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Farmers Put Live Chickens in Wood Chippers (what the cluck?)
Reuters ^
Posted on 04/14/2003 11:44:56 AM PDT by Dallas
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agriculture
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:44:56 AM PDT
by
Dallas
To: Dallas
Geeze louise..there was no other way?
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: Dallas
This is will ruffle some feathers.
3
posted on
04/14/2003 11:46:08 AM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(France, Germany and Dems are relevant only as obstructionists.)
To: Dallas
They didn't show the chickens the movie "CHICKEN RUN" with Mel Gibson?
To: socal_parrot
LOL
5
posted on
04/14/2003 11:46:27 AM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: Dallas
Need I mention that the mention of wood chippers is apropos?
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:47:09 AM PDT
by
PianoMan
(Liberate the Axis of Evil)
To: Dallas
I guess the Humane Society never saw Fargo.
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:47:29 AM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: Dallas
I am not an animal rights advocate but Man that was cruel!
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:48:01 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Is he dead yet? He's dead Jim!)
To: Dallas
I am wondering why the article did not give a time reference for when this took place, especially for when the permission was given?
Lets see what the left thinks is worse:
Saddam throwing people in a plastic shredder
or
Farmers throwing chickens in a wood chipper due to health concerns
To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Is a woodchipper that much worse than what the Acme Chicken Company does on a daily basis? Good thing I'm not a pollo.
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:49:30 AM PDT
by
The Dude Abides
(So what do you have to do to get 5 Stars these days?)
To: princess leah
"I don't want to be put in a pie....I don't like Gravy"
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:49:49 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(I am a Librarian. I don't know anything....I just know where to look it up.)
To: Dallas
Hillary's version of 'Chicken Soup for the Soul".
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:49:59 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
(Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
To: Dallas
I can't think of a more cumbersome, cruel and messy way to dispose of chickens. How bizarre. I hope they find another business to be in. I would suggest a line of work that does not involve anything with a heartbeat.
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:50:08 AM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Not all those who wander are lost.)
To: socal_parrot
Is that your eggspert opinion ?
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:50:32 AM PDT
by
Dallas
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To: Dallas
This is so wrong on so many levels.
Like the man said, I'm no animal rights nut but some things go beyond the pale. Furthermore, if these animals were, in fact, inflected turning them into a stream of hazardous waste hardly seem an appropriate way to dispose of them.
I think, at the very least, some buereucrats need firing.
To: Dallas
My God... one live anything in a wood-chipper seems excessive, but 30,000? What do you do with the terrible blood and gore messes left over? Is that supposed to help contain pathogens, by splattering them all over the place?
It's all very confusing.
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:52:04 AM PDT
by
Tony Niar Brain
(Choose your enemies carefully, for you will become like them...)
To: Conan the Librarian
Was that your friend there in the wood chipper? Ya know?
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posted on
04/14/2003 11:52:24 AM PDT
by
rdax
To: Dallas
Humane Society cries fowl.
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