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1980: Elizabeth
Elizabeth was one of thousands of chickens slated for death at a chicken slaughterhouse in Washington, D.C. When PETA rescued her, her beak had been cut off-a gruesome but routine procedure in the chicken factory-farming industry to keep stressed birds from hurting each other—and she was ill and weak from her weeks imprisoned in a crowded, filthy shed.
In one of its earliest actions, PETA demonstrated at the gates of the slaughterhouse, Arrow Live Poultry, to protest the cruelty that was commonplace there. Arrow's owner had been arrested for cruelty to animals when it was discovered that his employees were using blunt knives to slit chickens' throats and allowing conscious birds to bleed to death.
Elizabeth, who was covered in sores and lice, was nursed back to health and spent her life dustbathing, sunning herself, and enjoying the company of other chickens.
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