Posted on 08/29/2015 12:53:50 PM PDT by bob_denard
LOS ANGELES - McDonald's Corp and Tyson Foods both severed ties on Thursday with a Tennessee farm where workers were seen stabbing, clubbing and stomping on chickens in an undercover video shot by animal rights activists. The videotape, which was unveiled by Mercy For Animals at a news conference in Los Angeles, depicts gruesome animal cruelty toward the birds at what the group said was T&S Farm in Dukedom, Tennessee, which was under contract to Tyson Foods. Tyson supplies chicken to McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food chain, for its McNuggets. Representatives for T&S Farm could not be reached for comment. "Animal well-being is a priority at our company and we will not tolerate the unacceptable animal treatment shown in this video," Tyson spokesman Worth Sparkman said.
I wonder how many of the farm employees could produce a green card if asked...
The taste and quality of the food is my consideration.
I also prefer mine dead, no bones or feathers and cooked. Something animal rights “folk” apparently disagree with.
It must be quite a effort to ‘stab, club and stomp’ millions of chickens a month. (/s)
Maybe the administration can mandate that all chickens be free range. Wouldn’t that be a sight to see! (it would certainly employ a lot of illegals, running through the fields yelling... here chicken, here chicken)
A quick response. The US government should have defunded Planned Parenthood as quickly.
Weird how many other BIG bidnesses stood behind the PP butchers after watching PP’s cruelty to humans videos. I guess the jackasses infesting this country care more about chickens (The new national symbol of Obonzo’s “fundamentally transformed” Amerika) than they do about baby humans.
I am concerned about how animals are raised and slaughtered.
For centuries people have respected animals, while at the same time eating them for food. Hunters actually hunted, primarily for food, but sometimes sport..yet they did this without “animal cruelty” that was needless. Civilized society expects certain basic norms and values, while at the same time realizing that animals are often mainly raised, hunted or slaughtered for food.
It is also well known that animal abuse has a close corollary to human abuse. ( which is why there are laws on the books for animal abuse).
For those who are so “tough”, that they make clever comments to show how “manly” they are, just remember that animals that have been terrorized prior to being slaughtered also have excess hormones released into their bodies that you will ingest and that are not healthy for you.
There is a reason that Jews had Kosher rules for slaughter and Indians also respected the lower food chain that gave them sustanance. These people are hardly Bleeding Heart PETA Libs. Their children were taught where food comes from, unlike today’s kids who have no connection to natural aspects of life.
A culture that tolerates this is well on the sliding path to tolerating baby killing and butchering while laughing and drinking their wine. Values for the sanctity of life are part of the general respect and compassion values that a culture has.
Americans have been so brainwashed about abortion, and the sanctity of life that they no longer want to see “reality”.
Babies are born in hospitals, not homes now. And very few Americans have grown up on a farm to see the cycle of life in reality.
the above is an explanation, albeit certainly not an excuse.
You got that right!
Those are important considerations. In my view, it’s also important to consider that we are meant to be stewards f the earth. Torturing animals ought to be abhorrent to all of us, although, looking at the way we slaughter intra-uterine human beings, perhaps it’s not reasonable to be shocked/disgusted at how animals are slaughtered here in our country.
This video prompted MCD and TF to cut ties with the farm, as well they should.
Too bad the videos showing Planned Parenthood committing far worse atrocities doesn’t seem to bother government and corporations enough to cut funding and/or completely sever ties with PP.
Just pointing that out.
Taste and quality are important to me too,but there’s no need to mistreat the animals when they’re alive.There’s something wrong with people who inflict pain just because they have the ability to do so.
Was the video in question staged, orchestrated, creatively spliced, or otherwise phonied up by Mercy for Animals? They’ve been known to do that to promote their vegan agenda.
I have taken around 30 deer relatively painlessly since I started hunting in the 70s.. I understand the effect adrenaline has on meat. Of course if someone else spooked them and they wind up in my sights soon afterwards, they will have not been calm and relaxed when I shoot them. These taste pretty good too. I have butchered every one of them myself. My 3 boys have taken a total of around 10 deer total. I taught them how to butcher them. We have around half a deer left in the freezer. November I hope to harvest more. I do eat store bought meat too. I don’t go out of my way to buy free range. Actually I’m more concerned about hormones.
Tyson, for one, slaughters chickens in a dedicated processing facility. Chickens are brought in by the truckload, and loaded onto a conveyor system. They are hung by their feet, and as they move through the killing floor, are killed by a worker using a captive bolt gun to the back of their head. It’s understandable that Tyson wouldn’t want to be associated with a place that out of control.
I agree about mistreating. But I do eat battery raised animals and hope they are not treated all that badly. I harvest my own when I can. (See 15)
If we let the hippies tells us when we are not being inhumane it will be tofu for you and me.
My brother was working as an outside contractor (calibrating some piece of equipment.)at a factory that made chicken pot pies. Trucks with live chickens in open cages pulled in one end and freezer trucks with pot pies pulled out the other end. Hopefully the fowls pain was short (like their lives). But we are the dominant species....Eat Up!
I harvest meat myself and as humanely as possible (see 15)
Hear hear!
I agree about not letting hippies set the standards.Any decent farmer doesn’t mistreat his animals,but these farms where the work is done by illegals are another thing entirely.
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