Mercy for Animals (MFA) has just released an investigation exposing the unthinkable but all-too-common practice of live chicks being thrown, dumped, and ground alive at a hatchery owned by Maple Lodge Farms, which produces chickens for meat. Many chicks here are resigned to doom before they’re even born.
Machines separate newly-hatched chicks from their eggs. The chicks are then dropped onto crowded conveyor belts, where injury and death are common due to careless handling by workers.
Chicks deemed too ill- or injured-looking are thrown into a macerator, a machine used specifically for turning solids into small pieces – in other words, these poor babies are ground up alive.
A whistleblower at the hatchery witnessed the senseless slaughtering of 25,000 chicks, thrown into the macerator in a “business as usual” fashion – simply because an order for their meat was canceled.
When chicks aren’t tossed nonchalantly into the macerator, workers kill them in equally appalling ways: sometimes by snapping their necks manually or ripping off their heads. In the factory farming industry, these gruesome practices are considered par for the course.
The ugly truth about industrialized farming is difficult to face; however, it takes little effort to do your part. How easy is it? By simply refraining from eating the products made from these innocent victims, you’re taking a stand against these cruel practices.
The Swedish have come up with a test to identify the sex of chickens in the embryonic stage….Hope they rush the patent to stop the carnage of male chicks….
this is so sick and evil
This is disgusting I hate humans
I wish more people were vegan. Even vegetarians eat eggs and contribute to the barbarity inflicted on those poor animals. We need to hurt those monsters the only way they understand, money.
please help the chickens
This needs to end.
SO WHERE IS THE PETITION FOR THIS????!!!!
OMG what the hell is wrong with human kind this is barbaric.
This is barbaric and must be stopped
WHERE is that Hell? It seems that in China- I watched cruel films. But it’s likely the pathology-desease is spreading to civilisation as wellIlona
This so terrible to do to put a baby chickens in a grinder alive people stop at nothing to abuse and kill any animal
This is the height of human pathology! People that are so cruel to animals lack something in their souls. This behavior needs to be stopped by those who have a conscience to step up and help the helpless.
THIS IS HORRIFIC!!
STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY!!
STOP THESE CRIMES = LEAVE THE POOR SWEET CHICKS ALONE =LET THEM LIVE !!!
La meilleure façon de lutter contre cette barbarie, c’est d’arrêter de consommer les œufs!
Sans oublier d’en parler autour de soi; les gens doivent connaitre la vérité sur ce type d’agriculture!
What is wrong with the world
The People Working With All These Cruel Industries Are Extremely Disgusting And Heartless But Also Really Needs Jesus?, I Feel Bad About These Animals Not Having Laws To Protect Them!! Especially In No Animal Welfare Law Countries!!I Get So Sick Knowing That Animals Deserve Justice And A Lot Of Them Have Died..May They Rest Peacefully ?? But Those In The Future Get The Justice They Deserve ??‼
Little chicks who don’t have a chance in life. This is monsterous by evil, stupid beings. I’m a vegetarian and I wish everyone was because I’ve never felt as healthy as I do now.
This is too horrible to think about. I detest these greedy, cruel companies and all who work for them. Humanity is at its lowest point.
I am grateful to the commenters here who feel like I do. Sometimes I feel so alone.
Thank you all for caring.
I wish we could eliminate all mean people.
Shame, shame for Animal holocaust. STOP IT NOW.
THIS IS SICK AND NEEDS TO STOP KARMA TO YOU ALL
I think we should do that with the corporate board members ,or their children, of these Fortune 500 companies (Tyson and Purdue, you know who you are).
Perhaps we also should humanely euthanize workers who lack compassion to such a degree…that they are capable of such barbaric acts..
Humanity as a whole is going to suffer until it actually makes itself extinct (we are rapidly headed in this direction) OR learns some compassion.
Getting rid of capitalism and socialism would be a good start.
I am tired of being a human resource and i am sure the animals in the factory farms are also tired of being commodities
An agricultural machine could handle the individuals killing innocent chicks in such a callous and inhumane manner.
They probably don’t know who their own daddy is.
Stop this ! This killing of the chicks is so evil. How can anyone live doing that kind of a Job. Please go vegan – the only answer. Love you chicks – we will fight for you.
sinful evil monsters. this has to end!
Yes those employees should be terminated.
Rule number one
STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS
Everyone who buys products from these companies is participating in the killing of these chicks.
Granted these EXPLOITERS get huge HANDOUTS and subsidies from the federal and state governments…but we CAN fight back by refusing to buy their products.
as an example MANY MANY dairies are being forced to shut down because people are not buying dairy products. One of the o0ldest
Dairies in the country has switched to NUT MILKS because they can read the writing on the wall.
This company ( Maple Lodge Farms ,Mississauga, Ontario Canada ) has 58 charges against them right now for animal abuse ( freezing them to death in transport 1500 chicks, slamming them into metal shackled , shocking them with electricity and cutting their throats while their still conscious and able to feel pain.) If your still going to buy chicken, please don’t buy it from them.
The company deserves a national boycott by the United States and all Canadian commercial vehicles should be banned form entering the United States.
Oh come on really? This is what the human race has come to? What kind of idiotic, nuts can actually do a job like that? Who do these people go home to at the end of the day and pretend they are decent human beings. How can they live with themselves and how can their families stand what they do. Of all the horror in this world, this is way up there at the top. Don’t the governments even care enough about what the public think about the horrific practices of these farming industries and how inhumane they are. When will these people realize that you don’t have to be cruel to these animals. I definitely wouldn’t want know and to be a part of anyone’s life that could be be so cruel and heartless towards an animal (any animal). Until the government and the laws get together to stop this nonsense, these animals will continue to suffer, unnecessarily and needlessly through humans hands. The people who can carry out this kind of work, I really, truly wonder about. You have to be heartless and unemotional to do something so cruel to an innocent animal, especially babies. They should really feel proud of themselves for being in the line of work that they are. I would have liked for the article to have listed the name of the products that this farm produces. My heart breaks for each and every animal that is abused by a human being. I am at the point now that I actually wish that no more animals are born in this world for humans to get their hands on.
This is so hard tó hear a no good thing to be doing. There is no excuse for something like this.I can only hope people will stop eating this meat it should make you sick just to think about it. I’ve already signed petitions to try and stop these kind of things from going on, so I really hope very soon it will end and never happen again.
I have stopped eating meat because of these practices.
Enough on brutally torturing and killing these innocent chicks. What is wrong with you guys?? Seriously.
This is sickening! How much lower can mankind go…..so ironic that sometimes man is NOT so kind!
Can’t watch or even think about it other than to sign a petition – is thee one? I will sign it.
too tragic and disgusting to deal with – do I ever despise these ‘agriculture industry’ excuses to torture.
I couldn’t watch the video. Just reading this turns my stomach. How can anyone be so heartless and do this something so very young just born. Didn’t have a chance enjoy life ??
That is so cruel and inhumane and sickening. They are just babies. That pissed me off big time when I saw that video. I can’t believe that people can be so cruel and inhumane towards tiny chicks like that. We must definitely put a stop to it at once and boycott Maple Lodge Farms until they realise what they are doing is cruel and inhumane. Yours sincerely
Miss Tiana May
They probably don’t place any value on human life from conception to birth.
Maldita industria ínsensible,respetemos a los animales por lo que son (seres vivos inocentes y ajenos a nuestra codicia)Y no sólo por lo que podamos obtener de ellos.
I would like to know how can this company just act like oh well it’s normal to kill baby chick’s is something going to be done like,a petition or something let me know if someone comes up with a way to handle this thank u
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