Chicago –
McDonald's dropped an egg supplier after the Food and Drug
Administration found it to have “filthy conditions and unacceptable
rodent activity.” An animal rights group, Mercy for Animals, also
exposed the inhumane treatment of the chickens.
After inspecting
five egg facilities, in Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado, the FDA issued
a warning to Sparboe Farms saying there were “serious violations”
of a law put into place to prevent the spread of salmonella.
McDonald's
vice president, Bob Langert, released a statement today saying the
choice to let go of Sparboe Farms was out of “concern
regarding the management of Sparboe's facilities.” Mercy for
Animals was also a factor in the decision after the group released a
tri-state three-month-long investigation of its farms.
“Wired with a pin-hole camera,”
Mercy for Animals executive director Nathan Runkle said, the worker
“documented repeated cases of animal abuse and neglect.”
The video, posted here on Youtube and
here on their site, shows dead and live chickens in the same
enclosure, chicks with broken beaks, talk of workers abusing the
animals, and live chickens being discarded with dead ones in plastic
bags.
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