For immediate release:
January 27, 2022
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Springdale, Ark. – After the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) document revealed that slaughterhouse workers chickens in cages languish without food or water for three days At George’s disposition in Springdale, PETA sent a letter today to Springdale Attorney Ernest Cate, urging him to review the matter and, if appropriate, file criminal charges against animals to responsible people.
According to reports, a federal inspector found two dehydrated chickens locked in a trailer at the abattoir on April 19, 2021, and determined that the chickens arrived there on April 16. was given no water or food and was exposed to temperatures ranging from 34 to 81 degrees.
Add file shows that the USDA cited Springdale-based Tyson Foods a total of 15 times at 11 different chicken slaughterhouses April-September 2021 — more than any other U.S. poultry company during that period. Birds burned to death in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas. In Arkansas, birds drowned in a vat of electrified water and a chicken was crushed and suffocated in a cage; in Missouri, a worker threw raw chicken at a coworker’s leg; and at facilities in Mississippi and Virginia, inspectors found live birds discarded in dead bird containers.
PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch said: “If anyone left the dogs in cages to languish without food or water for days, they would face multiple animal cruelty charges. , and chickens suffer the same and are also protected by law”. “PETA is calling for a criminal investigation into the gruesome fate of these birds, who feel the same pain and fear as the animals that live in our house.”
PETA — in part, their motto that “animals are not ours to eat” — opposes ethnocentrism, a human worldview – supremacy. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Cate later.
January 27, 2022
Honorable Cate Ernest
Springdale City Attorney
To Mr. Cate:
I am writing to request that your office (and local law enforcement agency, as you deem appropriate) investigate and file applicable criminal charges against George’s Processing, Inc. and the worker(s) responsible for leaving the chicken in the cage without water or food for three days at its slaughterhouse at 1306 N. Kansas St. in Springdale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recorded the incident, and the agency has just made it public. (See first row in attached table.)
According to reports, on April 19, 2021, at approximately 8:40 a.m., an FSIS inspector found two chickens housed on an empty trailer at the abattoir. Inspectors determined that the birds arrived at the abattoir before 12:48 p.m. on April 16 — and had been kept in cages without water or food since and exposed to temperatures between 34 and 81 degrees. Federal officials noted that the birds were already dehydrated. (Since feed is withdrawn from chickens up to 18 hours before shipping, these birds are likely to be denied feed for four days.)
This behavior may violate ACA § 5-62-103. Please note that FSIS action does not relieve state law of criminal liability for slaughterhouses or their workers who commit acts of animal cruelty. For more information about FSIS’s findings, please contact Superintendent Jeffery Barham. Please let me know if I can assist you. Thank you for your review and for the important work you do.
Best regards,
Daniel Paden
Vice President of Evidence Analysis
The Bureau of Cruelty Investigation
