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McDonalds Does Damage Control After Advocacy Group Shock Video Exposes ‘Disturbing and Completely Unacceptable’ Animal Treatment

McDonald’s Public Relations team has shifted into high gear, dropping its Minnesota-based egg supplier, after an animal rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer’s farms in three states.

The video produced by Mercy for Animals, a vegan-advocating activist group, shows what they call animal cruelty at five Sparboe Farms facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado.

See the undercover video:

“The behavior on tape is disturbing and completely unacceptable. McDonald’s wants to assure our customers that we demand humane treatment of animals by our suppliers,” Bob Langert, McDonald’s vice president for sustainability, said in a statement.

And animal cruelty isn’t the only concern.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent Sparboe Farms a letter warning them that inspectors found Sparboe in “serious violation” of salmonella-preventing regulations.

The warning said eggs from those facilities “have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health.”

Gross.

The egg-supplier has since responded and issued a statement calling the video “shocking” and saying an internal investigation identified four employees “who were complicit in this disturbing activity” and were fired this month.

“I was deeply saddened to see the story because this isn’t who Sparboe Farms is,” owner and president Beth Sparboe Schnell said in a statement posted on a company website. “Acts depicted in the footage are totally unacceptable and completely at odds with our values as egg farmers. In fact, they are in direct violation of our animal care code of conduct, which all of our employees read, sign and follow each day.”

Sparboe spokesman Lyle Orwig said Friday the company has a “zero tolerance policy” for any animal abuse or cruelty. He said all employees are trained by a veterinarian and work with a crew leader who also has been trained.

Although the “most alarming actions on video” didn’t actually happen at the facility that supplies the fast food giant, McDonald’s still plans to suspend Sparboe as a supplier.

Mercy for Animals isn‘t satisfied with McDonald’s decision to stop accepting eggs from Sparboe, said Matt Rice, the group’s director of operations.

“These are company-wide, policy-level abuses,” Rice said. “There’s a culture of cruelty and neglect at McDonald and its suppliers.”

“McDonald’s is simply sidestepping the issue now. It‘s time McDonald’s requires all of its suppliers to un-cage hens and finally give these animals the basic freedom to spread their wings, to walk and engage in other natural behaviors,” he said, noting that McDonald’s has already switched to cage-free eggs in Europe.

This isn’t the first time that Mercy for Animal has conducted an undercover operation.

They have taken similar action in Ohio (which led The Ohio Department of Agriculture to urge farmers to press charges against them for burglary and trespassing), Iowa and Texas. Apparently, they don’t act exactly within the law.

In fact, their activism has been so prolific that several states have introduced pieces of legislation seeking to outlaw their tactics.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

(h/t Business Insider)

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:57am

    It might be significant to remember that the people who made this video would NOT be satisfied with free-range chickens. They would then advocate the cessation of the killing of these animals for their meat. Or they would declare an egg to be a live animal. (They did use diseased eggs in their video) They see chickens as exactly the same as human beings, and would cut off the water supply to a bunch of California Farmers to save a few minnows in a canal somewhere.

    I also find it insane that they use video of bad eggs as if this were a horror, but have no problem supporting (human) abortion. These people are evil.

    Beware the liberal – he is everywhere.

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    • toomuchgovt
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:25am

      Amazing chickens and eggs have more rights than unborn children in our country.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:06am

      You are right. These people are truley EVIL.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:22am

      i don’t understand the problem with free-range chickens and eggs. THAT is truly disgusting. would you want to eat food from that chicken factory?

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    • KingArthurUp
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:45am

      Would like to give you all the full extent of my views, but I have to had to Mc Diks… I have a hankering for an egg mcmuffin!!!

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    • TheCalvinistPastor
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:03pm

      @toomuchgovt
      YOU ARE SO CORRECT! amazing how people will see this and be gasped, yet when children are sucked through vaccuum tubes, blended up, and thrown in the dumpster behind planned parenthood, they will just turn a blind eye to it. Amazing indeed

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    • DAGNY
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:50pm

      I came to that same conclusion. This IS NOT about treating animals better while they await the chopping block to become our food. This is a just another backdoor “nudge” to force us all to live the kind of life THEY deem acceptable.

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    • SerikFox
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Abortion is the most evil thing in our society.

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    • Svt4Him
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:35pm

      One has nothing to do with the other. This is horrible how they people are treating these animals, and I’m not human rights kind of person. McDonalds does have a responsibility to ensure ethical treatment as they are targetted to children. When children see this video it simply reaffirms the mistaken belief that capitalism exists without consequences, which is simply not true (as evidenced by the fact that McDonalds dropped them).

      As for the chicken farm, they say that’s not how it is to be done, yet they have a beak-burning machine on site why again?

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    • someonewhocares
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:51pm

      That was a little extreme.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • NoRoomForSocialismHere
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:58pm

      When it comes to PROFIT morals and the constitution are out da door. There much worse conditions in other mass animal raising farms. We should have our own couple of acres and grow and raise what we need to eat like when I was growing up.
      Profiteers will always shove up your nose

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:30pm

      @Svt4Him — The beaks are burned off to prevent the chickens from pecking at each other and causing injuries in tight conditions.

      Raising animals for food is not a particularly pleasant activity even if you follow all the ethical guidelines. I am somewhat surprised they have all the chicks dying in plastic bags, though. Usually, they have a high speed meat grinder standing by to eliminate the unwanted males and injured/diseased females. That bit about that plant manager breaking the chick’s neck, that’s as humane a way as any, I suppose.

      No matter how nice you are to the chickens, you are going to kill and butcher them. If it bothers you, feel free to stop eating meat. Meat is murder….tasty, tasty murder…and I’m going to keep right on eating it. These animals were only born and raised for this purpose and if we let them go free from the farms, many would die because they‘ve been bred for traits that aren’t conducive to survival in the wild that increase the amount of meat produced and we might need to organize hunts to keep from being overrun with a population boom among the survivors.

      To the chickens: I’m sorry that you were bred to suffer and die, but fulfill your purpose and get in mah belly!

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    • korbin
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:44pm

      First, I personally gross out on eggs. If I don‘t cook them myself I can’t do it. I always have to remove the blood clot, spermaloid and anything extra found. For those discussed by these types of things, think about this. WE are becoming Mexico!! all of you that love to east at the local taco shop or carneceria markets. Where to you think all the Ecoli starts???? in the fields from mexican workers who shi t and don’t wash their hands. Thats the truth period. They won‘t say it cus we are so PC but for all who don’t know Mexico is a third world country and when they migrate here they act exactly like that do at home. look in the trash cans in the bathrooms of these taco shops. Toilet paper w crap on it, they don’t realize the toilet flushes w water, thats how its done in mexico. 99.999% don’t wash their hands and this e coli spreads. get grossed out on natural eggs all you want while eating your e coli/ hepatitis burrito.

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    • korbin
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:47pm

      And before you start in I can’t spell, thank you.

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    • hillarie
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:05pm

      These people are not evil and the issues they raise are legitimate and they have to matter to a society that considers itself civilized. The fact is, factory farming is a relatively recent development and prior to it the human race was supplied with meat from local FARMS, not factories for thousands of years. The new ‘farming’ methods represent a new step in real evil where the animals are treated like things, not sentient beings and their natural tendencies are completely ignored. This has to be addressed. And it has to be stopped. Because as long as it goes on, it’s a blight on our conscience.

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    • Svt4Him
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:18pm

      @InversionTheory

      Love meat, and will continue to eat it. Raising an animal to eat it doesn’t mean you need to go beat it or abuse it, and that is happening here. Break it’s neck, no problem. Swing it around by it’s legs, that’s a problem. I’m not a huge animal rights person (I think I said human above) and think most organizations that are are very misguided, but that still doesn’t mean people should act like animals. Chickens here, which are just as tasty, are not treated like these, and it’s not terribly hard like you say. Is it bloody? Sure is, but it can be done in a more humane way. Shoot air into a cows head to scramble it’s brains before slaughter, no problem, it can’t feel anything. Brand it on the head? Can’t see any reason for it (the practice was changed in the 90′s) Sorry, still can see any justification for abuse even though I do know ‘where my meat comes from’.

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    • seldomscene
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:22pm

      I hope they don’t do a sausage video!

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    • White Gun Fodder
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:16pm

      The US News Network Ministry of Propaganda Prints More Lies About Fast Food.

      Tell us how the Kobie beef that the Obama Keneyan born first family eats weekly come from? Tell us how Kobie beef is raised. This news makes me hungry for a Big Mac. Lets go…

      Only the TEA can save us now.

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    • klevalt
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:19pm

      I agree to all points but one… they have no qualms about aborting a human fetus, while they spare the poultry fetus.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Some folks say libs are evil….I would say HORRIBLY misguided and indoctrinated for most, if not all, of their lives.
      But they do commit evil acts in the name of whatever cause they have chosen to champion.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Free range chickens, chickens in a pen, cows, pigs, whatever.

      For the 95,195,193,175,685,416,321,687th time… I DON‘T CARE HOW MY FOOD IS TREATED BEFORE IT’S IN MY MOUTH!

      It all ends up dead and on a plate, no matter how it was treated its entire life.

      That’s not a pig, it’s breakfast! That’s not a chicken, it’s lunch. That’s not a cow. It’s dinner (and a baseball mit).

      Capice?

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    • mamatango
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:00pm

      @Secessionista

      This happens on all factory farms, this just happens to be a factory chicken farm. It also has virtually NOTHING to do with McDonalds! THIS IS WHAT WE ALL BUY AT OUR FAVORITE GROCERY STORE! And the story for our beef and pork is no different!!! INHUMANE, and we keep buying it!

      Want to see the difference? Everyone should watch this video. It’s enlightening. This is how God intended for us to live.

      “White Oak Pastures presents Pastured Raised Chicken”
      http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/video/#

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    • jgmillionaire
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:17pm

      It is childish to imply we should ignore animal rights because society also ignores the rights of unborn. That is completely apples to oranges; and you all go about it as if you didn’t read the headline before clicking on the story. If you wanted to read/discuss abortion laws go find those stories because this happens to be about animal cruelty. It is interesting that people consider themselves wholesome or moral but have no problem disregarding the sacrifice these animals are making to supply you with unnecessary supplements. You don’t need McDonalds, you simply like it and therefore these animals are being killed to satisfy you. You don’t have to join PETA for crying out loud, just show a little class and hold the businesses that you give your money to, to higher standards.You’d have to be heartless to see this and say you see no abuse. Give me one good reason farmers shouldn’t give animals space to roam and fresh air.

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    • Thelastpatriot65
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:48pm

      How is it apples to oranges when stating a fact that such as chickens (raised to be our food) have more rights than the unborn? Is this a sad video? Yes… Until my stomach growled.

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:54pm

      What is the true definition of free-range chicken?

      The United States Department of Agriculture offers this definition:

      FREE RANGE or FREE ROAMING: Producers must demonstrate to the Agency that the poultry has been allowed access to the outside.

      But “allowing access” doesn’t mean much. A small door in a barn with thousands of chickens technically gives chickens an opportunity to go outside, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll have access to grass (it may only be a concrete slab). For chickens to produce the most healthful and flavorful eggs and meat, they need to be able to eat a variety of green plants, seeds and bugs. Unfortunately, you can’t tell how the chickens live by reading the package in a store. I’d encourage you to find a local farmer who raises poultry on pasture.

      For more information on this subject, read Free Range vs. Pastured: Chickens and Eggs.

      Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/ask-our-experts/free-range-chickens.aspx#ixzz1eDLgUCws

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    • Natasha88
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:14am

      Pro-Abortion while Pro-Animal is indeed a moral hypocrisy. Please know that not all vegans are insane. As a vegan, I am pro-life, anti-terrorism, and pro-Israel. No sentient being should have its life preceded in priority to inanimate property. Free-range chickens are still murdered, and mercy for animals as far as I know is a vegan group, so yes they probably wouldn’t be satisfied. That said, I’d rather a murder victim be treated humanely before its death, wouldn’t you?

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:30pm

      And yet he is nowhere !

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    • mdefu2
      Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:00am

      They were showing that the eggs were covered with blood. Obviously the blood came from injured chickens.

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  • drago
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:57am

    If anyone paid close attention to who was doing the uncalled for cruellity, it was almost all, illegals,“this is what cheap labor looks like”…………

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    • Bunnie
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:12pm

      This is what no media / journalism looks like! A N Y O N E not disturbed by this really should take a moral inventory of themselves… Because you are part of the problem, not the solution!

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    • RossPoldark
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:03pm

      There was only 1 hispanic sounding male.

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  • Raptuready
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:48am

    Some of you people are letting your ideology get in the way of your morals. Animal cruelty is wrong…even if there is a political agenda behind stopping it! This coming from a conservative…

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:32am

      You are right but you may be suprised to find out just how powerful group think is among our peers. If Beck wast to come out and say that this was ok then immediately about 75% of the Blaze readers would follow along.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:30am

      You are soooooooo misinformed. These chicken factories are a result of GOVERNMENT regulations and the GOVERNMENT confiscation of land. Give us back the land and stop the dumbass regulations and this all will end. The GOVERNMENT sucks!

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:28pm

      I agree that as the top of the food chain, and as a species, we have a moral obligation to husband our animals responsible, I believe you need to look at why these places are what they are.
      1) They are largely operated by illegals who come from a culture where animal cruelty is not only accepted, but argued as a right and part of their heritage.
      2) Government regulations require these places to hire illegals in order to be able to function economically.
      3) Mother Government is coming after those of us who try to grow and raise our own foods with a vengeance. THIS is what they promote, because this is where the donations come from.
      4) Government regulations are so overbearing for these industries that it becomes a game of meeting the bare minimums to pass inspections, rather than doing what we know is right. Look at the FBI raids against the Amish for a great example. They refuse to drug their animals, and offer organic, well cared for animals and products, yet Mother Government comes down on them like the hammer of the gods.

      Get the government and the unions OUT of the businesses of America, and you will see far less of this mess.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:55pm

      So is sucking a child out of a woman having an abortion, yet you think animal cruelty is a greater grievance. No one here advocates cruelty to animals, but when you put an animal’s value over a human life, that is where we draw the line. In our book, humans trump animals. If you fail to give the same consideration to an unborn child, then your outrage over cruelty to animals is moot.

      If this farm is as bad as the video depicts then they should be shut down. If it was a few workers who were conducting the cruelty, then they should be arrested and jailed. The USDA must keep an eye on these farms, however like any government good intentions, this entity is overwhelmed with trying to police all farms, it is nearly impossible to catch these infractions.

      I would not put it past this group to plant dead animals or those bad eggs to support their agenda, yet I am not sure why the chick beaks are burnt off? What is this purpose? Does it reduce the peeping?

      Does this warrant further investigation, absolutely. Do we need to see if illegals are working on these farms and behind this cruelty, absolutely. Do we hold accountable the owners of the farms, absolutely.

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    • SerikFox
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:45pm

      Baddoggy you are sssuuuuuuccccchhhhhhhh a liar. I take care of animals – it’s my job. There is never an excuse for what they are doing. Never. I don‘t even know how the hell you can be such an idiot as to think that they can’t treat the animals kindly because of government regulations. How does that make sense? Let me tell you why it doesn’t. They literally threw the chicks – threw. Is that a government regulation? It‘s not one I’ve heard of. Those cages are way over packed, highly unsanitary, and extremely dirty. Is that a government regulation? You can’t blame other people for your inability to take care of animals humanely. What kind of person can see animals being tortured and say “it’s the governments fault”? What the hell is wrong with you?!?

      And no, I am not a vegan or vegetarian or any of that. I’m the closest thing to the opposite of a vegetarian that you can find.

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  • drago
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:46am

    “Insanitary conditions”? Thats, unsanitary. Come on Blaze, im no spelling cop, but these type of mistakes are getting old, and are a direct reflection, on your huffpo reject leader.Glenn, clean The Blaze up a little faster will ya?

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    • Voice_ofFreedom
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:11am

      http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insanitary
      Maybe you should look things up and do a little research before assuming you know more than the editors and writers of TheBlaze?

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    • TXBadOneToo
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Drago – your command of English language grammar sucks.

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    • MacMeanie
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:31pm

      “Unsanitary” or “Insanitary”, it doesn’t matter. It‘s like what’s the difference between color and colour. One is the common American style and the other is the common British style. Get over it.

      The bigger problem is where’s my McMuffin? Debeaked or not, caged or free range, these birds will live a brief life. They were bred to be grown to an egg laying age, the eggs collected for a certain time frame and then they are slaughtered and packaged for someone to purchase and make into a meal.

      Without animal growers the world would die off. Animals are not just to be seen and admired. They are for sustenance too.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:43am

    Animal cruelty is wrong – period. This is the problem with large corporate farms, the farmers loses touch with his trade and the condition of his farm and animals. The bottom line dollar becomes the only concern. I only eat meat and eggs from local farmers where I can go visit the farm and who use local processors. Thankfully my community has a very strong and growing farmers market. Even one of our regional grocery stores carries a small, but growing selection of local meat and eggs.

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    • Biff Marupis
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:56am

      I’ve been serving the food processing industry for over 20 years. This is includes everything from bakeries, candy manufacturers, dairy processors, beef, pork, poultry, seafood, shell egg, and egg breakers just to name a few. I’ve been to large egg processors where they have a standard egg farm and right next to it the “organic free roaming” egg processors. Funny thing is… you can have a huge yard for all those chickens and they’ll still all bunch up in one corner. As far as cruelty is concerned, I know it happens. You’re apt to have idiots in any operation. Usually the low level people. They don‘t do it out in the open though because they know they’ll be immediately terminated. It’s in the best interest for these companies to raise healthy animals. That’s not for any noble cause. It’s just more profitable to do so.

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  • ares338
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:42am

    I am not a vegan but animals should have a good quality life before they are processed. It always saddens me to see those 18 wheelers carrying chickens in cages they can’t even move around in. My wife and I are going to raise some chickens but we’ll probably name them LOL.

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    • PATRIOT
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:04pm

      if the chickens are allowed to move around too much during transport they will injure one another. chicken truck cattle truck it doesn’t matter free space = damaged livestock. as far as removing beaks that is so they genetically engineered fast growing but stone stupid chickens don’t peck one another to death. trust me de-horning cattle is much worse but still necessary. imaging 1200lbs of cow gored by 1 ft horn. not pretty.

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  • Danola
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:40am

    So, here is a video produced by an advocacy group with the intention of making McD’s look bad. They hate capitalism and they are willing to stage a video to advance their cause. Who was doing the cruelty in this video? Was it staged? Someone obviously was on the inside, pretending to be a worker, with the intent of harming this farm. How much was paid to the immigrant worker for video taping this for the leftist “animal rights” group?

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:32pm

      All very good points, however none of those points address the moral issue here. I am a carnivore, through and through, but that doesn’t mean the animals being raised to provide food need to be treated cruelly.

      Yes, it was all illegals working there from what it seemed, and yes the people making the video have an agenda I don’t agree with. Dismissing the whole thing because of those facts is like saying that someone being blackmailed has no rights to legal protection because they’ve done something worthy of being blackmailed over. It is wrong headed thinking no less than the wrong headed zealots who made this video.

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  • Jmoyle
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:39am

    I’m not an animal activist,but I think that it’s horrible that some one could bring themselves to do this to defenseless animals! Just seeming this video has ruined my sauterday morning! Even though the chickens were going to be processed for us to eat,the bby chickens werent and the people that are in this video are going straight to hell! In fact. Actually this video is worse than the commercial that comes on tv,with the arms of the angles song playing! Only an evil ungodly person is capable of this kind of creulity! And like I said they are going to hell!

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:31am

    Suddenly, I have a craving for an Egg mcMuffin!!

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  • celestialfire
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:31am

    There is more to this, probably a conservative being set up.

    http://www.startribune.com/business/96106824.html

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:18pm

      Celestialfire you are probably dead-on-target with your comment.
      When a-lot of new car lots were being closed down, someone took a survey and the results were (drum-roll please): districts that voted conservative had the largest number of car lots that were closed down while districts that voted democratic had very few (if any) new car lots closed, some even had an increase in new car lots opening up.

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:29am

    My version of PETA
    People
    Eating
    Tasty
    Animals

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  • ginger100
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:29am

    What is the difference between this place and a govt. funded abortion clinic? The people performing the cruelty are at the same level as the abortion doctor. And the chickens in this coop are living in the same conditions as OWS dirtbags.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:28am

    So how were these photos obtained and HOW do they know it wasn’t a plant of some kind? It’s not like these tree huggers have any REAL morals? They have been out to get McDonalds for YEARS now. I just do not BELEIVE everything I see or hear these days. Maybe they SET THIS UP? I don’t know, but I wish they would be as concerned about the baby HUMANS! They throw those body parts into the TRASH, too. Again. SELECTIVE outrage from liberal do-gooders.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:33am

      did you watch the story lastnight?
      it wasn’t just photos… watch the videos… i might make ya puke…

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    • pazzo242
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:22am

      So as long as a wrong is going on somewhere else we should just ignore the other wrongs in the world. That is pathetic!! I worked on a black angus ranch for a few years and we cared for the cattle in a humane way. Yes. they were eventually butchered but during their life span they were cared for and and produced wonderful meat. This video was not staged, as you would like to think–it was an expose.

      You also make judgements about the filmers that you can’t support.

      I am a meat eater and always will be but I don’t want to eat it at the expense of torture–there is zero need for that.

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  • jb.kibs
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:24am

    i own 6 chickens… this makes me sick…
    i would NEVER even dream of treating an animal like these sick fuhcks.

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  • PCKaz
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:04am

    Although the group that exposed this is a vegan activist group, and obviously has an agenda beyond just exposing this situation, that doesn’t change the fact that this is undeniable cruelty. There is a difference between running an egg farm, and torturing animals. The fact that some of you are acting as if this doesn’t matter only gives the far left ammo – you’re in essence proving them right. Kudos to McDonald’s for cutting this company off.

    Cruelty is cruelty. I have no problem with people wanting to eat and use animal products. There’s no reason the animals have to be tortured in order to get them. And let’s not forget that there is a distinct link between habitual abuse of animals and violence towards people.

    If the truth has no agenda, then let’s speak the truth – what these individuals were doing was reprehensible, on a number of levels – risk of disease, contamination, and unnecessary torture of animals. Bottom line is that it was wrong, and they should be prosecuted.

    Just because you want to enjoy an egg McMuffin (and I‘m not saying you shouldn’t be able to), it doesn’t mean that the animals producing the eggs need to live in horrible conditions, and be tortured for the amusement of twisted minds.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:14am

      I agree and I’m sure Ted Nugent would too. It is evil.

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    • MrMagoo
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:17am

      Great post,my sentiments exactly and I’m sure you speak for most of us here!

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:33am

      Great post! I agree completely.

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    • dutchy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:39am

      I agree too!

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    • randy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:35am

      Kudos! I totally agree with you.
      But I wish the progressives felt the same way about human life.
      Someone needs to do an abortion clinic video.

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    • GTH
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:01am

      Ted Nugent kills for sport….As do many, ant that SUX. How would you like it is someone raised you just to hunt down and kill?

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    • Goobergregory
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:41am

      My husband and I raise chickens. In the spring we grow the flock to 24 and then come inter we cull it down to 10 so that they will be comfortable and happy through the Michigan wintertime. We treat our girls very well, feed them the best food we can get. The eggs are second to none. All of our neighbors and friends will never buy store bought as long as we have our chickens. They need room to run around (we let ours free range as often as possible and when they are not out of the pen (pen is 100FT, by 25FT and grass, bushes etc for their enjoyment) they are safe and warm in a coop that is large enough for comfort and we even heat them in the winter. I abhor poor treatment of any animal… Sad that McD’s supports this, but I believe it is FAR more common than you would imagine. Store bought eggs would be another example. I purchased egg cartons on-line that were seconds (they had errors in the printing) so I have 500 egg cartons for making sure I sell clean eggs in new cartons (which I wash by hand)… guess what farm they were from??? SPARBOE FARM! OMG! LOL

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    • Joshua7
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:53am

      Yup, I agree too. Great post.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:31pm

      @ GTH
      Have you also read where Ted Nugent donates the meat harvested during a hunt? Back in April of this year Nugent went on a hog hunt and the harvest pigs were donated to “Hogs for a Cause”, an organization that donates the meat to needy families.

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  • sndrman
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:02am

    libs usually go after the “soft tagets”kinda like what the terriosts do. but seldom go after serious problems. partial birth abortions, and the such. how women are treated in middle east but the libs stay real quiet as welll as republicats.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:57am

    All of God’s creatures have a place here on earth…..right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.

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  • Living In NYC
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:41am

    Geez…quit picking on the 99.999999% of us and where we get our food…

    Check out how MooShell and Barry cook their lobster…from alive to boiling water..what a way to go…..poor little lobtster boiled to death with their claws rubberbanded!

    Because of these fools my Egg-McMuffin is going to cost five bucks..and you would rather scream a school children in NYC!

    Get a life..or move to some communist state and live like these chickens..Oh yeah..the far left loves to live in their own waste or leave it our the taxplayer’s property like sidewalks, trees and city vehicles for us to clean up!

    Sorry, I forgot these chickens live better than you!

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    • robert
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:10am

      The abuse and mistreatment of animals throughout the world is disgusting and appalling and this country, while a cut above the others, still is involved in unacceptable treatment.

      Like everything else about the corporate geeks their first and only real concern is satisfying their greed. If it makes them an extra buck, they’ll indulge in any mistreatment of animals necessary to get that dollar. They don‘t give a rat’s a^^ about whether or not a defenseless little creature suffers, so long as they can increase their bottom line.

      Whether it‘s putting fowl in cages so small they can’t move around and burn calories, while they physically stuff grain down their gullets to fatten them up, or these third world religions slit the throat of a cow, causing it to fall many times and stumble around the floor in its own blood until it bleeds to death to please their lunatic in the sky, it is all a reflecton of the pathological nature of people who are still on a stone-age level and in need of intense psychotherapy.

      I became a vegetarian after watching a number of the abysmal videos depicting animal abuse. I’m not going to support the low-lifes in the industry, including McDonalds.

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    • SerikFox
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:22pm

      First off the lobster dies the second it touches the water; the “screaming” has to do with pressure and their shell. Second, this is a serious issue. Factory farming is evil. What they’re doing is extremely cruel. You can raise them, you can eat them, but you don’t have to torture them. At least let them live a good life. They do feel ya know. They all have different personalities. They may be dumb creatures; but that’s no excuse for people to exercise such cruelty. If you intend to raise animals then you gotta care for them. Now, I’m not advocating a vegan or vegetarian agenda in any way. My job is taking care of animals (mostly cows) – I interact with several each and every day. When you work with them you start to see why treating them cruelly is wrong. If you have it in you to torture animals then something is wrong with you. No good person treats their animals that way. None. It doesn’t cost any more to raise them humanely. Remember this: when they’re all crammed in those cages they fight. When they all fight they kill each other. They spread disease faster. You lose 50x as many chickens. Add that up and see what’s cheaper. As I said, I have no problem eating them – in fact I am as close to the opposite of a vegetarian as you can find. But that doesn‘t mean you should hurt them because you can’t take 2 more seconds to treat them kindly.

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:35am

    Yawwnnn…..
    Uh hoh please. Am I supposed to cry for a couple of dead chickens…? How can we fry them if they are not dead first ?
    We are not exactly talking Schindler’s list here.

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    • Living In NYC
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:47am

      So true Neokong..human are expendable…babies (especial females in China) and those of different faith and social upbringing! Only the progressive elite should decide who should “live” and those who get to thrive!

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  • endgamer
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:26am

    Watch the movie FOOD INC!! you will find out some startling facts.. Who is the LARGEST beef buyer in the United States? Mc Donalds Chicken & Pork? Mc.Donalds. Eggs? You guessed it. Potatoes? Umm, yep Mickey D’s!
    Here’s what happens, because these big buyers buy the majority of the product, it is raised and or grown to their specs. That means everything is done that way! Schoolbooks are handled that way too! California usually buys the most books so other states buy to their specs to save money.
    I was in the floral industry for 35 years and the large supermarket chains will buy an entire crop or contract the farm exclusively. The supermarket chain buys more than our local distributor and at a much better price. The supermarket then sells a better product at florist cost to the customer. Who loses? You do! The supermarket will not hire skilled people to create you something beautiful like your local florist can. Secondly your supermarket handles flowers like produce.. Not a good thing.

    So is big business a bad thing? If the above is indicative of how it is handled, then yes. Small business may cost a little more but you are dealing with someone who usually has a family to feed like you. Buy local & save the country..

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  • paleoman
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:22am

    Don’t eat out much anyways, got to go fry some bacon & eggs now.

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    • Average_Joseph
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:48am

      This is nothing compared to what McDonald’s potato suppliers do. I have it from a very good authority that first these poor spuds are made to spend time in dirt; they live almost their whole lives in dirty mud. Then they are snatched from their living area, dunked and scrubbed in cold water. **CONTENT WARNING** They then have their eyes removed, have their skin peeled and then are sliced and/or diced. Finally, their life ends by either throwing them in hot oil or placing on a hot grill. If this isn’t enough, salt is placed on their freshly fried bodies. Horrific!!!

      The only comment from an unnamed McDonald’s employee was “Would you like coffee with your hash browns?”

      Our next undercover story will be on Starbucks’ treatment of Arabica coffee beans. Is Starbucks anti-Arab? Stay tuned.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:27am

      LOL @ Average Joseph…I spit my coffee on my screen…You owe me….

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  • The_Postal
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:16am

    This is horrible to them, but apparently genocide in Darfur is cool. Get your priorities straight wacko’s.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:09am

    I am not for caging chickens, pigs or cattle. The sad FACT is that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has made it where we cannot feed the planet becuse they have confiscated all the land for the wacko enviromentalists.

    Let’s take our land back and we can have free range chickens, grass fed beef. Lay the blame at the feet of the FEDS where it ALL belongs!!! They took the States land crushed the farmer’s rights and now this is what you will get.

    You can’t have it both ways!

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:18am

      Very well said. The government set the house on fire and now complains about the heat in the kitchen. Go figure.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:59am

      Yea, and if Agnda 21 takes hold, we’ll have even less land. I have Agenda 21 in it’s entirity printed out and bound in a comb binding. They want all people in “urban centers” and the land to go back to it’s natural state.

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    • PCKaz
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:08am

      Well said. Part of the problem, though, is that doing things ethically would require us to possibly get back to a time when you couldn’t always get a particular type of meat – and we’ve gotten spoiled. I’m all for getting back to real farming. I could never do it (I’d have 8,000 cows that stopped giving milk on the lawn ’cause I could never kill them or sell them for meat). However, I do have several friends that are farmers. It’s a business, and they do what they have to do, but they are not cruel to their animals.

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  • kaydeebeau
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:50am

    Why aren’t these people doing a cruelty to the human animal expose at the local Planned Parenthood facility? I bet these same loons are pro-death abortion supporters

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:05am

      Because they rate us below the food chain.

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    • Discord
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:06am

      Because there is no cruelty going on there.

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  • GTH
    Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:46am

    http://youtu.be/0b2k98YLSnk

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:33am

      You are an F’ing idiot. More animals are killed and more water is used to support a vegan diet. What the F do you think happens to deer, rabbits, squirrrels and other varmits that come to eat crops? You think the farmers just let them eat? Wise up stupid!

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    • GTH
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:38pm

      Did you even watch half the video or are you the type that opens his/her lips before opening your mind.

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