Additional stuffs to add to Mccruelty. (Some might not be applicable to Mccruelty, but still happens in slaughterhouses.)

In the U.S., chickens killed by McDonald’s suppliers are slaughtered using an outdated method that results in extreme suffering. As the biggest seller of chicken meat in the U.S., McDonald’s has the responsibility—and the ability—to reduce this abuse by demanding that its U.S. suppliers use a less cruel method of slaughter.

the slaughterhouses of McDonald’s U.S. chicken suppliers, birds are dumped out of their transport crates and hung upside-down in metal shackles, which can result in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging. Workers have the opportunity to abuse live birds, and birds have their throats cut while they are still conscious. Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

I shall let the pictures explain.

Transport Dumping
At the slaughterhouse, the terrified chickens are dumped out of the transport crates. Workers grab the birds and force their often broken legs into shackles.

Shackled For Slaughter
The terrified birds struggle to escape their shackles and often defecate and vomit on the workers. An undercover investigator at a Perdue slaughterhouse reported, “The screaming of the birds and the frenzied flapping of their wings was so loud that you had to yell to the worker next to you.”

Struggle To Escape

Throat Cutting Blades

During a PETA investigation of a Tyson slaughterhouse, a Tyson supervisor admitted on camera that the blades often miss the birds’ necks and cut them in other parts of their bodies, causing painful injuries. This bird was cut above her right leg.

Dead Birds

This bird fell out of the leg shackles and on the ground after her throat was slit.

Stunning
After they are shackled, chickens are dragged through an electrified water bath that paralyzes them but doesn’t render them unconscious. As a result, chickens are often still conscious when their throats are cut. In her renowned book, Slaughterhouse, Gail Eisnitz explains: “Other industrialized nations require that chickens be rendered unconscious or killed prior to bleeding and scalding, so they won’t have to go through those processes conscious. Here in the United States, however, poultry plants—exempt from the Humane Slaughter Act and still clinging to the industry myth that a dead animal won’t bleed properly—keep the stunning current down to about one-tenth of that needed to render a chicken unconscious.” The bones of hens used for eggs are so brittle that they would shatter if they were dunked in the electric bath, so these birds go straight to the throat-cutting machines while they are still flapping their wings and frantically trying to escape.

Necks Cut Manually
A worker cuts the throats of birds who managed to avoid the mechanical blade. A PETA investigator in a Tyson slaughterhouse found workers ripping the heads off chickens who had missed the throat-cutting blades.

Dismemberment
When a PETA employee investigated a Tyson slaughterhouse from December 2004 to February 2005, he saw employees routinely pull the heads off birds who had avoided the neck-cutting blade and toss their heads on the ground. Watch the undercover video.

Bleeding To Death
The conveyor belt keeps moving as blood drains out of the birds. Many birds miss the throat-cutting blades altogether, and others have their throats only partially cut or are cut on a different part of their body. These birds remain conscious as they move down the line.

Defeathering Tanks
After their throats are cut, the chickens are dragged through tanks of scalding-hot water to remove their feathers. The slaughter line moves so fast that the birds often don’t have enough time to die, and many are still conscious when they are submerged in the scalding-hot water. Chickens (as well as turkeys and fish) are exempt from the Humane Slaughter Act, so they have no federal protection from the most egregious cruelty in slaughterhouses.

Packaged
After a miserable life and a torturous death, chickens are dismembered and packaged for consumers. Their flesh is usually contaminated with bacteria because of the filthy conditions in factory farms and slaughterhouses. One U.S. Department of Agriculture study found more than 99 percent of the chickens it tested to be tainted with E. coli bacteria, and scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently reported that 96 percent of the Tyson chicken flesh it tested was contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant campylobacter bacteria.

Remains
The remains of the chickens that can’t be sold to consumers are ground up and fed back to factory-farmed animals or sold to dog- and cat-food manufacturers.

In 2000, following the launch of PETA’s (original) McCruelty campaign, McDonald’s made some basic animal welfare improvements. Since that time, the company has refused to eliminate the worst abuses that its chickens suffer in the U.S., including abuses during slaughter. This cruelty would be illegal if dogs or cats—or even pigs or cows—were the victims.

There is a less cruel method of slaughter available today that would eliminate these abuses, yet McDonald’s refuses to require its U.S. suppliers to switch to this method.

Adapted from: http://goveg.com/photos_chickens.asp