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CHICKEN SLAUGHTERHOUSE HORRORS
A former slaughterhouse worker for one of America's largest
chicken processors in Arkansas witnessed so many acts of cruelty
toward chickens on a daily basis that he quit his job at the plant.
Here are just a few of the horrific acts too often witnessed.
A shift supervisor turns down the "stunner" which humanely stuns
the chickens before they are killed. This results in chickens being
scalded to death in the scalding tank! When this happens the chickens
scream and kick so fiercely while being scalded to death that their
bodies come apart in the struggle, even their eyes pop out of their
heads! The stunner is turned down to keep the processing line moving
faster so always more chickens get processed which may please
slaughterhouse management!
Also because the processing line must operate at such high speed
to please plant management, processing-line supervisors may allow the
shackle area to become overloaded with chickens causing hundreds of
birds a day to die from smothering! Supervisors would rather lose
hundreds of birds to smothering than risk being reprimanded for not
filling up all the shackles with birds and allowing empty shackles to
go down the processing production line!
The freezing cold and searing heat during different times of year
may also contribute to frustration among slaughterhouse employees
which is inhumane to people as well as the birds. The birds may too
often die of heat stroke, heart attack and suffocation during the
extremely hot and cold months.
. Frustrated employees may lead to cruel attacks on the birds too!
Employees too often may build dry ice bombs and put them on the
processing line with live chickens. When it explodes it rips the live
birds apart and scatters body parts all over the floor.
Low-paid, frustrated slaughterhouse employees too often stomp
birds to death and rip the heads, legs and wings off of live chickens
and run over live chickens with a forklift then laugh about it!
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: FARM SANCTUARY NEWS SUMMER 2003
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