Who was coordinating farmed animal rescue?
When we first decided to do this, we were in touch with individuals from PETA, HSUS, Compassion Over Killing and Farm Sanctuary in the area. Right after the hurricane hit, they brought a total of 1,700 chickens to farm sanctuaries across the Northeast. We found that a lot of factory farms had caught wind [no pun intended] that the hurricane was going to be bad. The USDA was present at the shelter set up by the HSUS and they told us that the farmers were told to get their animals out of there if they wanted to sustain their income from those animals. So they trucked a lot of the animals out, either to slaughterhouses or other facilities. When we got down there a week and a half later, a lot of these places were either a) empty, b) hit so hard that the buildings and the chickens were crushed, or c) the chickens who weren’t crushed had since died of starvation or thirst. It is eye-opening and alarming that the farmers had better warning to prepare and get their animals out of there, unlik
