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Video Shows Unwanted Male Chicks Ground Up Alive
Animals  (tags: video, undercover investigation, hatchery, unwanted squashed alive, cruelty chickens )

Simone
- 117 days ago - torontosun.com
An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based
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Blue Diva M. (0)
Tuesday September 1, 2009, 9:24 am
This is an act of unspeakable horror. How can anyone do this kind of work (?) and actually call themselves human? I can't find words to address such an evil act.
 

Simone D. (935)
Tuesday September 1, 2009, 9:30 am
I dont know Blue Diva, I will never understand how people can be cruel.
 

Venessa K. (10)
Wednesday September 2, 2009, 7:12 pm
I hope the people who did this meet a similar fate.
 

Candy LeBlanc (342)
Tuesday September 8, 2009, 3:05 am
This has been going on for years, & the chicks that are discarded end up mixed in with the food that you buy to feed your chickens.
 
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