In the hidden footage, we see an animal protection activist who has gone undercover and been employed in one of the Swedish Aviagen SweChick’s facilities. Among other things, the employee has filmed an injured hen being eaten, hens that have been plucked for feathers and hens that are killed without first being stunned. – Hell The chickens are of the Ross 308 breed, which 70 per cent of the chicken sold in Norwegian stores consists of. The entire Ross production in Norway gets its eggs from Swedish Aviagen’s hens, according to Nortura. The breed is controversial because it was bred to grow quickly, and Nortura had plans to phase it out. Now they want to change their plans according to VG, and have requested a meeting with Aviagen. – We believe that there is good reason to see if we should increase the pace now, says executive director Kjell S. Rakkenes to the newspaper. Live Kleveland in the Animal Protection Alliance tells VG she has never seen worse conditions. – This is hell. If hell exists, it looks like this. – There are pictures of a chicken lying on the ground while she is breathing heavily, and several other chickens are eating her. They pull out her intestines and eat her alive. There are chickens that have plucked feathers from each other, all over their bodies, and bones on a chicken with large, dirty wounds. In Norway, Nationen mentioned the case first. Left the day before the revelations Already the day before SVT’s “Uppdrag Granskning” has published the documentary, the news came that the managing director of the company is resigning. According to VG, the recordings were only made at one of the company’s facilities in Sweden. SVT refers to inspection reports that the same problems have been detected at several of the group’s facilities. Here you can see the entire report from SVT. Aviagen SweChick responded to this in an email to the Swedish TV channel: “We see that our company Aviagen SweChick has failed to maintain our high standards. We would like to apologize for this and try to do our utmost to resolve all deficiencies quickly and in full.”
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