http://www.torturedbytyson.com/

I got that link in my email today as "Breaking news" ....is this something new? There was no date on the "breaking news". I can't remember where the other slaughterhouse was that was investigated recently....

Is Mike Tyson up to no good AGAIN?

Loser.

:no:

The Rev

Yeah, this is new and a different plant than the last one. The other may have been one of the Arkansas one's, not sure.

Here is the article along with contact info to take action

FOR Photos and video footage go tothe website that kitten listed:

You can help. Please ask Tyson to adopt CAK immediately:
John Tyson, Chair and CEO
Tyson Foods, Inc.
2210 W. Oaklawn Dr.
Springdale, AR 72762-6999
479-290-4000
479-290-4061 (fax)


"From December 2004 through February 2005, a PETA undercover investigator worked on the slaughter line of a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Heflin, Alabama. Using a hidden camera, he documented the treatment of the more than 100,000 chickens killed every day in the plant.

What the investigator saw was truly horrifying. Birds were frequently mutilated by throat-cutting machines that didn't work properly; one bird had her skin torn entirely off her chest. Workers were instructed to rip the heads off birds who had missed the throat-cutting machines, and our investigator was told not to stop the line for missed birds. Plant employees were seen throwing dying birds around just for fun.

PETA's investigator also witnessed numerous birds who were scalded alive in the feather-removal tank while they were still conscious and able to feel pain. Plant managers told him that it was acceptable for 40 animals per shift to be scalded alive, and no one was reprimanded when far more than 40 birds suffered this fate during any given shift.

PETA's investigator repeatedly expressed concern to plant supervisors about the treatment of the chickens, but his complaints were ignored. Watch the video and see for yourself the agony of these animals' last moments.

Animal-welfare experts agree that this sort of treatment is unacceptable. Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University wrote, "This is a total FAILURE on animal welfare," and Dr. Mohan Raj of the University of Bristol wrote that "due to the lack of appropriate legislation to protect the welfare of birds at slaughter people seem to get away with [these] cruel and unethical practices." Indeed, chickens are not afforded any protection under any federal animal welfare legislation. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act leaves chickens and turkeys out entirely. Read statements from these and other animal welfare experts.

As hard as it is to stomach, this sort of treatment is entirely too common in modern chicken slaughterhouses. Previous undercover investigations have turned up injured and dying birds left unattended during workers' lunch breaks and workers who ripped animals limb from limb, threw live chickens against walls, and stomped up and down on them on the ground.

Sadly, all these abuses were entirely preventable. In 2003, PETA first contacted Tyson about a new chicken slaughter technology known as controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK), a process that replaces oxygen in the air with an inert gas such as nitrogen—which already makes up 78 percent of the air we breathe—masking the lack of oxygen and putting the birds to sleep quickly and painlessly. CAK would have eliminated all the cruelty that took place in all these investigations, from mutilation by the cutting machine to live scalding, because the birds would have been killed much earlier in the slaughter process and would not have been handled by the workers until they were dead. "

I really admire the people who can bring themselves to work in a slaughterhouse for a year.

I've been hit with a cold or something and I'm just not up to reading the article. (I saw some of it though.)

I used to live in Corydon, IN where another Tyson plant is located. Looking back, I can see where God was leading me, though I didn't know it at the time. I used to live on the main drag through town. I used to sit on my front porch and smoke. (I no longer smoke, either. :hamster:) Therefore, I used to see the trucks go by. Although I would still eat the meat, I would pity the poor birds. It was even worse when I was driving behind one. I used to think about what went on at that factory. I think it was employed by most of the Mexican immigrants, which is just even sadder.

Thanks for the article. I'll look at it when I'm feeling better.

Laura
(What I could have done if I was more conscious of that while I lived there....)

Sad and just should not happen.