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Bird Mills Are Puppy Mills With Wings

This month, we’re bringing you an important conversation with Pete Paxton, an undercover investigator, author, and advocate who has spent decades documenting conditions inside factory farms, slaughterhouses, puppy mills, fishing vessels, and other animal industries.

Most recently, Pete went undercover inside a large-scale bird breeding operation, giving him a firsthand look at a part of the commercial bird trade that often remains hidden from public view.

In this first segment, Pete explains why, when he talks about bird breeding operations, he finds himself returning to one comparison: puppy mills.

Parrots approached the cages, called out for attention, and tried to interact. Pete saw the same desperate need for social connection he had witnessed in dogs confined in puppy mills. Along with a similar commercial system built around breeding animals for sale.

But there is one difference that Pete finds especially difficult to forget: Birds have wings.

stay tuned for the rest of our conversation with Pete, and follow along as we continue exploring what he witnessed, the larger systems behind the commercial bird trade, and what all of us can do to help create meaningful change.

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