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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

 

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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 )

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