Cruel chicken production of India
Animal Equality's investigation brings to light the cruel practices adopted by the chicken farms which violate the most basic animal welfare and food safety standards.
The investigation carried out in several chicken farms and meat markets across India covers the entire cruel cycle that birds are put through, right from the day they’re born till they end up on our plates.
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Chickens are curious birds.
They can solve complex problems, count and just like us.
They also dream when they sleep.
They have the best friends whom they play with
and avoid the chickens they dislike.
This is Gloria. We rescued her from a factory farm
after she had been thrown into a garbage container.
She barely survived, but now she loves to cuddle
and run around just like us.
Chickens feel pain when injured and try to survive
and avoid danger at all costs.
This sensitive side
of chickens is something we don't generally see.
Instead, we see them trapped in cages loaded onto WANs
and being slaughtered in meat shops.
More than 300 million chickens are killed every year in
India, who just like Gloria, have unique personalities
and a strong will to live.
Animal equality visited several chicken factory farms across
India
from the very first day that they break out of the shelves.
They don't receive a mother's love.
Instead, they're roughly stuffed in small boxes
and sent on rigorously long journeys to factory farms.
Some die even before the journey begins, while others die
before they arrive at the destination.
Once they arrive at the farm, the birds are forced
to live on their own feces.
As a little isn't cleaned.
They are made to grow so quickly that they will reach two
to 2.5 kilos in just 35 to 45 days,
which causes them many health problems.
It should take months for a chick to reach the weight
of an adult chicken.
Their delicate legs can't keep up
with this unnatural weight gain.
Their legs get crippled and they can't walk
or reach the food or water.
Many fall ill and die of starvation.
Others will die of heart attacks or respiratory infections.
Given the filth
and harsh conditions that are a fertile breeding ground
for diseases, they are routinely given
antibiotics through feed.
This massive use of antibiotics results in the appearance
of drug resistant bacteria that threaten human health.
Still, sites of ill and dead births are very common.
Those who make it this far are sent to slaughter.
Some are transported on motorcycles while others
are crammed in large numbers.
In tiny rusted metal racks of transport wells,
the journey lasts many hours and sometimes days.
By the time they reach the market, many are dead
and the rest are barely alive.
You are sick or injured.
They don't receive any food or water,
and they're handled in the most brutal manner.
After many hours
or even days of suffering, the throats are slit
and they're thrown into drain bins
where they languish in pain for several minutes
before they tie
The unhygienic condition of meat.
Markets also give rise to malaria, typhoid, jaundice,
and other diseases among residents living in the area.
According to the food safety law,
chickens should only be killed at licensed slaughter houses.
But in practice, they're slaughtered openly at almost
every meat shop.
This is illegal.
This is a second investigation.
Animal equality has carried out into
India's poultry industry.
We have also conducted investigations into industrial egg
farms across India, documenting the abuse
and terrible conditions endured by hens.
Animal equality has presented its findings, along
with suggestions to improve the lives
of these birds to the government.
And now it is your turn to help these animals.
Please request the government to take action today.
Sign and share our petition now,
and please consider leaving chickens off your plate.