How do I rescue chickens from slaughterhouses and factories?

[MrFluffyandGirls]

I don't know about saving chicken lives from factories but I do know local animal control picks up a chicken here and there and you might find luck going to a animal society and adopting unwanted chickens. "CLM" all chicken lives matter after all.

 

[BDutch]

Best way to keep chickens out of factory farms is to not support factory farms

And you do that by eating no factory farm meat and eggs. People can do with less meat/eggs or even without (vegan).

Buying laying hens at the end of the commercial cycle from factory egg-farms is like feeling sorry and trying to help. But this doesn’t change this weird system of chicken-abuse.

Imo: its better to have no factory farms at all, and reduce this mass abuse. Do buy from small farm who give chickens a good life and kill humane. If we become vegetarians 6days/week its possible to make eating meat and eggs more humane/expensive. And keeping less animals for consumption is good for the environment too. Think global.

 

[Fishychix]

Small scale farming, local is all good and merry but there's no way in the US or the world for that matter could feed the populations and no way every family could supply their own because it's not feasible. Take for example one block in a big city can have thousands of people. 8,000-10,000 in just one giant sky scrapper during a workday in NY city alone. It maybe sad the conditions and practices of some factories but large scale factories are a evil necessity to supply the needs of our populations.

Ditto with black_cat.

 

[BDutch]

Small scale farming, local is all good and merry but there's no way in the US or the world for that matter could feed the populations and no way every family could supply their own because it's not feasible. Take for example one block in a big city can have thousands of people. 8,000-10,000 in just one giant sky scrapper during a workday in NY city alone. It maybe sad the conditions and practices of some factories but large scale factories are a evil necessity to supply the needs of our populations.

In the Netherlands and other countries in Europe things are changing really fast now. Most people don't eat meat/fish every anymore. More and more people become vegetarian and vegan.

It’s easy to do because in the grocery stores you can choose from a lot of veggie alternatives for meat. Made with (not gmo) soy, grains, lupine, beans, chickpeas etc. Some are made to taste like chicken or bef hamburger. Other are based on arabic recipes like falafel.
And beside that, there are lots of cooking recipes.

Here and in Belgium we had people who worked in the factory farms and meat industrie that have posted films about the cruelty. Children who saw these films refused to eat meat any longer.

And more people are aware that the factory farmers destroy our environment by NOx pollution and that they are responsible for the fires in Brazil for GMO soy to feed the farm animals, Things have to change. Or our world is no good place to live in within one or two decades.
Our nature is suffering allready .

• ¾ of the insects have died
• Some type of birds get sick and die
• Some type trees /plants get dick and die
• There are outbreaks from certain insects because they have no natural enemy.
• Plants like wild blackberries flourish and other get extinct,
• People get sick of the poisons used (a proven connection between Parkinson's disease and poidon used in the flower and bulbs industry)

And one way of doing this is to take responsibility as a consumer and stop eating (much) factory farm meat/eggs. Stop buying flowers unless you know there are no residues of poisons/ no poisons are used.

 

[BDutch]

Btw in England, Germany, Belgium and th Netherlands there are volunteer organisations that organise rescue operations,

They buy chickens at the end of their economic life and house them a few weeks until they look a bit better. Then sell them to people who like yo buy rescues,

A lot of these chickens still lay very wel. But they often get health problems, Especially with the laying system. Rescues/hybrids never live long like the older breeds.

Aren’t there organisations in the US too who do this kind of works ?

 

[3KillerBs]

Small scale farming, local is all good and merry but there's no way in the US or the world for that matter could feed the populations and no way every family could supply their own because it's not feasible.

Indeed.

The miracle of modern agriculture has provided us in the western world with the safest, healthiest, most abundant food supply in the history of humankind -- a blessing increasingly available to more and more of the world's peoples.

People need to consider what they're asking for -- which is radically higher food prices and dramatically reduced food supplies.

 

[Brandy2512]

As someone who lives in area where chicken houses are everywhere, I can certainly understand & appreciate your desire to help. Driving behind a chicken truck headed to the processing plant is disturbing and recently lead to an educational conversation with my son about the differences in those birds compared to ours. I am with others here who suggested that the biggest impact we can make is to not buy from factory farms. Hit them in the wallet as much as we can.
I also think it is important to mention about organic chickens. A friend of a friend owns a few houses that produce Coleman Organics chickens who are “cage free” or “free range”. To qualify as free range (and get paid more for his chickens) he had to build these little fenced areas attached to his chicken houses. The thing is the chickens don’t ever ever go out there. They either can’t walk that far or, sadly, are too stupid to do so. So... now I try to buy from a local organic farm whose chickens are pastured.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Btw in England, Germany, Belgium and th Netherlands there are volunteer organisations that organise rescue operations,

They buy chickens at the end of their economic life and house them a few weeks until they look a bit better. Then sell them to people who like yo buy rescues,

A lot of these chickens still lay very wel. But they often get health problems, Especially with the laying system. Rescues/hybrids never live long like the older breeds.

Aren’t there organisations in the US too who do this kind of works ?

I don't think so. Like I saud, the US has different regulations for factory farms. I was looking for rescues cause I wanted to do this tio, and I didn't find any for America besides the aspca and they can't rescue from factories

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

In the Netherlands and other countries in Europe things are changing really fast now. Most people don't eat meat/fish every anymore. More and more people become vegetarian and vegan.

It’s easy to do because in the grocery stores you can choose from a lot of veggie alternatives for meat. Made with (not gmo) soy, grains, lupine, beans, chickpeas etc. Some are made to taste like chicken or bef hamburger. Other are based on arabic recipes like falafel.
And beside that, there are lots of cooking recipes.

Here and in Belgium we had people who worked in the factory farms and meat industrie that have posted films about the cruelty. Children who saw these films refused to eat meat any longer.

And more people are aware that the factory farmers destroy our environment by NOx pollution and that they are responsible for the fires in Brazil for GMO soy to feed the farm animals, Things have to change. Or our world is no good place to live in within one or two decades.
Our nature is suffering allready .

• ¾ of the insects have died
• Some type of birds get sick and die
• Some type trees /plants get dick and die
• There are outbreaks from certain insects because they have no natural enemy.
• Plants like wild blackberries flourish and other get extinct,
• People get sick of the poisons used (a proven connection between Parkinson's disease and poidon used in the flower and bulbs industry)

And one way of doing this is to take responsibility as a consumer and stop eating (much) factory farm meat/eggs. Stop buying flowers unless you know there are no residues of poisons/ no poisons are used.

That may have some truth but you also have to take into effect the detrimental effect of farming produce for 7.8 billion people. Humans also need many essential micro- and macronutrients for good health that comes from animal protein. Studies show if Americans eliminated all animal protein from their diets, they would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by only 2.6% . If you want to go down the environmental path there are other pollutants that far out weight animal consumption.(We could start with China and the toxic fumes they unapologetically release into the environment every second of the day) Everyone can do what ever they need to do to make themselves feel like they are making a change but the truth is, animal production is not the fix all and not going anywhere.

 

[The Happster]

I was also recently looking around in my area to see if I could rescue any spent battery hens.
I sadly found nothing.