For Immediate Release:
May 7, 2025
Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
Austin, Texas – A veteran meat industry insider is blowing the whistle, turning to PETA for help addressing allegedly abusive handling of chickens that cause them injuries and botched killings at a chicken supplier that is “animal welfare certified” by the locally headquartered Global Animal Partnership, a meat, egg, and dairy humane-washing scheme that cons consumers into paying more for the same old cruelties. The certification props up factory farms and allows animal-exploiting companies to slap the deceptive labels on their products—even though PETA investigators have documented widespread and systemic cruelty and suffering at all 12 certified facilities they visited.
This afternoon, PETA met with Farmer Focus executives in person to share the video and photo evidence provided by the whistleblower, but the executives refused to commit to any action to prevent cruelty to chickens from occurring at the slaughterhouse and on contract farms and declined to say if they already knew about such abuses.
The whistleblower indicated that birds were “slammed” and caught in cage trays during transport, breaking and bruising their wings and legs.
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