Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers – By Megan Cerullo (Moneywatch) / April 28, 2022
Animal rights activists are up in arms over reports that a chicken farm in Iowa killed more than five million birds, after detecting a case of avian influenza, in what activists say was a gruesome culling method. The factory farm later dismissed the more than 200 workers it had tasked with slaughtering the hens, according to a report from The Guardian.
Rembrandt Farms, where the mass slaughter took place in March, is owned by billionaire Glen Taylor, one of the wealthiest Iowans, and an owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Last month, protesters from Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights advocacy group, stormed the court at home games wearing T-shirts reading, “Glen Taylor Roasts Animals Alive.”
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship in March announced that it had confirmed a case of avian influenza in “a flock of commercial layer chickens” in Buena Vista County, where Rembrandt Farms is located.
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