My name is Mark, and I worked at more than a dozen chicken factory farms that supply Lilydale, which sells chicken to Loblaws grocery stores across Canada.<\/p>\n
While working at Lilydale chicken supplier farms, I witnessed some of the most sadistic animal abuse imaginable<\/strong>, including workers kicking, hitting, and throwing birds; slamming them hard against walls and transport crates; and gleefully ripping the legs off conscious animals.<\/p>\n One day\u00a0I watched in horror as a worker tried to rip a bird in half with his bare hands and then threw her badly mangled\u2014but still living\u2014body onto the ground for her to slowly die<\/strong>. Other days I saw workers torment frightened animals in sexually explicit ways in full view of company management.<\/p>\n I documented these abuses using a hidden camera.\u00a0You can watch my video footage above or at ChickenTorture.ca.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nobody did anything to stop this unspeakable animal abuse, which is why I\u2019m coming forward now.\u00a0With help from Mercy For Animals, I\u2019ve submitted a detailed complaint to law enforcement<\/strong>\u00a0and am hopeful that they will take swift action.<\/p>\n But I\u2019m also calling on Loblaws grocery stores to enact a much-needed animal welfare policy requiring Lilydale and its other chicken suppliers to end the worst forms of animal abuse in their supply chains.<\/strong><\/p>\n While I can\u2019t say with certainty that the same chickens documented in my video ended up in Loblaws stores, I do know they went to a Lilydale slaughterhouse in British Columbia. And I know that same Lilydale slaughterhouse sells chicken to Loblaws stores. A meaningful animal welfare policy by Loblaws, as a major purchaser of Lilydale chicken, would prevent much of the most egregious abuse I witnessed.<\/p>\n Please, take a moment to sign my petition\u00a0<\/strong>urging Loblaws to require its suppliers to end some of the worst forms of animal abuse.<\/p>\n Then share the hidden-camera video with friends and encourage them to take action too.<\/strong><\/p>\n After seeing what I saw, I can\u2019t imagine ever eating chicken again. In addition to taking action here, please consider joining me by pledging to leave chicken off your plate for good.<\/p>\n Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","petition_category":[32],"petition_topics":[33,121,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition\/5145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/petition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"petition_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_category?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"petition_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charitablehumans.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/petition_topics?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}