Chickens Severely Mistreated at "Humane" California Slaughterhouse, New Video Alleges
In June 2015, the animal rights organization Mercy for Animals sent two investigators to work as undercover employees at a slaughterhouse run by Foster Farms. They documented workers throwing live chickens against metal shackles, birds being scalded alive, and other treatment that the group argued amounted to animal cruelty. Mercy for Animals complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Foster Farms labeling of its products as certified by the American Humane Association, or AHA, deceived consumers. The agency declined to take action, though, noting that the company fired employees suspected of abuse, passed an audit, and installed its own video monitoring system.
New footage from Foster Farms, Californias largest poultry producer, shows the company continuing to engage in similar behavior that activists allege amounts to cruel treatment of live chickens. Foster Farms, which was recertified by the AHA earlier this year, has been on the receiving end of millions of dollars in state and local subsidies to expand its product lines in California.
The recent footage, obtained by an anonymous videographer and provided to The Intercept by animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, shows workers throwing live chickens on the concrete floor; discarded yet conscious birds under the weight of one another; some chickens missing electrical waterbaths designed to stun them before slaughter all under the supervision of employees working dangerous and long shifts in the dark. The videographer, who requested anonymity to avoid repercussions for sharing the footage, entered the companys facility in Livingston, California, to set up miniature infrared cameras and obtain hundreds of hours of footage, recorded over the past several weeks. Foster Farms did not respond to a request for comment.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/29/animal-cruelty-chickens-foster-farms-humane/
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(20 posts)I am sick of these stories. This really angered me:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/17/the-us-has-a-silent-pig-pandemic-on-its-doorstep-once-again
So basically more humane small farms are not ok. However, cafos are fine. When will we stop doing this shit?
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(64,594 posts)"humane slaughterhouse" is an oxymoron.
#directaction