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In the next part of our conversation with undercover investigator, author, and advocate Pete Paxton, Pete describes what he believes the public would find most shocking about a large-scale commercial bird-breeding operation:
“I think the public would be shocked by all of it.”
Online, people may see images of small-scale breeders and imagine something very different from what Pete encountered. Instead, he describes rows of wire cages—food, water, perhaps a perch and nesting box, but little to occupy the intelligent, social birds living inside them. Cage after cage, stacked together.
Having previously investigated puppy mills, the similarities were impossible for Pete to ignore.
His description is simple and difficult to forget:
“This is like a bird prison.”
Go back and watch other segments of our conversation with Pete as we continue looking behind the scenes of the commercial bird trade.
Birds are more than products. Don’t support the commercial bird trade.
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Thoughts from Foster Parrots and the New England Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary:
The enormous volume of unwanted parrots being fielded by the rescue community indicates an epidemic failure of parrots as pets. But whose failure is it, really?
We as humans have done everything in our power to manipulate parrots and to alter and change them to fit better into our lives. Clip their wings and confine them to cages... Remove them from their families and from their flocks and instead try to fit them into ours... Reject their language and expect them to recite our words... Genetically alter their colors and the contours of their feathers to create designer birds... We render them utterly dependent upon us and then, when we find we cannot entirely eradicate the true nature of the animal, we abandon them.
Some of these parrots will find their way to a sanctuary or rescue organization. Millions will not.
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