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If you are unlucky enough to be a chicken sent to slaughter, there’s a chance you will be boiled alive in a scalding tank. The National Chicken Council is now making a bid to lift slaughter speed restrictions which will see even more animals endure this gruesome torture. We must speak up NOW to stop this!

Former Tyson slaughterhouse employee, Virgil Butler, provides a first-hand account of the horrific consequences of fast line speeds:

"I was responsible for trying to slit the throats of the chickens the machine missed on the nights I worked the killing room. Our line runs 182 shackles per minute. It is physically impossible to check them all. Therefore, they are scalded alive. When this happens, the chickens scream, kick, and their eyeballs pop out of their heads. They often come out of the other end with broken bones and disfigured and missing body parts because they've struggled so much in the tank.”

The chicken industry mercilessly calls these birds “redskins.” The current 2014 ruling under the Food Safety and Inspection Service allows line speeds of up to 140 birds per minute – that’s 2.3 birds every second! Now the National Chicken Council has asked the Food Safety and Inspection Service to waive this rule so that slaughter lines can go even faster!

It’s bad enough that all birds are excluded from the “Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.” We cannot allow the National Chicken Council to make even more animals suffer this horrific death. Whether you still eat chickens or not, please help us stop the increased suffering!

What You Can Do

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