The terrifying practices of stopping ventilation and choking with fire-fighting foam are still authorized by law in US farms. An unprecedented cruelty against which the American animal rights associations have been fighting for some time (in vain)
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On farms in the United States, animals are often subjected to unspeakable atrocities: pigs, chickens and other species are smothered with fire-fighting foam and in other cases with boiling steam. All brutal practices, banned for some time in EU countries, but which unfortunately are still legal in the US. The spread of outbreaks of avian all over the world they have rekindled the debate among American animal rights associations who fear real massacres, such as those that have occurred in recent years. In fact, in 2015, over 50 million chickens and turkeys were culled to contain bird flu.
And in recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported some outbreaks in Maryland and South Dakota poultry farms. And in the event of epidemics, the most popular solutions are precisely the bloodiest for logistical and timing issues. In fact, most farmers opt for killing infected chickens and turkeys through carbon dioxide poisoning or smothering them with fire-fighting foam. According to estimates by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, every year in intensive farming are over 170 million animals (mainly chickens, pigs and cows) that are killed due to viruses or other diseases.
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Smothering with fire-fighting foam and stopping ventilation, two terrifying practices to be abolished
In particular, two inhumane practices are still legal in the United States. The first is that of suffocating animals with fire-fighting foam, which blocks the airways of chickens and turkeys and other species, causing them to die terribly. The second, on the other hand, is represented by the so-called stopping of ventilation, which consists in pumping hot steam (even up to 120 ° C) into the narrow spaces of the farm where the pigs are found until they suffocate. Not everyone dies right away. Many specimens remain alive and continue to suffer until they are shot and killed.
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In fact, the guidelines of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) state that the latter method should only be used if it is capable of killing 95% or more of the animals within an hour, but a recent survey conducted by the animal rights association Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) has confirmed that death can occur even after two and a half hours of appalling suffering.
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In the EU, killing animals by suffocation or steam stress would be illegal, although an emergency exemption could be obtained when adequate alternatives are not available - explains Peter Sandøe, professor of bioethics at the University of Copenhagen. - This is the main difference when it comes to the EU: we actually have common regulatory standards regarding animal welfare on farms, which are not found in the United States at the federal level.
Last year, a group of AVMA members tabled a resolution to discourage these brutal methods, but no law was introduced to ban them.
Several animal welfare organizations, including DxE, are lobbying federal authorities to outlaw these terrible practices. Banning them would not just mean protecting animals, but would help protect workers' mental health. According to a study conducted by DxE, in fact, 10% of veterinarians involved in the slaughter of company pigs thought about suicide and 23% admitted to needing psychological support.
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