Posted on 11/19/2011 9:42:50 PM PST by MplsSteve
McDonald's Corp. and Target said Friday that they had booted a Minnesota-based egg supplier in the wake of an undercover video documenting alleged animal abuse.
The hidden-camera video was shot by the Chicago animal rights group Mercy for Animals at facilities of Sparboe Farms, the nation's fifth-largest egg producer. Taken in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado, the video portrays crowded cages common in the egg industry, but also shows one worker swinging a chicken by a rope or chain and another stuffing a hen in a co-worker's pants pocket.
Sparboe was also cited this week by federal food regulators for serious violations of salmonella prevention rules, including unsatisfactory rodent control.
After the video came to light, McDonald's told its U.S. egg supply chain manager, Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc., that it would no longer accept Sparboe eggs.
Cargill said in a news release that it, too, was "disturbed" by the images in the video and has suspended Sparboe as a supplier.
Late Friday, Target confirmed that it had not only dumped Sparboe as a supplier, but was also pulling Sparboe eggs off the shelves at Super Target stores nationwide.
"Having been made aware of the unacceptable conditions in the company's egg laying facilities, effective immediately, Target will discontinue its business relationship with Sparboe Farms," the Minnesota-based retailer said in a press release. "We are currently in the process of notifying our stores to remove the product from our shelves."
The alleged abuse didn't occur at the Iowa Sparboe facility that directly supplies McDonald's, but McDonald's sustainability director Bob Langert said in a news release that "the behavior on tape is disturbing and highly unacceptable."
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Ben Franklin sounds lucky to have you. And rabbits are smart. I don’t have any animals inside the house, on principle, but, as I’m sure you know, they can be taught and trained. As a kid, my mom taught my rabbit, Esther (which I got for Easter) to come when she whistled and do her bidding, lol. I remember once, the master bath needed to be redone, as the tiles were coming out and my mom, who was disabled, needed to have a bar (to hold on to) put in. My dad didn’t get around to it for some time, so my mom started putting the rabbit in the shower (dry, no water running) on hot days to keep cool and have Esther “unintentionally” dig up the tiles from the floor of the shower. It only took a few days and Esther had most of the tile ripped out. It made my dad kind of upset, but he finally got around to getting that shower redone, lol.
Wow, I have had some internet issues this evening, and was only able to read the article, but not watch the video. I just got done watching the video. As another FReeper, Huck, mentioned, “Bottom line: It’s a dirty, wicked world.” I know it’s been around since forever (mental health disease/cruelty/torture in general), but seriously, I don’t understand what switch is flipped in people that says it’s “fun,” “ok,” or whatever to torture an animal, some people have no shame. I’m not a fan of industrial animal processing methods in the first place, which is part of why I choose to raise my own.
Our view with wild game has been that they're His critters, and He lets us harvest them as we need to, but to wantonly waste them is an affront to the Creator.
“Our view with wild game has been that they’re His critters, and He lets us harvest them as we need to, but to wantonly waste them is an affront to the Creator.”
Amen!
If the sadist is caught torturing or abusing humans, they should be terminated with extreme prejudice, dug back up out of the grave and terminated with extreme prejudice again.
I’m with you. We eat our critters and eggs they produce. That said, they are happy girls and get treated well with good, clean food and living conditions. Heck, they even have run of the place (er, not the house). When slaughtering, they don’t even know it’s coming because we strive to keep them calm and eliminate blood traces between animals. Frankly, with the care we give and the long term relationship we have with some of them, it is hard to process them. No life without death. Seems like a Supreme Creator might have wanted to drive that message home . . .
They're giving their lives for our sustenance through no sin of their own. Don't torment them, be merciful.
You twu need to get a room! LOL
TWU=TWO! sheese!
I'm going to apologize ahead of time for being terse, but you do seem rather vague on the concept.
The sin of Adam brought death into the world as well as the recognition of nudity. Sacrificial offerings were for the propitiation of the sin entered into the world by Adam. Animals being regarded as food out of necessity entered into the world also due to the sins of mankind, after the destruction of all living, save Noah, his family and those creatures aboard the ark.
Jesus Christ as the final sacrificial lamb, perfect and without spot, was and is victory over the death and sin entered into the world. He's known as the Second Adam.
It's all rather complete. I suggest you try reading the subject matter and better yet understanding it before attempting to lob a poorly aimed bon mot into such a discussion in the future.
And again, I apologize for being short with you, but perhaps it will be to your benefit.
You can keep your sanctimonious, arrogant and boorish drivel to your self. By the way maybe you should make a go at "How to win friends and influence people" by Andrew Carnegie. You're really lacking in your delivery.
Acts 10:9-19 9. About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. ” 12. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. 13. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” 14. “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” 15. The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that G-d has made clean.” 16. This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven. ACTS 10 9-16 Sorry to be so through maybe Buy it is better to error on the side scriptural documentation.
Again, my apologies. I assumed mere ignorance, a reparable condition. My mistake.
For those who actually are willing and able to learn, read the whole book. Animals were not put on this planet for food and clothing, that came later, due to the depredations of mankind.
It’s all in there for those who care to look.
Another nut case.
“You can keep your sanctimonious, arrogant and boorish drivel to your self.”
I, too, have experiences his/her drivel. It’s odd, because (s)he is so doctrinally confused, that, like the Pharisees, (s)he is not going to listen to the message. It takes a lot of convolution to come up with the false doctrines that RegulatorCountry conjures up. It’s funny, because the doctrines of God are so simple that babes can utter and understand them, yet mere mortals like you and I, ontap, apparently can’t comprehend the gospel message. Apparently RegulatorCountry needs to pontificate to us, something that we need no one else but the Holy Spirit (and the prophets inspired by God, from whence Holy scripture comes) to learn.
Don’t bring up the topic of dispensations, or you’re in for a tirade of epic proportions.
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