Alarming Whistleblower Tip About Chicken Starvation, Mass Killing Site Tied to Pure Prairie Poultry

For Immediate Release:
October 11, 2024

Contact:
Sara Groves 202-483-7382

PETA has received an account from whistleblowers with ties to the floundering company Pure Prairie on October 8, reporting that chickens in Wisconsin sheds have gone unfed for more than a week—and have resorted to cannibalism—and there is neither food nor relief from their suffering in sight. Pure Prairie Chicken is no longer providing food and apparently refusing to respond to inquiries about when the birds will be picked up. PETA is urging the thus-far silent Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to intervene finally to spare the birds from impending starvation, as the Departments of Agriculture in Iowa and Minnesota started doing last week following PETA’s pleas to them. 

The whistleblowers also detailed to PETA that a truck filled with chickens recently entered a rural property outside Fountain City and returned empty, leading the source to suspect that the birds may have been cruelly killed. PETA alerted Buffalo County Sheriff Mike Osmond to the assertion, and he responded to us today that he had visited the site and confirmed that birds were being killed there.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. The group also offers a free vegan starter kit on its website for anyone ready to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.