Saturday, November 19, 2011

McDonald's Animal Cruelty: McDonald's Drops Supplier Sparboe Egg Farms After Undercover Investigation (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/mcdonalds-animal-cruelty_n_1101519.html



Mercy For Animals, known for exposing instances of animal cruelty across the country, has just released its newest undercover footage. The video, which was shot at McDonald's egg supplier Sparboe Egg Farms, the fifth largest egg supplier in the country, shows various acts of animal cruelty including:

Hens crammed into wire cages

Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks and throwing them into cages

Workers grabbing hens by their throats and ramming them into battery cages

Rotted hens and decomposed birds left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption

A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device

A worker shoving a bird into the pocket of another employee

Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire, others with open wounds and torn beaks

Live chicks thrown into plastic bags to be suffocated

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