Animal group hits Koch Foods as company denies Chattanooga plant is inhumanely treating chickens

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The Times Free Press
Chattanooga, TN
Animal group hits Koch Foods as company denies Chattanooga plant is inhumanely treating chickens
by Mike Pare and Andy Sher

Koch Foods on Wednesday denied its Chattanooga processing plant is inhumanely treating chickens by scalding the birds alive and shackling them upside-down before slicing open their throats, wings and chests while still conscious.

The allegations by animal protection group Mercy for Animals were directed at a key player in an industry that employs nearly 20,000 people in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia, with four plants in Hamilton County.

The Los Angeles-based group released covert video that it said was taken inside the Koch Chattanooga plant and another operation in Mississippi, complaining that workers are also cruelly throwing chickens and hiding cockroaches from federal inspectors.

The video, narrated by The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, demanded that Illinois-based Koch adopt new animal welfare standards to prevent future abuse.... MORE at http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/nov/20/animal-group-hits-koch-foods-koch-denies-chattanoo/