{"id":758943,"date":"2019-11-30T07:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758943"},"modified":"2019-11-30T07:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:41:32","slug":"exposed-birds-punched-beaten-at-australias-largest-chicken-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758943","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: Birds Punched, Beaten at Australia&#8217;s Largest Chicken Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The undercover eyewitness saw workers frequently punching live chickens in the head and bashing them against metal railings. Another worker repeatedly tearing birds\u2019 heads off.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;A PETA expos\u00e9 of Australia\u2019s largest chicken producer, Baiada, which slaughters approximately 35% of chickens raised for meat in Australia, found widespread cruelty in its breeding facility and slaughterhouse&#8230;Baiada reportedly supplies chicken flesh to McDonald\u2019s and has also supplied Pizza Hut&#8230; Baiada\u2019s slaughterhouse has closed-circuit TV cameras, but that didn\u2019t prevent the workers from using chickens as punching bags&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>At Baiada\u2019s breeding facility, the eyewitness saw many lame, injured, and sick birds. Because of the stress of severe crowding at the breeding facility, many birds fought with each other, often sustaining fatal injuries. Some of these injured birds&#8230; were left to suffer and die slowly and in pain. Others were grabbed by workers who crushed their necks under metal bars while yanking their legs and then left them to die in agony.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Chickens who survived this treatment at the breeding facility were sent to Baiada\u2019s slaughterhouse. There, the eyewitness saw workers frequently punching live chickens in the head and bashing them against metal railings before shackling them by the legs. Even though closed-circuit TV cameras at the slaughterhouse were operating, that didn\u2019t prevent the workers from abusing the frightened animals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>One worker told the eyewitness that he would \u201cjust start smashing birds.\u201d The eyewitness saw another worker repeatedly tearing birds\u2019 heads off\u2014and even putting a severed head on his finger and wiggling it like a finger puppet. Even though they were run through an electrified water bath intended to stun them, many chickens were still fully conscious when their throats were slit with a spinning blade. A worker then manually slit the throats of those who hadn\u2019t been killed by the blade&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/investigations.peta.org\/baiada-chickens-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-S5eDoxYXo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;A PETA expos\u00e9 of Australia\u2019s largest chicken producer, Baiada, which slaughters approximately 35% of chickens raised for meat in Australia, found widespread cruelty in its breeding facility and slaughterhouse&#8230;Baiada reportedly supplies chicken flesh to McDonald\u2019s and has also supplied Pizza Hut&#8230; Baiada\u2019s slaughterhouse has closed-circuit TV cameras, but that didn\u2019t prevent the workers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35],"class_list":["post-758943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758945,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758943\/revisions\/758945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}