Chickens on industrial poultry farms, like those that supply [Company], are trapped in a life of misery from the moment they hatch.
Packed by the thousands into filthy, overcrowded shed, many birds are forced to stand in their own waste, leading to burns on their feet and chest. The ammonia from the waste fills the air, making it hard for birds to breathe, leaving many with painful respiratory issues.
On farms that supply [Company], chickens are bred to grow so unnaturally fast that their bodies balloon to sizes their bones cannot support. With legs buckling under their own weight they often collapse, unable to reach food or water.
Many die from heart failure or skeletal disorders before they can even be sent to slaughter.
But for those that make it, the suffering only intensifies. Roughly handled and thrown into transport crates, chickens are often injured before they even reach the slaughterhouse. Many are still conscious when their throats are slit, left to bleed out in agony.
Their last moments are filled with fear, pain, and a complete absence of compassion.
Mother pigs on farms that supply to [Company] endure unimaginable torment. Confined for nearly their entire lives in tiny gestation crates, they are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably.
These intelligent, social animals are reduced to living in cold metal cages, standing on hard, slatted floors covered in their own waste. Their bodies become sore and bruised from the relentless confinement, with nothing to ease their physical agony or mental anguish.
On pig farms like these, tail docking and teeth clipping are routinely performed without anesthesia, leaving pigs writhing in pain as their bodies are mutilated.
At slaughter, many pigs are improperly stunned and remain conscious while they are butchered, thrashing in fear and pain as their lives are brutally cut short.
The emotional toll is just as severe. Pigs are highly social and intelligent, capable of forming bonds and experiencing emotions.
Pigs in [Company’s] supply chain are denied everything that makes life worth living, just so [Company] can save a few pennies.
Hooked to milking machines day after day, dairy cows in [Company’s] supply chain are pushed to the limit.
This often results in agonizing infections like mastitis where their swollen udders become inflamed from overmilking.
[Company] allows dairy cows in its supply chain to be subjected to tail docking and dehorning, brutal procedures often performed without any anesthesia, leaving them to suffer in silence.
Cows can also be tied by the neck in one spot all day, preventing them from turning, walking around, or exhibiting other natural behaviors.
On many farms, shortly after birth babies are torn away from their mothers and crammed into veal crates or chained by the neck in veal pens until the day they are killed. [Company] has no policy barring this despicable practice from its supply chain.
But perhaps the most heartbreaking cruelty is the treatment of baby calves….
On farms that supply [Company] with beef, producers are allowed by [Company] to carry out painful mutilations such as dehorning, where cattle’s horns are sawed or burned off without anesthesia, or castration without anesthesia
The pain can be excruciating, and can lead to infection and chronic long-term pain.
[Company] allows dairy cows in its supply chain to be subjected to tail docking and dehorning, brutal procedures often performed without any anesthesia, leaving them to suffer in silence.
Cows can also be tied by the neck in one spot all day, preventing them from turning, walking around, or exhibiting other natural behaviors.
The emotional toll is just as severe. Pigs are highly social and intelligent, capable of forming bonds and experiencing emotions.
Pigs in [Company’s] supply chain are denied everything that makes life worth living, just so [Company] can save a few pennies.
Fish and crustaceans in [Company]’s supply chain face a brutal existence. At [Company’s] factory farm seafood suppliers, animals are packed into overcrowded, filthy waters.
Their bodies are often riddled with deformities and open sores from sea lice and other irritants. Disease runs rampant, with a large percentage of animals suffering to death from disease before even making it to slaughter.
Methods such as trawling and longlining that kill large numbers of bycatch animals, damage local ecosystems, and lead to painful and prolonged suffering as animals linger for hours or days jammed in nets or dangling on hooks.
Wild-caught fish in [Company’s] supply chain face similar cruelty. [Company] has no public policy prohibiting cruel and environmentally devastating capture methods from being used.
These methods include cutting them open while alive and fully conscious, cooking them while alive and fully conscious, slowly asphyxiating them, or beating them to death.
The slaughter process is no less horrific. [Company] allows its seafood suppliers to kill animals in the most brutal ways possible.
the Five Freedoms
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