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Take Action: USDA: Get Rid of the Gas Chamber!
Gas chamber euthanasia is a barbaric practice that's still legal in most states. Take action now!
3/29/11: 35,939 signatures sent to Secretary Tom Vilsack. Please continue to sign for this important cause if you haven't already!
11/14/11: 28,042 signatures sent to Secretary Tom Vilsack. Please continue to sign for this important cause if you haven't already!
Goal: 75,000
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Progress: 78,166
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Many animal shelters in America are still using the archaic and cruel gas chamber euthanization method. This practice involves putting animals into a small room and unleashing deadly carbon monoxide gas, which eventually suffocates them. There have been reports of animals becoming extremely unsettled and crying during this process.
The most widely-accepted method of euthanasia in the United States is the injection of sodium pentobarbital — a substance that can quickly and painlessly end an animal's life. With this information in mind, there is simply no reason the gas chamber practice should be allowed to continue.
Gas chamber euthanasia remains legal in at least 30 states. Sign the petition urging Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to outlaw this inhumane and barbarous practice in all 50 states.
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
I am appalled to learn that gas chamber euthanasia is still a viable method of putting animals to sleep in some states. Gas chambers have been largely ruled out as inhumane for humans who are to be put to death, yet it remains permissible for animals. I don't see how this makes any sense.
In fact, there have been reports from animal shelters who claim that, upon release of the deadly gases, animals become extremely unnerved, fight with each other, gasp for breath, and cry out in pain.
At least twenty states now outlaw this barbaric euthanasia method, but that means it's still legal within the majority of the United States. With the existence of cheaper and more effective alternatives, lethal injection in particular, it's a wonder why this process is still allowed at all.
Please lend your influence and expertise to see that gas chamber euthanasia is done away with once and for all.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Catherine Burbury
May 14, 2013
Lisa Rex
May 14, 2013
jenn rhoads
May 14, 2013
john wilson
May 14, 2013
Patrick Newcomb
I am appalled that this method is still being used. It is a horrible death. Please see that this method of euthanasia is outlawed in all 50 states.
May 14, 2013
Klaus gass
May 14, 2013
Judy Talley
May 14, 2013
Chris Martino
May 14, 2013
Lynda Ferrara
May 14, 2013
Linda Woodard
May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
mandy belcher
May 13, 2013
Sandra Lacoss
I thought this Hideous, Barbaric method was outlawed years ago!
May 13, 2013
Briana Camp
May 12, 2013
Debra Mitzel
May 12, 2013
Shirley Martin
Please walk into the 21st century and place this cruel, horrible practice into the past, where it belongs.
May 12, 2013
Stefania Nobile
Appalling!
May 12, 2013
Nicole Matier
May 12, 2013
Vickie McClintock
May 11, 2013
Becky Nelson
May 11, 2013
meghan tighe
May 11, 2013
Vicki Wright
May 11, 2013
Natalie Beens
May 11, 2013
Kirsty Bingham
May 11, 2013
Cheryl Whitley
May 11, 2013
Caroline Murphy
May 11, 2013
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May 11, 2013
gretchen kost
May 10, 2013
JOHN FUENTES
May 10, 2013
Olivia Charbeneau
May 10, 2013
Karen Sweeney
May 10, 2013
Irena Hodzic
May 10, 2013
Donna Baker
Even archaic Nashville, TN got rid of the gas chambers 2 decades ago. They are cruel and barbaric and if you are going to kill something, do it with no suffering to other living things.
You should be ashamed!
May 10, 2013
Robardelle Magali
May 10, 2013
Jeanie Hulen
this is awful what they do to dogs
May 10, 2013
Lynda Hughes
May 9, 2013
Kathy Govreau
May 9, 2013
christopher goetz
May 9, 2013
Aline Juncarol
May 9, 2013
sue waterman
May 9, 2013
Veroy Tison
May 9, 2013
Lisa Lewis
May 9, 2013
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May 9, 2013
Marianne Aslin
May 9, 2013
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May 9, 2013
Lucia Nocentini
May 9, 2013
Kristine Jönsson
May 8, 2013
Ms. Carla Compton, Advocate/Activist
May 8, 2013
juli bryan
would YOU like to die that way? Didnt think so...why should they? Hell child killers get off easier than an innocent animal..,THIS is whats wrong with society today...kill the killers NOT the innocent!
May 8, 2013
Ashley Miller
