Last Chance for Animals Reveals New Investigation: The Largest Rabbit Slaughterhouse in the US Exposed
May 5, 2015 rabbitcruelty.com
LCA announces a groundbreaking investigation revealing extreme brutality at the largest rabbit slaughterhouse in the United States: The Pel-Freez processing plant in Rogers, Arkansas. Until now, the cruelty of the rabbit meat industry has been kept hidden from the public – but with the truth finally revealed, it's time to end the suffering.
Despite using the "humanely raised" label, Pel-Freez tortures rabbits mercilessly until their dying breath. This is what our investigator caught on tape:
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A worker called the "killer" strikes the rabbits’ foreheads with the back edge of a knife to knock them unconscious. This often does not work.
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Next, the killer breaks the rabbits’ legs (the bone often visibly protrudes from the skin), and hangs them upside-down from a hook.
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The killer then beheads the rabbits. This is not always swift – when the blade grows dull, it takes time to saw from the back of the neck to the front.
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Still-conscious rabbits scream loudly throughout the entire process, sometimes until the knife slices through their vocal cords. Rabbits are normally silent animals because in the wild, sound draws predators. But extreme situations like this make them cry out in pain.
This is animal cruelty, plain and simple; but prosecutors fail to see it that way. LCA has submitted a criminal complaint to the Benton County Prosecutors Office detailing 323 instances where conscious rabbits endured intentional infliction of major physical trauma. Still, they refuse to press charges.
That's why it's crucial that you sign the petition right now to have criminal charges pressed against Pel-Freez, so that no more rabbits are forced to endure this suffering. With your help, we will keep the pressure on Benton County prosecutors to bring justice to Pel-Freez, and fight to change the barbaric policies that allow such cruelty to rabbits.
A video of LCA's findings is at RabbitCruelty.com
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