LTE, PETA, wind

RE: wind

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·         Katherine Nunez 

To:whipple1078@yahoo.com

‎Sep‎ ‎18‎, ‎2018 at ‎1‎:‎33‎ ‎PM

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for your membership support and for contacting PETA regarding the effects of wind turbines on wildlife. PETA shares your concern for the birds and bats who are maimed and killed by wind turbines as well as the young who are left behind when their parents cannot return to the nest or roost. We support design improvements that reduce harm to animals.

It’s important to keep in mind that traditional fuel sources can be just as devastating to wildlife through habitat destruction, production of poisonous gases, and pollution. In one of PETA’s historic victories, we persuaded Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing them how millions of birds and bats had become trapped in the shafts and were burned to death. PETA also called for criminal cruelty-to-animals charges against BP in the wake of the 2010 oil-spill tragedy that devastated animals and habitats in the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ingrid-newkirk/adding-animal-cruelty-to_b_611080.html).

Another organization that works to protect birds from the many threats to them is the American Bird Conservancy (http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/collisions/index.html). We encourage you to contact this group for more information on bird collisions with wind turbines. Bat Conservation International (http://www.batcon.org/our-work/regions/usa-canada/address-serious-threats/wind-energy) is another group working on this issue. You can also contact the National Audubon Society by filling out the form at http://www.audubon.org/contact-us.

Please know that the one bird species that humans subject to the most suffering is also the easiest species to help. More than 9 billion chickens are raised on factory farms each year in the U.S., where, to maximize profits, producers raise as many animals as they can in the least amount of space possible. Crowded into filthy cages or sheds, many of these animals never feel the warmth of the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, or do anything that is natural to them. Chickens raised for their flesh, called “broilers” by the meat industry, spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and leg deformities common. Many become crippled by their own weight and eventually die because they can’t reach food or water. When they’re only 6 or 7 weeks old, they’re crammed into small cages and trucked to slaughter through all weather extremes. Hundreds of millions of chickens sustain broken wings and legs because of rough handling, and millions die from the stress of the journey.

At the slaughterhouse, the chickens’ legs are forced into shackles, their throats are cut, and they are immersed in scalding-hot water in order to remove their feathers. Because they have no federal legal protection (birds are exempt from the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act), most are still conscious when their throats are cut open, and many are scalded to death in the feather-removal tanks.

If you haven’t already, please consider sparing birds a miserable life and a violent death by taking them—and all animals—off your plate. Humans don’t need to eat meat: In fact, we’re healthier if we don’t. For thousands of free vegan recipes, health and shopping tips, and more, please visit http://www.PETA.org.

For more ideas about ways to help animals, please visit http://www.PETA.org/action/. To learn about just a few of PETA’s victories for wildlife, please see http://www.PETA.org/category/main-issues/wildlife/?post_type=victory. To make a donation to PETA, please go to http://www.PETA.org/donate.

Thanks again for contacting us and for everything that you do to help animals.

Sincerely,

Katherine Nunez

Membership Correspondent

PETA Foundation

http://www.PETA.org

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From: Daniel Barker <whipple1078@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 3:57 PM
To: Tiffany Rose <TiffanyR@peta.org>
Subject: wind

Tiffany Rose

PETA

Tiffany Rose, I am member 46247, ID 888779302.  First, I wish to address your site management.  A good Internet site when members renew their dues, the site has a form you enter your member number or ID, the computer fills out the rest of the form.

My reason for writing is wind mill.  We know that burning fuel harms wildlife, from acid rain to the fuel exhaust has pollution to soil pollution and more.  We know some promote wind mill.  What is the damage or threat to wildlife from wind blades.  We know bats when subjected to rapid change in air pressure experience the bends.

Daniel Barker

6339 Egret Dr.

Lakeland, FL  33809