One of Canada’s largest chicken producers is investigating alleged animal rights violations at its slaughterhouse, one year after a court found it guilty of failing to provide human treatment for thousands of poultry. The group Mercy for Animals has made public video it says it obtained from a hidden camera at Maple Lodge Farms.
It alleges that chickens are not protected from the cold and freeze to death en route to the plant. It also says the chickens are treated roughly suffering broken bones and electrical shocks that fail to stun the birds before they are killed.
A spokeswoman for the company says word of these allegations has prompted the firm to take firm action.
Last year, a court in the province of Ontario ordered Maple Lodge Farms to spend at least one million dollars over three years to ensure it complies with federal government rules on the humane treatment of animals.
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