By Julia Bertino
Apr 12, 2021
(Fremont, NE) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for an investigation to be launched after they say tens of thousands of chickens were not given food and water, leading to the deaths of over 1,000 birds.
In a press release, PETA said they got U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that showed that roughly 30,500 chickens were held in, severely crowded crates on trucks overnight without food or water at Lincoln Premium Poultry near Fremont. PETA claimed in the release that 1,622 chickens were found dead the next day as a result.
Monday morning, PETA sent a letter to Dodge County Attorney Paul J. Vaughan requesting a criminal probe and for charges to e filed under Nebraska’s livestock neglect law. PETA states that Lincoln Premium Poultry exclusively supplies Costco stores.
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Saline County, Neb. – After PETA obtained U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) documents revealing that over a two-day period, 91 pigs slowly froze to death on trucks while exposed to temperatures as low as minus 27 degrees at the Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in Crete, the animal rights group sent a letter today to Saline County Sheriff Alan Moore requesting a criminal probe and charges under Nebraska’s Livestock Animal Welfare Act.
The USDA investigated the facility after receiving a letter from PETA, and agency officials found that
every pen inside the barn in which animals are left before slaughter contained pigs who sustained frostbite lesions as large as a foot in diameter. The documents obtained by PETA through a Freedom of Information Act request also reveal that Smithfield workers did not unload pigs for more than an hour roughly
WESTPORT Meatworks on State Road was issued a suspension notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for how it recently handled euthanizing a cow.
Andy Burnes, president of the Livestock Institute of Southern New England, said Meatworks took the issue seriously, took corrective measures, and the suspension only lasted for one day earlier this month. Meatworks, the State Road meat processing plant and store is owned by the non-profit LISNE.
The plant is back in operation. It received its letter a few weeks ago on a Friday and shut down on a Saturday, according to Burnes. On a Sunday night, the USDA office in Philadelphia approved plans and allowed it to reopen the following Monday, according to Burnes.