{"id":759477,"date":"2020-01-29T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759477"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:46:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:46:33","slug":"exposed-free-range-chickens-saved-from-horrific-conditions-at-supplier-of-major-uk-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759477","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: \u2018Free range\u2019 chickens in horrific conditions at supplier of major UK supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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DxE: These animals deserve to have their voices heard and by entering this exploitation facility, our goal is to shine light on their experiences and be allies in their struggle against speciesism.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

HARRIET BREWIS:<\/strong> ‘Animal rights activists have exposed horrifying conditions at a chicken farm that supplies major supermarkets including Sainbury’s, Tesco and Morrison’s. Members of Brighton-based group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) stormed Hoads Farm in East Sussex yesterday, revealing squalid and cramped conditions scattered with what appear to be rotting hen corpses.<\/em><\/p>\n

Around 150 activists sporting protective gear marched on the chicken enclosures, demanding the release of 100 hens. Some nine hours after they entered the farm, they were filmed leaving cradling 50 “liberated” chickens in their arms. The rescued birds have since been filmed recovering in the DxE members\u2019 homes…<\/em><\/p>\n

Ethical food label RSPCA Assured said it was suspending Hoads Farm\u2019s welfare accreditation while it \u201curgently investigates\u201d conditions at the previously certified farm. It said in a statement to DxE, shared with the Standard: \u201cWe have very serious concerns about some of the hens and the conditions shown. Any allegations of poor welfare issues on RSPCA Assured certified farms are taken extremely seriously.\u201d The country\u2019s top supermarkets have sold so-called \u201cfree range\u201d eggs from the farm for years, at around \u00a32 for a box of six…<\/em><\/p>\n

DxE said its members had visited the farm on numerous occasions over the past few months, each time finding hens that were “visibly infected”, with decomposing dead birds left lying in the barns.\u201d An investigator said: \u201cWe visited Hoads Farm multiple times over 6 months. Many of the hens\u2019 cloacae, from which their eggs are laid, were visibly infected, bleeding and swollen from forced overproduction. \u201cIn the disease-ridden conditions, many piles of dead birds were found in the walkways among the living hens, and each time that we visited we found the same and new bodies decomposing”…<\/em><\/p>\n

Another spokeswoman from the group said: \u201cWe have taken action today that some may see as radical, but our actions must match the severity of what takes place behind those walls. \u201cThese animals deserve to have their voices heard and by entering this exploitation facility, our goal is to shine light on their experiences and be allies in their struggle against speciesism”.’<\/em>\u00a0 SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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