Posted on 06/17/2015 6:28:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Poultry producer Foster Farms suspended five employees Wednesday after an animal-rights group released undercover video showing live birds being slammed upside-down into shackles, punched and plucked.
The suspended employees were either directly involved in the abuse or failed to report it to management, the California-based company said in a statement released through a public relations firm.
The behavior of the individuals in this video is inappropriate and counter to our stringent animal welfare standards, procedures and policies, the statement said.
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What our people did was out of the necessity born of living close to the land.
What these people did was the marker of a crude and barbaric culture that gets enjoyment from the suffering of others.
Wait: we ARE talking about Mexicans here, aren't we?
The adults back then would not have tolerated the liberal attitudes that prevail in today’s society.
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