umana rendere schiavi. le mie gallina girano indisturbate per tutto il mio terreno. L’essere umano paghera per questo, in un modo o nell’altro pagheremo tutto
GO VEGAN — This is beyond sadistic cruelty — such PSYCHOS belong JAILED — they do NOT GIVE a DAMN about Animals — do NOT support such people, such companies — all the more reason to GO VEGAN — GO VEGAN — GO VEGAN — GO VEGAN