Tyson Foods Infiltrated By Animal Rights Group, Finds Heinous Treatment of Animals to be Rampant

This is the 4th time this year that one of Tyson’s poultry facilities have been infiltrated. Although this isn’t market moving news now, should the public continue to become exposed to the horrors of the corporate meat industry, it may begin to weigh on the shares of TSN, SAFM and PPC.

There’s a video floating around, which I have no interest in viewing or sharing with my audience, that shows images of deformed, sick, birds, in rancid conditions, fat and without the ability to walk properly–due to being bred so expeditiously.

“I think the industry is starting to learn that it’s going to cost more to continue to abuse animals as consumers learn about these cruel practices, and act accordingly in what they choose to purchase at stores and restaurants as well as in pushing elected representatives to increase the legal protections for animals,” Matt Rice, the director of investigations for Mercy, told USA TODAY.

The last video showed disheveled poultry workers wearing fucking diapers on the line, because they’re not permitted to go the bathroom. They’ve got work to do. Ain’t got no time for bathroom breaks.

Another video shows birds covered in shit, enveloped by insects, with a front end loader dumping hundreds of dead birds into a dumpster.

In October, Tyson fired at least two employees who worked at its Carthage, Miss. processing facility after Mercy released secretly-recorded video that showed the company’s slaughterhouse workers punching, throwing and pulling the heads off live broiler chickens.

Two contract farmers in Tennessee pleaded guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty after Mercy published video in August that showed the operators clubbing small and sickly chickens to death. The farm produced chicken for Tyson that was sold to McDonald’s. Tyson’s cut ties with the farmers as McDonald’s decried the activity in the video as unacceptable.

The group also managed to film undercover video in July of a Delaware facility, which they say supports their view that the company’s breeding practices lead to it contract farmers growing birds that live brief, torturous lives.

Enjoy your McNuggets.