Costco is violating animal welfare laws to sell $4.99 rotisserie chicken, lawsuit claims

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A new lawsuit alleges that Costco, by trying to cut costs for their rotisserie chickens, is violating animal welfare laws

Legal Impact for Chickens

, the group behind the lawsuit, claimed, “Costco’s directors and officers have violated their fiduciary duty by knowingly causing Costco to neglect and abandon chickens in violation of state law” — namely, in Nebraska and Iowa where the company keeps chickens. The lawsuit also claimed that the wholesale retailer bred their chickens so quickly that “many of them cannot stand under their own weight.”

“Costco then sends millions of these fast-growing birds to dirty, crowded, factory farms, run by inexperienced contract growers who Costco recruited and trained. There, disabled birds slowly die from hunger, thirst, injury, and illness,”

 

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Chicken is good

$10 will be enough to guarantee those chickens welfare?

🤮 Finally the truth is out there. So many will continue to ignore this and keep eating…

Reminds me of that first episode of Portlandia

More proof we have a mental health problem in America, not a gun problem

The chickens deserve to be treated nicely before they get murdered and eaten

They trash anyways

Those costco chickens look pretty healthy, unlike organic chickens which get rushed to market because they're sick.

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