Ripping the heads off live chickens

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Published on Wednesday, 28 October 2015 15:15
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PAOV – There's a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it.

Tell Tyson to Stop Ripping Heads Off Live Chickens

Candice Bergen and Mercy For Animals Sign the petition

Hi, I’m Candice Bergen.

If you’re like me, you would never condone animal abuse. But if you eat chicken from Tyson Foods (which supplies McDonald’s, KFC, Chick-fil-A, and more), you may be unknowingly supporting some of the most sickening animal abuse imaginable.

How do I know? Multiple undercover investigations by Mercy For Animals have uncovered ongoing and systemic animal abuse at Tyson Foods. Most recently, a brave investigator used a hidden camera to document conditions at a Tyson slaughterhouse in Mississippi.

What he witnessed was beyond disgusting.

I watched the video in horror as workers who seemed to take pleasure in tormenting the frightened birds punched, beat, and threw the animals before violently slamming them upside down into metal shackles.

One worker even used the shackled live birds as punching bags.

The birds were then painfully shocked with electricity to immobilize their bodies before having their throats cut open. The investigator documented countless birds who weren’t shackled properly getting their heads ripped off while they were still alive and conscious.

The investigator reported these abuses to his supervisor on multiple occasions. He even called the Tyson Foods hotline to report the daily cruelty he had witnessed. But he saw no corrective actions taken. At Tyson Foods, extreme cruelty to animals is just business as usual.

But I think we can change that.

Because of caring people like you, who sign petitions like this and use their voices to speak up for the voiceless, we’ve already seen some of the biggest food companies make important changes.

For example, after hearing from thousands of people through Change.org, Nestlé, Walmart, and Starbucks all made commitments to ending some of the worst forms of factory farm cruelty in their global supply chains. There’s no reason Tyson Foods can’t do the same.

Please, take a moment to sign my petition calling on Tyson Foods to implement meaningful animal welfare changes.

Thank you.

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