Animal Justice Project's Claire Palmer said: 'chickens are subjected to cruel abuse, pain and suffering regardless of labels. The public is being fed a lie by the industry, the RSPCA, and even other animal welfare organisations'.
JACK WRIGHT: ‘Tesco has suspended one of its chicken suppliers after an undercover investigation revealed workers abused the animals before slaughter. In a three-month investigation conducted by Welfare group Animal Just Project, farmers at Trees Farm and Brome Grange in Suffolk were seen kicking, yelling and snapping chickens’ necks in harrowing scenes. The animals who had suffered the abuse were supposedly reared in “high welfare” environments and were classed as “slow-growing” meat or “broiler” chickens.
Animal Just Project is urging the RSPCA to prosecute those who were caught breaching the RSPCA’s code and the EU law. The pressure group has also submitted their findings to Red Tractor and Animal Health and Protection Agency (APHA). Investigators who worked undercover between February and May claim they witnessed nearly 500 chicks dying in their first week at one of the farms, with many being kicked, thrown, and having their necks snapped. They allege that one chick with a snapped neck was recorded as being left eight hours to die in pain.
Farm workers were also found breaking the necks of adult birds, and threw them convulsing on the ground to die or to flap off, it is claimed. One worker even urinated into a bucket before throwing live but seriously impaired birds into it eight hours later. Teams were regularly caught cursing, throwing, kicking, and slamming birds into crates during catching for slaughter at the RSPCA-certified farm, the investigators claim…
Animal Justice Project founder Claire Palmer said that “chickens are subjected to cruel abuse, pain and suffering regardless of labels”. She claimed the public is “being fed a lie by the industry” and said the only solution to protect animals was for consumers to quit meat and start vegan dieting… “The public is being fed a lie by the industry, the RSPCA, and even other animal welfare organisations. Slow growing birds still suffer’. SOURCE…
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