06-15-2017, 03:34 PM
Mercy For Animals sent an undercover worker into chicken farms in British Columbia, Canada. He was part of a team catching chickens for shipment to the slaughterhouse. The video is shocking. The treatment of the chickens is a horrible example of animal abuse.
The company doing the catching is Elite Farm Services and the chickens are being slaughtered for Sofina Foods, who sells its chickens under the Lilydale brand to stores like Loblaws and Safeway.
There are a number of videos in the link. They are all worth watching.
http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0
They have fired the workers involved, but really they are being fired for being caught on camera. The whole poultry industry is full of chicken abuse. All the other workers in the industry are still working and I doubt they are treating the chickens well.
The companies involved are now blaming and firing employees, but they are not really accepting responsibility. If they did know they are condoning the abuse. If they didn't know then they are negligent in their duty. They should know what their employees are doing.
There needs to be a lot more oversight in the poultry industry. Maybe we should stop calling it an industry. After all we are taking about living beings that are raised to be killed. The abuse seems to be inherent in the system. I don't know if it can be fixed.
I am waiting to hear how companies like Loblaws will respond.
If they don't respond then we should consider shopping elsewhere.
The company doing the catching is Elite Farm Services and the chickens are being slaughtered for Sofina Foods, who sells its chickens under the Lilydale brand to stores like Loblaws and Safeway.
There are a number of videos in the link. They are all worth watching.
http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0
They have fired the workers involved, but really they are being fired for being caught on camera. The whole poultry industry is full of chicken abuse. All the other workers in the industry are still working and I doubt they are treating the chickens well.
The companies involved are now blaming and firing employees, but they are not really accepting responsibility. If they did know they are condoning the abuse. If they didn't know then they are negligent in their duty. They should know what their employees are doing.
There needs to be a lot more oversight in the poultry industry. Maybe we should stop calling it an industry. After all we are taking about living beings that are raised to be killed. The abuse seems to be inherent in the system. I don't know if it can be fixed.
I am waiting to hear how companies like Loblaws will respond.
If they don't respond then we should consider shopping elsewhere.
Catherine