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Mt Barker Misery

Mt Barker Misery

 

 

Mt Barker Free Range Chicken sells its brand as an idyllic image of happy, fluffy hens roaming free in grassy fields… but our investigation revealed a different scene: crammed steel sheds, horrific suffering and cannibalism.

Buyer Beware

 

The Australian company sells its miserable products at Coles, Woolworths, and Health Freak Cafe. It claims to ensure, "animals are free from hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain or distress."

Mt Barker Free Range Chicken is even certified and endorsed by the RSPCA in its "Humane Shopping" guide as a "free range and humanely farmed RSPCA Approved chicken product."

It is shockingly clear from our undercover footage that animal welfare measures are failing horribly, with thousands of chicks forced to live short, miserable lives.

 

Why Are "Free Range" Chickens Inside?
Most chickens won’t go outside until they are fully feathered (at around 21 days old), so “free range” chickens will only experience the outdoors for a brief 10-14 days before slaughter, assuming they can push themselves through the congested sheds and aren’t suffering from disease or injury.

Is This a Public Health Concern?
Cannibalism of rotting flesh can cause botulism in poultry. Botulism is a serious neurotoxin. It can survive high temperatures including boiling water, so even after cooking, infected meat can be unsafe for humans to consume.

What YOU Can Do:

Join us in demanding Mt Barker Chicken installs live cameras so that the public can see the state of the animals for themselves, since the company is incapable of knowing when animals suffer from hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain and distress.

1) The best way to save animals from suffering is to leave them off our plates. Click here to learn how you can switch to a delicious, compassionate and healthy plant-based diet. 

2) Send our letter to Mt Barker Free Range Chicken to demand accountability for the animals who have suffered, and its consumers who have been misled, by completing the form found on the right-side of this page.

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