Monday, August 15, 2016

HSUS targets broiler chicken industry


First it was sow gestation crates, then laying-hen cages and now the Humane Society of the United States is going after the broiler chicken industry.

It has called for meetings with all of the major growers and processors to copy a deal HSUS reached with Purdue Farms.

It includes commitments to convert all its slaughterhouses to Controlled Atmosphere Stunning (CAS); to start installing windows to provide birds natural light and adding enrichments; testing slower-growing birds, and providing more space per bird.

HSUS pushed the hog industry to move sows out of gestation crates by pressuring retailers to set deadlines beyond which they want their pork to come from farms that don’t use the crates.

It did the same for caged hens.


What started in the United States then migrated to Canada.