Chicks crushed, drowned and mutilated in one of the most important plants in the United States: Animal Equality ‘investigators’, undercover, entered a hatchery of a company in Waterford, California and documented “serious violence” against the animals.
The company supplies American Humane Association certified chicken-based products to large American food supply chains and fast food chains. In the hatchery of the company, the Animal Equality investigator was able to immortalize chicks born just an hour ago crushed and shredded alive and conscious in machinery set up for what they call ‘disposal’. The chicks are mutilated while still conscious, left with their bodies torn apart and then abandoned for hours before being put in the meat grinder.
Animal Equality also captured some chicks trapped in hatching trays after surviving burns in the effective usable washing process – as an automated process at the plant did not apply safeguards to prevent these chances of possible deaths.
The shock investigation: the cruelty of industrial chicken incubators
The Animal Equality investigation revealed serious criminal violations, documented by both undercover footage and statements by employees at the company as eyewitness accounts. In particular, the images collected: newborn chicks crushed or mutilated by automated machinery; chicks drowned in water and chemical foam on farm floors under conveyor belts; a chick still in agony inside a tray that has gone through the washing process using boiling water at high pressure; Injured chicks left in hatching trays for hours before being unloaded through a chute to a meat grinder or dumped directly into buckets filled with shells, yolks and dead chicks where those still alive are killed by drowning or suffocation.
In addition to these images, Animal Equality found the lack of an effective animal welfare policy and training program dedicated to operators to prevent the prolonged suffering of injured animals. The lack of adequate training for operators was documented on several occasions by the investigation: such as when some operators dropped numerous piles of trays containing thousands of eggs with live chicks to the ground.
The fall of the trays caused the death of most of the animals inside, however during the cleaning operations, the management said that what happened “was not a big problem” because obtaining replacement eggs would not have been a problem.
“Lack of care leads to the daily deaths of thousands of chicks who often suffer excruciatingly from mutilation, burns suffered during a brutal process of violence with little supervision, no care and little protection against them or who die drowned “, said Alice Trombetta, director of Animal Equality Italia.
“We ask the local prosecutor to file a complaint against this company for violations of the state criminal code that prohibits cruelty to animals.” According to the US Department of Agriculture, more than 81 million chicks die in hatcheries each year on their first day of life, “a number that betrays inhuman cruelty and neglect as well as incredible waste.”
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