Nearly two million chickens were killed at Delaware and Maryland farms due to a lack of processing plant workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc. is currently experiencing reduced employee attendance at its plants on the Delmarva Peninsula — a strip of land shared between Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — due to increased cases of COVID-19 throughout the community, additional testing, and workers practicing public health officials’ ‘stay home if you’re sick’ social distancing guidance, according to a statement the company released.
In a letter to growers sent on April 8, director of live operations for Allen Harim Foods Michelle Minton explained that the company would begin “depopulating” chickens two days later.
“When we started noticing the downward trend in attendance, we reduced the number of eggs set and chicks placed,” the letter read. “Unfortunately, reduced placements will not make an impact for another six weeks, and with the continued attendance decline and building bird inventory daily, we are forced to make a very difficult decision. Starting Friday, April 10, we will begin depopulating flocks in the field.”
This is just one example of how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting food processing facilities and factory farm workers across the country. Earlier this month, a Smithfield pork plant in Sioux Falls, S.D. closed indefinitely after single-handedly becoming the country’s biggest coronavirus hot spot, leaving workers suddenly unemployed and at a dramatically-increased risk of getting sick.
Mass animal killing shouldn’t happen, plain and simple. This sad case only highlights the need to end our cruel, disease-ridden industrial animal agriculture industry. If you haven’t yet, sign LFT’s petition urging the U.S. Congress to implement a nationwide ban on factory farms. It’s time to change the system.
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Stop killing animals.
Stop this horrible killing!
Cruelty needs to STOP!
Justice, compassion, laws, life, LOVE for the animals 🙏🏼 Please 🙏🏼
how sad…animal life means nothing to people! animals are so brutally used & abused by humans…greedy humans!
I dont understand where is the heart and humanity of these people. Or is this actually humanity?
So you murder chickens because of a lack of processing plant workers because of the virus? That’s makes no sense at all. Why was murder the first action? You bastards, I hope karma strike your business and it shuts down for good. Did you little boys and girls feel like men and women after murdering these animals? You are just as barbaric and uncivilized as some of your oriental counterparts and should return to your caves and bear-hide clothes for you don’t belong in a modern world. And that goes for all who exhibit Neanderthal-like behavior.
So you call people who kill animals for food ” processing plant workers” and people who kill animals not for food “uncivilized”?
More than 200 million animals are killed for food around the world every day. According to you this is civilized behavior. But 2 million chicken killed not for food, according to you those are the actions of neanderthals.
The blatant hypocrisy of meat eaters is very obvious here.
Please stop
Animal cruelty is never okay
There is another aspect to this that is ignored or unknown by most, and this is for those who don’t really care about animals and care more about themselves: There is an argument to be made, and which is made by traditional yogis, about energy;
when you eat the flesh of an animal that has been tortured all of its short life, you are assimilating a very toxic form of energy, which greatly effects your own. I am not referring to synthetic chemicals here, or to the unbalanced body chemistry of these animals that are so stressed and are suffering so much, but about pure energy. The energy of a suffering and distressed sentient being is toxic and shouldn’t be absorbed. This should be obvious…you are what you eat. unfortunately the obvious is missed because people do not question their habits and conditionings.
People with no consciousness what so ever in their souls do these type of heinous cruelty to such innocent helpless, voiceless animals are beyond anyone’s imagination. Where are the Moral responsibility? Why it is always the greed of the man for Money & profit comes before another living beings precious life?
These poor chickens are being cramping in small barren cages days weeks end. This type of massive animal cruelty is unacceptable & horrific & the industry owners must be punished for the violation of laws & committing the cruelty to animals.
IGNORANCE IS ‘NO EXCUSE’ FOR MAKING THESE ANIMALS TO SUFFER.
All factory farming needs to stop!!! The se workers do not give a damn about the animals and the owners are just looking to make a huge profit off of animal suffering. The pork industry is one of the worst offender’s.
Help the chickens, we have to do better for the animals!!!
I agree
Disturbing that people treat animals like trash!
Factory farms cannot be maintained in a healthy condition for either the workers or the creatures. We need farmers not factory varms. f
Factory farms cannot be maintained in a healthy condition for either the workers or the creatures. We need farmers not factory varms. f
Although our farming industry is far from perfect, I know you can’t make everyone become vegan. I’m not willing to buy meat that comes from other places where the industry is worse or who knows what we would be eating! Maybe you should try to make changes in the industry here instead of pushing to end it….just because we eat meat does mean we don’t care about the treatment animals go through from beginning to the end.
Act NOW ! please
It discussed me when ever I see this. No
Remorse what’s so ever
Please stop being cruel. To God’s animals.
Why cant all these animals go to zoos and sanctuaries to help feed them. Instead of jest killing to bury. Thats a food chain. Not raise cant kill but do to bury. Not a food chain.
Look how many people could be fed with those chickens.
Look how many chickens could be fed with people.
It’s a shame that innocent animals have to be killed for people to eat.I wish their was another way.I am very saddened about this travesty.The people that do this barbaric task will answer to the holy father someday.These are gods creations. Thankyou Michael Anzalone
It’s a shame that innocent animals have to be killed for people to eat.I wish their was another way.I am very saddened about this travesty.The people that do this barbaric task will answer to the holy father someday.These are gods creations. Thankyou Michael Anzalone
They need to just keep feeding them and let them out of the cages.
No need to kill them.
These companies have plenty of money
STOP THE KILLING NOW
These poor animals. Stop animal farming.
Please ban these cruel factory farms!!
Once again, millions of animals and birds have been unnecessarily, horrendously killed for the sake of money-grabbing, profiteering, giant companies and their share-holders. No thought is ever given to the innocent, voiceless animals and birds that suffer just so they can fill their fat-assed pockets……Shame on these companies, its about time the world woke up and realised WE are slowly, but surely, destroying our only home….
So true. One and only solution…veganism
Ikke spis kjøtt!
Honteux!
Un seul remède : devenir végétarien ou, pour ceux qui n’y arrivent pas,diminuer au maximum la consommation de viande. Tout le monde y gagnera : les animaux et les humains qui ressembleront un peu moins à de gros porcs!
“Nearly two million chickens were killed at poultry farms in Delaware and Maryland due to a lack of processing plant workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.”
Without the virus, these 2 million chickens would have been “processed” (meaning KILLED) and would have ended up in people’s stomachs, and no one would have noticed, it would have been business as usual, literally speaking.
So is the outrage because all this “meat” went to waste, because these chickens were killed for nothing? Is it somehow better to slaughter 24,657,534 chickens EVERY DAY for food?
Seriously? I am missing something?
The only way to stop all of this is to become vegetarian or vegan. There is no “humane” way to kill million of animals for meat every week. It is monstrous.
Awful.
It’s all about the almighty dollar. The lives of these innocent animals are no concern to the money-hungry head honchos. Poor babies–RIP.
Greed. Pure and simple.
So true. One and only solution…veganism
It’s all about the almighty dollar. The lives of these innocent animals are no concern to the money-hungry head honchos. Poor babies–RIP.
This is so disturbing and disgusting!!!
This is beyond cruel! It’s hard to believe something like this could be happening. This needs to stop!
This is beyond cruel! It’s hard to believe something like this could be happening. This needs to stop!
This cruel sadistic way of life should NEVER happen in a civilized world. I will never understand the mentality of of these perverts who can be so mean.
the need to end our cruel, disease-ridden industrial animal agriculture industry is NOW
we must make the switch to grain based foods and tell the world its time for them as well
especially the creeps in asia, Viet Nam Cambodia the philippines and everywhere else where ignorance and stupidity are the rule
Agree.
“…where ignorance and stupidity are the rules”
You mean like in the US? In the case of the US, you could add greed and corruption:
ignorance, stupidity, greed and corruption.