{"id":5147,"date":"2017-12-06T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wesign.conikal.com\/simple\/petition\/tell-usda-stop-excluding-98-percent-of-animals-from-the-humane-slaughter-act\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T07:30:13","slug":"tell-usda-stop-excluding-98-percent-of-animals-from-the-humane-slaughter-act","status":"publish","type":"petition","link":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/petition\/tell-usda-stop-excluding-98-percent-of-animals-from-the-humane-slaughter-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop excluding 98 percent of animals from the humane slaughter act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the United States Department of Agriculture has decided that the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act doesn\u2019t apply to poultry, who make up 98 percent of all land animals slaughtered for food?<\/p>\n<p>As a result, nearly 9 billion animals each year are killed in the most horrific and brutal ways.<\/p>\n<p>Please take 20 seconds to speak out against this unconscionable animal abuse by signing Mercy For Animals\u2019 petition calling on the USDA to start protecting chickens, turkeys, and all other poultry under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations by Mercy For Animals, including shocking hidden-camera expos\u00e9s of slaughterhouses owned by Tyson and Foster Farms, have repeatedly documented birds violently shackled upside down, painfully shocked with electricity, cut open, and sometimes even scalded alive in hot water tanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These abuses must end! But we need your help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mercy For Animals has filed a historic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mfa.cachefly.net\/mfa\/images\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Petition-for-Rulemaking-Submitted-by-Mercy-For-Animals-to-FSIS-11.15.17.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">petition<\/a>\u00a0urging the USDA to start including poultry under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The USDA needs to hear from as many Americans as possible that we want meaningful regulations that end the cruelest slaughter practices. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please sign our petition calling on the USDA to include protections for poultry under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Once you\u2019ve signed, please share this petition on social media!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","petition_category":[32],"petition_topics":[108,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition\/5147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/petition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"petition_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_category?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"petition_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_topics?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}