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A peta2 undercover investigation at a KFC “Supplier of the Year” slaughterhouse in Butterfield, Missouri, documented that live birds were being thrown by workers and crushed by metal dumping machines. Birds were often impaled by mangled transport cages, and workers were instructed to simply yank them out when this happened; peta2's investigator saw workers doing this and found dismembered limbs left behind in cages after the birds had been removed. Birds also got stuck in the spring-loaded doors of the cages, and workers whacked them with metal poles in order to push the doors open, sometimes impaling live birds. One morning, peta2's investigator saw roughly 50 “red birds”—the ones who are scalded to death in defeathering tanks while they're still conscious.
