If you own chickens, you will wanna sign this!!!

[Sillystunt]

Send a strong message to key officials in the House and Senate Committee on Agriculture, as well as other key officials with leadership on similar issues. Currently birds are not protected under the federal Animal Welfare Act, nor the Humane Slaughter Act.



http://www.change.org/petitions/protect-birds-under-the-humane-slaughter-act

 

[Sillystunt]

looks like more people have signed & the numbers rise!!!

 

[Woodcutterron]

Well, online petitions are next to worthless. Wish that weren't so . . . but they are. Hard petitions with actual signatures can get noticed, but when written as poorly as this one is . . . well . . . feel free to sign it if ya want, because it won't accomplish a thing.
Here is the reality. It's a petition that bases it's entire premise on "what some guy says he saw" and then a vague reference to "studies" that claim to support the position. I mean really . . . it's a farce.

Who is the anonymous "guy" who saw eyes bug out or whatever? What studies? Have those studies been published in a recognized scientific Journal for peer review? Who performed these "studies"? What are their qualifications?

Frankly, if I were a Civics teacher and an seventh grader turned this petition in as a class project, I'd fail them for being so lax in their presentation. Presenting this to the legislature . . . how embarrassing is that? Put my name on that? No thanks.