by Ari Solomon - Dec 6, 2014 When Perdue contract chicken farmer Craig Watts got wind of a promotional video in which Perdue claimed all of its chickens were “humanely raised,” hed had enough. Watts knew from his own experience raising chickens for the company that Perdue’s birds were suffering. So, he called the animal welfare group Compassion in World Farming to document on video the cruel farming practices that Perdue requires of its farmers. For example, birds are not allowed outside, so they never breathe fresh air or see sunlight, birds live their entire lives walking on feces; leg deformities from unnatural growth rates are also common. The video caught the attention of Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times who had this to say about it: Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness. I don’t know where to draw the lines. But when chickens have huge open bedsores on their undersides, I wonder if that isn’t less animal husbandry than animal abuse. Take a moment and watch the short video from Watts’s farm:
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:07:48 +0000
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