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30,000 chickens thrown into a wood chipper
buschmaster
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Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, prosecutors said on Friday.
But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers "callous and barbaric" and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them.
The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.
Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego, asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.
"Once they had permission we decided that they did not have any criminal intent," Stewart said.
Brothers Arie and Will Wilgenburg, who run Escondido-based Ward Poultry Farm, could not be reached for comment on Friday. Earlier, they told the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper that they were doing "what we thought we had to do" based on expert advice and stopped as soon as they learned otherwise.
Wayne Pacelle, a spokesman for the Humane Society, said that explanation was unacceptable.
"The act of feeding live chickens into a wood chipper is an extraordinarily callous and barbaric act and I can't imagine any person with a whit of common sense would use a wood chipper as a killing tool," he said. "No person with any experience in killing animals would sanction the use of this technique."
Pacelle said the District Attorney's decision not to prosecute the brothers rested on the "faulty assumption" that using wood chippers to kill chickens was an accepted practice.
But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers "callous and barbaric" and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them.
The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.
Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego, asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.
"Once they had permission we decided that they did not have any criminal intent," Stewart said.
Brothers Arie and Will Wilgenburg, who run Escondido-based Ward Poultry Farm, could not be reached for comment on Friday. Earlier, they told the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper that they were doing "what we thought we had to do" based on expert advice and stopped as soon as they learned otherwise.
Wayne Pacelle, a spokesman for the Humane Society, said that explanation was unacceptable.
"The act of feeding live chickens into a wood chipper is an extraordinarily callous and barbaric act and I can't imagine any person with a whit of common sense would use a wood chipper as a killing tool," he said. "No person with any experience in killing animals would sanction the use of this technique."
Pacelle said the District Attorney's decision not to prosecute the brothers rested on the "faulty assumption" that using wood chippers to kill chickens was an accepted practice.
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I never have used a wood chipper. How long would it take a chicken to die in a wood chipper?
If it killed the bird in a second or two, what is the problem?
This may sound sick, But something tells me this is not the first time this has happened (in some sort of experiment).
scientist 1: We need to do some more experiments with chickens.
scientist 2: more experiments? (cackles with glee)
scientist 1: 30,000 chickens.
scientist 2: and a wood chipper!
scientist 1: mwuahahahaha!!!
scientist 2: ...but where do we get the funding?
scientist 1: ask the government, you ninny! no problem.
scientists 1&2: mwuahahahaha!!!!!!
It sounds barbaric, but is it?
Bet the end result is faster than a jet engine[:D]
i heard a report from somewhere in california where a landscaper acidentaly got sucked into a wood chipper and he was killed instantly and chopped to pieces. those things can decimate 100lb solid pieces of hard wood, they can surely kill chickens in the blink of an eye.
the humane society didnt say what is an appropriate or "compassionate" way to kill a chicken. were the farmers supposed to anastetize 30,000 chickens and then give them secondary shots to kill them ?
[:D][:D][:D]Overdose their water with downers and play Peter Paul and Mary music as they fall into eternal sleep[:D][:D][:D]
my guess is a wood chipper kills a chicken in a split second. i see nothing barbaric about it.
i heard a report from somewhere in california where a landscaper acidentaly got sucked into a wood chipper and he was killed instantly and chopped to pieces.
Yeh, A worker fell into a chipper here in So Cal a few weeks ago. It ground him up and spit him out just like that.
The 30,000 chickens could be adapted to fit in a trap machine. They would make great targets.
did anybody bother to ask what was the approved humane method to kill 30,000 chickens then ? i need to know ....
Lethal injection, at $4.50 per bird=$135,000 [:0]
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quote:Originally posted by FrancF
This may sound sick, But something tells me this is not the first time this has happened (in some sort of experiment).
scientist 1: We need to do some more experiments with chickens.
scientist 2: more experiments? (cackles with glee)
scientist 1: 30,000 chickens.
scientist 2: and a wood chipper!
scientist 1: mwuahahahaha!!!
scientist 2: ...but where do we get the funding?
scientist 1: ask the government, you ninny! no problem.
scientists 1&2: mwuahahahaha!!!!!!
What we really need is a nuclear bomb to go with 30,000 chickens. SOmething big. Maybe a 10 megaton bomb.
Wait a minute. What do people think happens at the chicken packing plant. They hang the chickens upside down on a conveyor. At a precise moment a jolt of electricity passes through the chicken and the next is stretched in pain. At the next precise moment the neck meets the circular saw. Should the chicken survive the saw blade, there is a Mexican in a yellow rain suit waiting with a knife.
What is the difference with this human system and say...a wood chipper?
I can't think of a faster way of killing chickens or anything else that running them through the chipper.
Guys picked up a road kill deer just to see what would happen when I run it through the chipper. Didn't take more than 2 seconds Gone!
Moose
Can you say chicken soup?
Moose
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.
I'm thinking I wouldnt want to eat their eggs if they were under quarantine for the poultry virus either [xx(]
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.