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The Ethics of Shipping Live Animals

The Chick’s in the Mail? Rural America Faces New Worries With Postal CrisisThe Postal Service is crucial to farmers and rural areas that President Trump won in 2016. Now, residents worry it is being dismantled.

Animal cruelty or business as usual?The shipping of live animals is a standard practice of the U.S. Post Office.

Disturbing Delivery: Dead baby chickens delivered to feed store ownerA Port Arthur feed store owner said she is upset with a USPS mail carrier after her chicks were left in the back of an unair-conditioned mail car for 4-5 hours.

Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollarsSeveral Maine poultry farms have received shipments of hundreds of chicks that died while being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, either because the shipments were delayed or mishandled.

Animals Aren't 'Freight': 11 Ways You Can Help Them | PETANo rest, no relief, and no escape. Live-animal transport is a trip from hell.

Demand the Government Ban Live-Animal Export!Every year, hundreds of thousands of animals are crammed onto lorries and ships for journeys from the UK to the EU and beyond that can last days. Tell the government to end this cruelty now.

Letter to the Postmaster General: Stop the Cruel Practice of Shipping Live Animals - Farm Sanctuary

Day-Old Chicks Are Dying in the Mail by the Thousands Due to USPS ChaosBaby chicks mailed to farmers via the USPS have been dying at unprecedented rates — but should we be mailing them in the first place?

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