World Animal Protection sent an undercover investigator to bird mills that supply pet stores across the US. What they found was truly horrific.
As you read this, tens of thousands of birds are being held in small, filth-encrusted cages—deprived of the ability to fly or feel the sun on their wings.

At breeding mills licensed by the US Department of Agriculture, our investigator witnessed:
• Thousands of birds confined in tiny cages covered in feces and dust.
• Birds left vulnerable to the elements, enduring blistering heat in the summer and freezing cold in the winter, with little or no protection.
• A mill owner admitting to suffocating birds in a plastic bag.
• A garbage bin overflowing with dead birds and severed body parts.
• And, in some cases, birds confined in cages alongside rats—and even the decomposing bodies of dead rats.
Every day, these birds endure severe suffering: confinement in barren cages, ignored illnesses—all while being forced to suffer an unending cycle of laying eggs. And at the end, their babies are stolen from them.

These mills aren’t a few “bad apples”—this is how the industry runs. It treats parrots like commodities, like they’re “things” that belong on shelves.

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