The Humane Society of the United States secretly recorded a Georgia poultry farmer hitting a chicken with a metal rod.
Now, the owner of Plainview Farm in Hull is expected to lose his contract with Pilgrim’s Pride, a major chicken producer.
A HSUS spokesman said the investigation involved various facilities of Pilgrim's Pride, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
A HSUS representative made the video while at the farm, during a covert operation.
Another video that has surfaced shows chickens being “violently shackled” in a Pilgrim’s Pride slaughterhouse in Texas, officials said.
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