“Can’t Let Nobody See You Doing That”: Tyson Foods Caught on Camera Throwing, Punching, and Kicking Chickens, Then Running Them over with Forklifts

Editor’s Note: If the majority of Americans actually knew where their food came from and had to witness how it was treated in CAFO lots and factory farms, this kind of thing would have to stop. It’s the disconnect, the out-of-sight/out-of-mind that allows this nastiness to continue…

Via WAPO:

An animal rights group has released graphic video that appears to show the mistreatment of chickens by Tyson Foods employees in Virginia, leading to at least two Animal Control investigations.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Compassion Over Killing, a Washington-based animal-advocacy organization, said the video was taken by an undercover investigator for the group in May and June at four facilities where Tyson employees process chickens. The video depicts Tyson employees throwing, punching and kicking chickens as well as sticking plastic rods through their beaks in a process known as “boning.”

Workers also wrung birds’ necks, ran over them with forklifts and left injured birds in “dead piles,” as the video’s narrator put it, to die. One worker, discussing standing on a chicken’s head and letting it suffocate, mentioned that the behavior would look bad if caught on tape.

“You can’t let nobody see you do that,” the man said, describing the act as “inhumane.” “A stranger . . . you don’t know if he’s working for the Animal Rights.”

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