Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Animal Equality has published harrowing footage of chickens suffering on a German farm used by the country’s largest chicken producer, Wiesenhof.

The company’s products are distributed widely, including by major German retailers Edeka and Rewe.

THE DETAILS: During undercover research at a broiler chicken farm in the German state Saxony-Anhalt from February to April 2020, numerous violations of animal welfare regulations were documented.

The resulting material was leaked to Animal Equality and on December 11, 2020, we filed a complaint against the farm with the relevant German authorities. The images captured by activists are disturbing:

– The animals are brutally kicked and aggressively pushed through the hall by the workers.

– The workers repeatedly perform so-called emergency kills in violation of regulations and animal welfare. The animals’ necks are twisted, and these attempts to kill them take place without anesthesia. In many cases, the animals are disposed of alive in buckets.

– Many of the animals writhe in pain after the cruel killing attempts, sometimes for several minutes until they slowly die in agony.

BACKGROUND: In this operation alone, approximately 210,000 animals are affected by such cruel conditions.

The PHW Group, which includes Wiesenhof, is Germany’s largest poultry breeder and processor and one of the largest companies in the German food industry, slaughtering 354 million birds annually.

Wiesenhof: It is routine practice in the poultry industry to dispose of animals while they are alive.

CREATING BREEDING GROUNDS FOR DISEASE: In today’s world, the impacts of inadequate hygiene measures on farms are more important than ever.

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/12/29/chicken-farming-in-germany-the-scandals-have-no-end/

And I mean…Throwing away and cruelty to animals has a long tradition on this farm.
As early as 2010 and after undercover recordings, there were serious allegations against Wiesenhof.

A tenant couple said at the time:

“We were taught to break the necks of animals without anesthesia, without holding a stick. This is exactly how the vaccination team did it and this is exactly how a Dr. Löhren killed the animals. “

After the publication of this first Wiesenhof scandal in January 2010, the regulations were changed.
Previous anesthesia with a wooden club or a rubber mallet is mandatory for all farmers.
Also for the chicken baron Wiesenhof.

And yet ten years later everything stays the same.

Wiesenhof, like other animal farms, has strong lobbyists in politics, which explains a lot in relation to the undisturbed operation of a farm that should have been closed long ago.

If even members of parliament like Johannes Röring and Josef Riefs keep pigs under dire conditions, why should the Wiesenhof be afraid of punishment?

In total, the PHW Group slaughters around 350 million broilers per year under its Wiesenhof label.

Where tens of thousands of animals are housed in a confined space, e.g. B. 27 chickens per square meter, dangerous pathogens multiply at lightning speed. Since not every sick animal can be treated individually, a dose is quickly administered via the drinking water.

This way, the healthy animals get antibiotics right away – practical, because antibiotics are cheap fattening accelerators.

One of the suppliers of the most famous fast-food chain Mc Donalds is the company “Wiesenhof”!

McDonald’s has so far obtained around three percent of the poultry meat it sells in Germany from Wiesenhof.
Measured against the high consumption, this makes up at least 20 tons per week – extrapolated over a year that is more than 1000 tons.

Animal welfare is anything but fair for animals in Germany.
That only protects the crueler.

These documentations prove the fact: Illegal animal cruelty practices are quite “normal” in the meat industry, also in Germany

My best regards to all, Venus

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