Monday 20 December 2010

400,000 Baby Chicks Killed by Bankrupt Poultry Farm

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dumping baby chicks photo

Poultry workers reportedly wept as they carried out their grim task -- overseeing the death of about 400 thousand newborn chicks by drowning them in water or simply dumping them in rusty barrels outside where they would succumb to the freezing winter air. Around 600,000 more birds, housed at Russia's Krasnaya Polyana poultry farm have died of malnutrition, and the lives of 3 million others await a similar fate. A $190,000 tax debt, says the farm, has forced them to declare bankruptcy, leading to this killing of chickens on a horrific scale.

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