Undercover video shows dying chicks, ducklings at Live Oak hatchery

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Undercover video shows dying chicks, ducklings at Live Oak hatchery


SANTA CRUZ — An animal rights group Wednesday released a video of workers processing ducklings and chicks at a Live Oak hatchery, focusing on the maimed casualties, as they sought to prompt the county District Attorney's Office to file animal cruelty charges against the company.

The District Attorney's Office released a statement late Wednesday intimating they had insufficient evidence to prosecute.

The four-minute video was shot by an undercover employee at Cal-Cruz Hatcheries during a three-week period last year, said Erica Meier, director of Compassion Over Killing, a Washington D.C. nonprofit that advocates for humane treatment of farm animals and vegetarianism.

It shows workers treating the
chirping small birds as commodities, seemingly without notice of their pain, and allowing them to flail around where they fell, after being chewed up by machinery or otherwise fatally mangled.

The company president said he plans to make some changes to avoid suffering.

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[PDJane]

1. There has to be a more humane way for us to eat...........

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2. My grandma used to have chickens, and rabbits.

When dad was a boy he would go out and kill a chicken for dinner. They roamed the backyard (but had a hen house and such). The rabbits she kept in big cages (I remember those, but not the chickens - I think because when they moved to Ohio she only kept rabbits then).

She always had eggs and meat and did not treat them cruel (well, unless you consider killing them cruel) during their tenure with her.

My dad's dad died when dad was 13, and grandma did her best to provide. If she could do it in a human fashion I am sure others could as well.

[damntexdem]

3. There is, but I don't like the taste ...

of so-called animal-rights activists.

;-)

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4. I dunno, a few of them from Peta look mighty tasy

:evilgrin: