Guest guest Posted November 1, 2000 Report Share Posted November 1, 2000 STOP IMAGINE FOODS SELLING FREE RANGE CHICKEN BROTH ! ACTION ALERT FROM UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS Urge IMAGINE FOODS, INC. to Stop Selling Chicken Broth October 30, 2000 Please contact Imagine Foods, Inc., and urge them to STOP selling " organic free-range " chicken " broth. " Previously, Imagine Foods was a pioneer company committed to the sale of delicious vegan food products including Rice Dream, puddings, soups, and much more. Respectfully urge this company to get back on track. PLEASE also Request a written reply. Thanks! CALL/FAX/EMAIL: Cindy Howe, Consumer Relations Manager Imagine Foods, Inc. 1245 San Carlos Avenue San Carlos, CA 94070 Ph: 650-327-1444 Fax: 650-327-1459 1-800-333-6339, Ext 22 Email: Cindy or questions ================================ Dear friend, you may enclose the following documentation in your letter to Imagine Foods: (or simply include the following site in your letter): http://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html DOCUMENTATION ON " FREE RANGE " CHICKENS: Free-range hens are debeaked at the hatchery the same as battery-caged hens. Debeaking is a painful mutilation that impairs the hens' ability to eat normally and to preen (practice bodily hygiene). Typically, 2,000 or more hens - each hen having only 1 to 2 square feet of floor space - are confined in a shed without access to the outdoors during their lives. If the hens can go outside, the exit usually is very small allowing only the closest hens to get out. The yard may be nothing but a mud yard saturated with droppings and intestinal coccidia and other parasites. For free range to work, the land must be kept fresh. Hens spend much of their time close to the house, scratching, dust bathing, and wearing away the grass. A static house and pasture become unsanitary when hundreds or thousands of birds are collected in a small area. A system of rotation is needed. Free range does not solve the problem of oversized flocks, or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age-groups of their species and from other species. To date, there is no legal or commercial definition of husbandry terms regulating the sale of eggs in the U.S. There are no standards governing the term or the claim " range " or similar advertisements on egg cartons, such as " free running, " " free roaming, " or " free walking. " Though chickens can live active lives for 7 to 15 years, at the end of a year or two, " free-range " hens are hauled to slaughter the same as battery-caged hens. " Spent " fowl, regardless of whether they were caged or free-range, go to a slaughter plant, live poultry market, or live animal auction. " FREE-RANGE " MALE CHICKS ARE TRASHED AT BIRTH : Egg production produces " excess " roosters with no commercial value. (Over half of the chicks hatched are roosters.) For this reason, the baby brothers of the " free-range " hens are suffocated to death or ground up alive at the hatchery the same as those of battery-caged hens. (Source: http://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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