Footage recorded secretly shows Chickens Apparently, writing in crisis and providing meat for supermarkets, including Tesco, are trying strictly for the knee for death.
What has been thought of its kind video ever before, birds are seen rotating their necks because they have been killed carbon dioxideThey are also heard by panting and screaming high-blows for breath.
Recording – Workers who say that a slaughterhouse was supported RSPCA Assurance – Show Chickens The gas is being launched in the room and dying during several minutes.
Critics stated that the scenes bare the “frightening” behind the production of eggs in the UK – including the fate of the free -range and organic hanes.
Chickens Egg production It is refused “spent” is spent before they are killed and their bodies are packed for meat.
Animals have objected to pigs over the years carbon dioxideWarning to animals “Burned inside from inside“And in the last minutes of his life, he is extremely suffering.
Last year, 99 percent of the chickens of “expenses” were stunned and was murdered with it. CO2And 77 percent meat Chickens According to government figures, they were killed in this way.
In recent years Carbon dioxide as a slaughter method Gradually electrical water bath stunning has changed, which has expressed concern over the stun’s inconvenience.
Footage taken with hidden cameras shows chickens – woman Chickens Used for laying Eggs – When they die, and some birds clearly try to escape, then rotate in crisis.
According to activist, filmmaker and vegetarian advocate Joy Carbstrong, the gas chamber floor jumped from dead birds, which used to install cameras.
Mr. Carbstrong and other activists say they shot a video in a slaughterhouse in West Yorkshire run by HCF Poultry. The company denied that it was on their premises.
HCF supplies Crancyvic Foods, one of Britain’s largest meat producers, which processes chickens in widely sold chicken meat products in the UK.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by criesvic or slaughterhouses because using CO2 is a completely valid way to slaughter chickens. However, Mr. Carbstrong said that the video “exposed the callus treatment of the free-range Hens when they are no longer profitable”.
“This footage destroys the industry’s careful curate Image of ‘Happy Hanes’ And how these sensitive birds are abandoned, the terrible truth of it is revealed, ”he said.
“The public is being misled by labeling and what they are buying, the right to know the reality behind it.”
Mr. Carbstrong said: “Egg -laying chickens have been manipulated to produce about 300 genetically. Eggs Per year – Naturally beyond 10 to 15 eggs, his ancestors are placed by red junglefowels.
“This excessive egg production takes a serious toll on their body in many ways. Whether they are free-range, barn-rolled or captive, most chickens take thousands of people to dirty sheds, where fierce and cannibals in the disease drive dead and dying birds widely.
“After only 18 months of tireless exploitation, they are forced to experience a terrible and tortured death before being processed into food products.”
Independent Earlier a case has been revealed “Cruel crowd” being placed in cages with insufficient water And one more when Sick and dying chickens were found with living people in a free-range egg farm Along with the leading supermarket -the supply of marks and spencer.
About 35 million “spending” chickens are killed for their meat in a year, showing figures. According to a 2018 document, HCF can process 10,500 birds, the latest available.
Jenny L Mess, An Associate Lecturer in animal welfare But University of vinchesterA report on the footage states that the most related to findings were High-picked screams, gaspingFabrication with equipment, and chickens fall against each other and out of boxes.
“Without the use of a fairly less adverse gas or gas mixture, it is difficult to see how this method is equal to 1) The replacement for the pre-slaping of a viable (high-welfare) chickens and stunning and stunning in a water bath, and 2) the purpose of a human death or surprise,” he wrote.
He said that CO2 caused the respiratory crisis, and described it as an anesthetic “may be misleading” because it causes crisis.
“There is no suggestion on the case that it is a ‘bad apple’; it is standard practice and according to the law,” he wrote.
Andrew OP of British Retail Consortium said on behalf of Tesco and other supermarkets: “Our members know how important it is animal welfare Their customers are for and take their responsibilities very seriously for animal welfare to ensure that the expected standards are being met. ,
RSPCA Assured that the birds were already unconscious in the footage and were not in pain.
A spokesman said the footage was deeply upset, but carbon dioxide was allowed under RSPCA welfare standards, saying: “However, RSPCA standards set the requirements that go above the law to ensure a more human process.
“Due to their physiology, when birds lose consciousness, their brain no longer controls their body – which can cause involuntary movements seen in the footage. It can be incredibly difficult to see but birds are really unconscious when this happens, and not experiencing pain.”
Cranswick did not respond to the request to comment.
