‪McDonald's Cruelty: The Rotten Truth About Egg McMuffins‬

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation into a McDonald's egg supplier exposes the fast-food giant's secret ingredient: shocking cruelty to animals.

Hidden-camera footage taken at Sparboe Egg Farm facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado reveals:

* Hens crammed into filthy wire cages with less space for each bird than a standard-sized sheet of paper to live her entire miserable life, unable to fully stretch her wings or engage in most other natural behaviors

* Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks without any painkillers and callously throwing them into cages, some missing the cage doors and hitting the floor

* Rotted hens, decomposed beyond recognition as birds, left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption

* A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device - violence described as "torture" by another worker

* Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire - others suffering from open wounds and torn beaks

* Live chicks thrown into plastic bags to be suffocated

Common sense tells us that animals should be given at a minimum the freedom to walk, stretch their limbs, turn around and engage in natural behaviors. Yet, this McDonald's supplier deprives hens of even
these most basic freedoms.

Barren battery cages are so cruel that the entire European Union and the states of California and Michigan have banned their use. Additionally, leading food retailers, such as Whole Foods, Hellmann's, and Wolfgang Puck, and hundreds of colleges and universities refuse to use or sell eggs from hens subjected to the inherent abuses of battery cages.

MFA is calling on McDonald's Corporation to end its use of eggs from hens confined in battery cages in the United States, as it has already in the European Union.

Sadly, not a single federal law currently provides any protection to birds at the hatchery, on the factory farm, or during slaughter. Further, most states - including those in which this investigation was conducted - have sweeping exemptions for farmed animals, which allow for abuses to run rampant without prosecution.

While McDonald's has the moral obligation and purchasing power to lessen the cruelty suffered by the millions of hens who are abused and exploited to produce eggs for its restaurants, consumers also hold enormous power of their own in preventing animal abuse by adopting a compassionate vegan diet.

http://www.MercyForAnimals.org
http://www.McDonaldsCruelty.com

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[JRAYNEM]

No more eggs. Done.

[Iamjanwar]

How shameful that McDonald's is responsible for so much suffering. Those golden arches, in my mind, stand for little more than callous cruelty.

[tampabayparenting]

Anyone who treats animals as commodity's is evil. Not only does is grossly mistreat animals it is poisoning human beings. @angelaardolino

[OriginalCliche]

I'm a pretty indifferent person and this made me cry.

(I am pretty sure we've been buying battery cage chicken eggs)

I'll be raising my own now thank you...that way I am sure they led a happy full life and were appreciated.

[OriginalCliche]

I'm a pretty indifferent person and this made me cry.

No more chicken, no more eggs (I am pretty sure we were buying battery cage chicken eggs)

I'll be raising my own now thank you...that way I am sure they led a happy full life and were appreciated.

[GreenMoonArt]

Torture - the price of cheap (unhealthy) food. Good thing pizza is a vegetable.

[neroneous]

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” ~ Sir Paul McCartney - Go veg, people!!

[pocketocrisps]

The Hispanic guy at 1:59 makes me feel better. It's good to know that some of these employees can afford compassion. It must be really difficult to not become sadistic when your job is to kill without mercy.

[pocketocrisps]

This is what you get, America, when you wanted more, and wanted to pay less. Our gluttony is destroying the world.

[Blake1989abc]

looks delicious

[Das Boot]

mmm chicken... still its cruel as hell.

[Elizabeth Blaze]

Thank you Mercy For Animals. Thank you for witnessing and for opening eyes.