More Abuse At Tyson Foods

There are so many problems with industrial food production these days and the degree of animal abuse has been documented many times. So you would think by now some of these companies would have gotten the message and cleaned up their act. Apparently Tyson Foods is not one of them. A new undercover video shows shocking animal abuse of chickens at Tyson breeding facilities in Virginia. And this wasn’t just unsupervised workers abusing these animals, it was managers and supervisors as well. As the director of the group Compassion Over Killing that released the video points out, this is not the first time Tyson has been caught abusing animals and claims that this recent release shows “that there is a culture of cruelty at Tyson Foods.” Tyson was also the company that so restricted bathroom breaks at their processing plants that workers took to wearing diapers in order to stay at their station. Tyson is also part of the oligopoly that 80% of the beef and 65% of the pork slaughtered in this country, as well as 60% of the chicken market. I have written about this before, but there really needs to be some sort of “death penalty” for these companies like Tyson that are serial offenders, where they either have to divest some business or withdraw from a particular market for a period of time as punishment. Nothing short of that seems to stop their continued lawless behavior.