* Most livestock are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or other means that is rapid and effective, before being slaughtered.
-There are no federal welfare laws governing slaughter of poultry in the United States.
-Birds experience pain and suffering in the same way as humans and other animals; they have the same nociceptors-pain receptors-as do humans.
-Common slaughter methods are not humane. See: www.upc-online.org/slaughter/report
-Add poultry to the Humane Slaughter Act of 1978
*Laying hens now live in 69 square inches, a smaller area than a sheet of printer paper.
"This is comparable to a grown human spending a lifetime in a bathtub with 4 other people," ref: Bruce Friedrich.
Adopt the California standard of 116 sq inches nationwide. Give them room to spread their wings