Maltrato Animal en granjas vinculadas a TESCO
Nueva investigación de la organización internacional Igualdad Animal en granjas de pollos en Inglaterra denuncia la crueldad que padecen cientos de animales cada día.
Las granjas pertenecen a Moy Park, uno de los mayores productores de Europa y que provee, entre otros, a TESCO.
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Animal Equality filmed inside four British chicken farms owned by Moy Park, one of the UK’s largest chicken producers.
Moy Park supplies many major retailers, including Tesco.
All four of the farms we visited were found to be independently audited by Integra Food Secure - a service provider contracted by Tesco at the time of filming.
What we found will open your eyes to the harsh reality of the chicken industry…
Birds in too much pain to walk or even stand up.
Chicks deemed too weak or too small to be profitable, killed at just a few days old.
Wheelbarrows full to the brim of dead chicks.
On its website Tesco boasts that animal welfare is important.
So how can it be that the chickens in Tesco’s supply chain suffer so extremely?
A farm manager explained…
“Because at the end of the day, it’s about making money. If I’m going to grow a bird for 30 days, feed it, keep it warm, let it drink the water and everything else, and then it not get processed at the factory because it’s not big enough, it’s just rejected, then I’ve just spent a pound feeding it.”
“Mr Tesco will say ‘right I want 100,000 birds at 1.8 kilos’”
In 2019 Tesco reported Group profits exceeding a staggering £2 billion.
And over recent months, Tesco reported a steep rise in sales, with online purchases up by 48.5% in the first quarter of 2020. The major food retailer is forecasted to see pre-tax profits of £1.85 billion – nearly £300 million more compared to last year’s tax year.
So how exactly do they make their money?
To answer that question, we need to start at the beginning…
Delivered in towering crates, tiny chicks arrive onto each farm.
Trapped and afraid, they chirp loudly. The noise is deafening.
Little care is shown to these gentle animals.
Without the comfort of their mothers, the babies heartbreakingly follow farm workers as though they are a parent who will protect them.
As the days pass by, the chicks grow in size.
Chickens have been selectively bred to become enormous over a short period of time. This gives supermarkets like Tesco more meat to stock on their shelves and more profit for their shareholders.
The rapid and unnatural growth causes the birds to develop serious heart, lung and leg problems.
Some buckle under the weight.
Others are too exhausted to go on.
These farms are operated by Moy Park, which is responsible for raising and slaughtering hundreds of millions of chickens in the UK every single year.
When Moy Park considers a chicken too small or frail to sell to retailers like Tesco, they are killed.
On one day, over 500 died in a single shed.
“Too many dead already. Yesterday I took 500 and something out of this one. Today I’ve done the outside and the post – see where the post is? – and I’ve got 218 already. Yesterday was the same in that shed, same in that shed, same in that shed.”
Alarmingly, many chickens appear to remain conscious after their necks have been broken.
“I did his throat, on here. You will find with chickens, they’ve got nerves, and they still move”
“Yeah, but I’m looking at his eyes and look, he’s blinking”
“Yeah but he’s dying, because I cut off the oxygen”
“Look, he can’t be”
“I’m just asking, but look he is blinking. Blinking is a sign of being absolutely conscious.”