TENNESSEE -- Mercy For Animals exposes horrific animal cruelty and neglect at Tyson Foods in a new video, available today at www.TysonTorturesAnimals.com.
The video shows thousands of baby birds bred to grow so fast they became crippled under their own weight, workers carelessly kicking, clubbing, and throwing chickens, and thousands of severely sick and injured animals left to suffer without proper veterinary care or access to food and water.
These chickens should be called Franken-chickens. This chicken is still alive and can be seen breathing and blinking in the video. |
Most of the video was shot within the past few weeks at a Tyson contract farm in Lewisburg, Tennessee, but it also includes footage from multiple Mercy For Animals investigations within the past year at Tyson factory farms and slaughterhouses across the country.
These birds are alive and seen breathing and blinking in the video |
The disturbing video—part of a major campaign to convince Tyson executives to end the company's cruelest practices—reveals widespread animal abuse and suffering, including the following:
- Workers violently clubbing animals to death, breaking their necks, and leaving severely sick and injured animals to die without food or water
- Baby birds carelessly thrown to the ground from transport crates suffering broken bones and other severe injuries
- Chickens bred to grow so fast they became crippled under their own weight and frequently died from heart attacks and organ failure
- Hundreds of thousands of birds crammed into filthy, windowless sheds forced to live in their own waste and toxic ammonia fumes
"Tyson Foods is literally torturing chickens to death," said Nathan Runkle, president of Mercy For Animals. "They are crammed into filthy, windowless sheds; thrown, kicked, and brutalized by careless workers; and bred to grow so fast they suffer from painful leg deformities and heart attacks.
"This is sickening animal abuse no company with morals should support. Tyson Foods has not only the power, but also the ethical responsibility to end the worst forms of animal cruelty in its supply chain."
To view the undercover video, visit www.TysonTorturesAnimals.com.
(PR Newswire - May 25, 2016)
Thank you for your bravery in watching this footage while so many others turn away.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the US demands such an incredible amount of meat and animal products at super-cheap prices, these animals will be necessity be factory-farmed and slaughtered in these hideous facilities.
Think of applying the "3 R's" to your diet--Reduce the amount of animal foods you consume; Replace these products with meat-free alternatives; and Refine your shopping habits so you when you do eat animal products, you choose those from more humanely raised animals.
It's much easier to make humane changes to your diet if, instead of "subtracting" things, you simply crowd them out instead with more humane alternatives. For example, you might make your usual chicken breast dishes with Beyond Meat's "chick'n" strips instead. Just take it one meal at a time.
I would never buy anything from Tyson even if I hadn't watched that video. I've always heard how awful the "raising" and treatment of chickens is at that and other large manufacturers.
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