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Persuasive Essay On Perdue Farms

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In nature, chickens form friendships and alphas, they recognize one another, love and care for their young, making nests, and so on and so forth. This is not available to chickens in Perdue farms. In many different chicken farms, chickens are force to live in unnatural conditions, such as crowded warehouses, standing and laying in their own feces, and not being able to stand for very long due to their very heavy weight. Chickens should be allowed lots of space and free roaming, they shouldn’t be living in their own diseased filled filth. Despite what these farms and companies say, that their chickens have space and are clean, Chickens are treated terribly and forced to live in unnatural conditions because the farms abuse these animals and people need to know so we can do something about it.
Back in 2010 The Humane Society of the United States filed a class action lawsuit against Maryland’s Perdue Farms, accusing the nation's 3rd largest chicken producer of falsely advertising its chickens as "humanely raised". The suit was brought on behalf of a New Jersey woman who bought chicken at a BJ's Wholesale Club keeping the Harvest land label, a trade name used by Perdue for birds raised in Kentucky and marketed as …show more content…

Luna, Perdue's vice president for communications. I have found a video of ex chicken farmer, Craig Watts, for Perdue farms and he states that they have abused the chickens their whole lives. “Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness…. I don’t know where to draw the lines. But when chickens have huge open bedsores on their undersides, I wonder if that isn’t less animal husbandry than animal abuse.” A quote from Craig Watts, an ex-chicken farmer of Perdue

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