Non-profit animal rights organization Mercy For Animals has released a shocking video detailing the horrifying processes used in high-speed poultry slaughterhouses. Innocent animals are subjected to agonizing torture and workers are put in danger due to the pace at which they’re required to work.
An undercover investigator captured the sobering hidden-camera footage at a Maryland poultry factory, where fully-conscious birds are shackled and hung upside-down, immersed in electrified water, and slit across the throat. At one point during the investigation, a facility-wide power outage forced helpless birds to spend over an hour dangling from their feet as they waited to die.
Under recently revised USDA standards, slaughter lines can move at hazardous pace, killing up to 175 chickens per minute. This forces employees to work at an unreasonable rate, jeopardizing their safety and increasing their risk of injury.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has drawn much-needed attention to the inevitable hazards of slaughterhouse and factory farm environments, where workers are required to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and frequently come into contact with live animals, giving dangerous zoonotic viruses potential opportunities to “make the jump” to human hosts.
This investigation makes it clear: high-speed slaughter has to go.
As much as I would like to keep the email post friendly I don’t think there’s anything friendly you can say about this. So I’m just going to keep my mouth shut and let them know what assholes they are
I want the humans responsible for murdering those animals and using them as punching bags to be severely punished and locked up
I have given up eating anything that had a heart, a mother, blood through its veins…OMG. All these poor creatures.
Que Dieu vous maudisse !!!!
To kill an animal for food is one thing like a cow, pig, chicken but to do this in a manner of torture is dreadfully wrong God put them here for human consumption not for HUMANE HUMAN CONSUMPTION OR TO TORTURE THAT IS DEAD WRONG and dogs and cats are PETS this is the farmers way of life God will punish those who elect to do this
No, the Creator didn’t “put” cows, pigs and chicken “here” for human consumption, Please spare us your 2000 years old religious dogma. But you are correct in your stance against torture.
This needs to STOP!
We need to internationally turn these animal murdering human scumbags into fertiliser !An eye for an eye!
we demand criminal charges
This is HORRIFIC to watch. Even more for the chickens!
I care about about the animals being tortured not the humans doing the torturing. They can find another career.
what will the vicious sadistic meat people think of next..
there is no end to the darkness of their ways
when will humans realize the earth cannot support a meat centered diet
People are becoming increasingly desensitized to the suffering and killing of animals, as evidenced by the number of cooking shows that show the actual killing and dismemberment of live animals. I have great fear for the animals existing in the, not-to-distant future. As much as the very thought it hurts me immensely, I’ve come to believe that all animals will be better off if they cease to exist, sense the vast majority of people are willing to tolerate any abuses or torturing of animals as long as people get to eat meat, or benefit from the experiments done on animals.
This is outrageous
People STOP KILLING THESE INNOCENT ANIMALS
I hate what is happening with innocent animals…the way they are tortured before being killed, the fear they must go thru….I don’t know how anyone could do their jobs….sad…it hasn’t always been this way.
I hate what is happening with innocent animals…the way they are tortured before being killed, the fear they must go thru….I don’t know how anyone could do their jobs….sad…it hasn’t always been this way.
No doubt these horrific abuses were done by MEN.
There is something terribly wrong with this species.
Until this “problem” is resolved, the huMAN will NEVER evolve far from the cave.
No animal should be made to suffer. Anyone who maimes, starves or neglects an animal, reptile or bees in hives should be prosecuted
PLEASE, PEOPLE…GO VEGAN!
I,m so very very disappointed and shocked at hearing what. Has happened to the pregnant elephant, plus what is going on at the speed killing,of birds and more. I can’t even fathom , that this our AMERICA , brutalizing the animals and the wild life….We all need to talk and pray to Jesus, right now for much help , and changing ways that are hurting and brutalizing God’s ‘creatures.✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. And when it comes to this we sure are not great
These issues do need to be changed . The chickens should be killed before hanging to have their heads cut off
That video is pretty inhuman
These issues do need to be changed . The chickens should be killed before hanging to have their heads cut off
That video is pretty inhuman
I don’t give a hoot about the employees. Anyone who works in a house of horrors like that deserves what they get. But I am immensely angry, and sad for the innocent animals who die every day for people to eat.
Meat should be on high tax like tobacco, alcohol and candies to stop it’s use.
Much thought needs to go into changing the methods in use and careful consideration that these animals are of no harm to humans, neither are they commodities.
Animal cruelty laws need to toughen up. Why should animals suffer?. Its barbaric. and wrong.
Death penalty only thing to stop these horrific crimes towards the innocent. NO PRISON…. WE TAXPAYERS NOT PAYING FOR THEIR UPKEEP THERE. STOP ABUSING US TAXPAYERS TO CARE FOR THESE CRIMINALS IN PRISONS. GET TID OF THEM. LIONS DENS BEST THINGS TO BE REIMPLEMENTED FROM BIBLE TIMES!!!!!
A person needs to be an ex-con and/or mentally ill to partake in this sadistic job, and to invent the machinery used. SICK!
Please help these poor animals, Please help please stop these cruel sick demented assholes from doing the sick sadistic demented things they do to these poor innocent animals,PLEASE STOP THESE SICK ASSHOLES, PLEASE HELP PLEASE STOP THIS CRUEL SICK TORTURE, PLEASE HELP THE POOR INNOCENT ANIMALS PLEASE
Stop this barbaric torture now!
Horrific and must be stopped.
Horrific.
This is cruel and must be stopped!
Inadmissible
This is cruel and must be stopped!
Horrifying to watch video but for me it’s like preaching to the choir because I am vegan. All meat lovers should watch this and if you still eat chicken after viewing this video, then you don’t have a soul.
Animal abusers have to face consequences, so others stop.
Be more compassionate to animals.
Animal abusers have to face consequences, so others stop.
This dangerous practice must be properly regulated and controlled. It must be made safe by law or stopped altogether.
WTF JUST STOP YOU FCKN MORONS
All meat eaters should be forced to watch videos such as this one and others…to become fully conscious of what their choice implies rather than hide in cowardly denial.
Agree. Be forced is the key word.
Yes thank you Raphael I agree with you 100%
This must stop, we do not need meat anyway. The production of it is killing the planet, and is harmful to our health with all the antibiotics and drugs pumped into the poor animals day after day to compensate for the filthy conditions they live in.
Because I have seen so much animal torture in my time, I refuse to watch this video, its terrible enough to read the article. I will still sign all petitions there is, but I have lost too much sleep over man’s inhumanity. And I want to keep what’s left of my sanity and try to heal my broken heart.
Helene, I feel the same, neither I will watch the video, I feel totally helpless having no means to stop all the cruelty that human beings are capable to do to the poor innocent animals. i would desperately like to help them, but how? For my part I won´t eat them