Inside this Bell & Evans facility, where an estimated 20 million baby birds are hatched each year, our video shows chicks being treated like mere inanimate objects:

Baby birds who are sick, injured, or otherwise deemed unfit for processing being dumped into a grinder while fully conscious

Hours-old chicks jostled from machine to machine in a highly mechanized process

Chicks with bloody, open wounds or other apparent injuries, deformities, or illnesses

Dead chicks, who did not survive this harsh process, left in baskets with live birds

Watch our video and you decide – does this look humane or compassionate to you?

No matter how it may be marketed to consumers, animal cruelty is standard practice in the chicken industry.

More than 8 billion birds are raised and killed for food each year in the U.S. – and with virtually no legal protections whatsoever, their short lives are filled with misery. The most effective way each of us can help end this abuse is to simply leave chickens, and all animals, off our plates.