After Undercover Video Exposed Cruelty, Chicken 'Farm' Closes
A Meat and Dairy Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves. As we continue to disregard the value of the lives of the billions of animals we eat, we also are destroying our air, land and water.

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Mercy for Animals (MFA)
November 2015

Clearly, this isn’t about the failure of a single factory farm or slaughterhouse to meet industry standards; it’s a matter of industry standards allowing for blatant animal abuse.

After they were caught on video beating animals to death with spiked clubs, former McDonald’s chicken suppliers Thomas and Susan Blassingame lost their longtime contract with Tyson Foods, pled guilty to criminal cruelty to animals, and quit the chicken factory farming business for good.

The Blassingames were fined $25 each—a paltry slap on the wrist for such horrific animal abuse—and placed on a year of unsupervised probation.

Watch the video that led to the shutdown of this McDonald’s chicken supplier.

But this is just one of thousands of factory farms that help grow the whopping 2 billion chickens Tyson slaughters each year in the United States. Multiple undercover investigations at Tyson Foods have uncovered a pattern of egregious cruelty and neglect nearly identical to that exposed at this McDonald’s McNugget supplier.

Most recently, MFA filed affidavits to initiate criminal animal cruelty charges against Tyson and six of its slaughterhouse workers after a hidden camera captured them violently punching, throwing, and maliciously torturing animals for fun.

Clearly, this isn’t about the failure of a single factory farm or slaughterhouse to meet industry standards; it’s a matter of industry standards allowing for blatant animal abuse.

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