Activists drove 30 hours to get the animals from an Iowa egg farm planning to kill them with gas. They were transported on two planes back to Animal Place's Grass Valley sanctuary.
EOIN HIGGINS: As reports continue to come out of the nation’s meat processing industry’s planned slaughter of millions of pigs and chickens due to labor and health concerns in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, animal rights groups are stepping up to rescue as many creatures as possible from mechanized death and calling for a post-coronavirus plant-based food future…
Activists with California animal rescue organization Animal Place on Saturday rescued a “lucky 1,000” hens from an Iowan egg farm planning to kill 100,000 chickens with carbon dioxide gas due to the continuing damage the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking on the nation’s agricultural supply chain. The group drove 30 hours to get the animals, who were transported on two planes back to Animal Place’s Grass Valley sanctuary.
“The entire process, from the 27-hour drive, arriving at the farm at 3 am, loading and unloading full crates from the planes and vehicles, and going straight to caring for them once we arrived at the sanctuary was the most exhausting experience I’ve ever had,” the group’s animal care director Hannah Beins said in a statement…
The group’s executive director Kim Sturla said that she was proud of Animal Place staff and supporters for stepping up but that the real fight against the meat industry would continue past the end of the pandemic. “Unfortunately not even we can take in 100,000 hens,” said Sturla, “which is a drop in the bucket of the hundreds of million hens killed annually by the egg industry, even in a typical year without a global pandemic”. SOURCE…
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