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Originally Posted: March 17, 2012
[Ed. Note: Also read A Hen Learns to Eat Again and Workers rescue over 4,000 hens from factory farm.]
FROM United Poultry Concerns (UPC) and Harvest Home
ACTION
Tell Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office to Prosecute Andy Keung Cheung for willfully starving 50,000 chickens.
Sign an online petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/stanislaus-county-district-attorney-s-office-prosecute-andy-keung-cheung-for-willfully-starving-50-000-chickens
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Birgit Fladager
District Attorney
832 12th Street, Suite 300
Modesto, California 95354
(209) 525-5550
Investigations:
phone (209) 525-5582 or 525-5581
fax (209) 558-4047
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
About this Petition and Why It is Important to Add Your Signature Now.
In the face of mounting feed costs, Andy Keung Cheung, the owner of A&L Poultry (Stanislaus County, California), abandoned his farm's 50,000 egg-laying hens in February 2012. For at least two weeks, the chickens at his farm were denied food.
Nearly one-third of the chickens perished before Stanislaus County Animal Services was notified of this large-scale animal neglect case. With the authorization of county and state officials, a concerted effort to help the surviving chickens was spearheaded by Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary, Animal Place and Farm Sanctuary.
This emergency effort is the largest farmed animal rescue in California history. We are calling on the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office to prosecute A&L Poultry's Andy Keung Cheung for willfully starving 50,000 chickens.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!