SALISBURY, MD—Emphasizing that it was an integral a part of the corporate’s mission to boost humanely sourced meat, poultry processing big Perdue Farms introduced a brand new initiative Tuesday to even the taking part in discipline by giving weapons to chickens. “At Perdue, we at all times attempt to make sure animals are handled with dignity and respect, and in the present day we increase upon that dedication by handing every chicken a loaded pistol and permitting them a good probability to flee,” stated Perdue spokesperson Jamie Walton, describing a brand new coverage underneath which every hen can be issued a weapon with a single spherical within the chamber and given a possibility to kill their captor with a well-placed bullet earlier than they could possibly be taken to slaughter. “They need to get one clear shot. That’s simply good sportsmanship. So to any extent further, each hen in our Perdue amenities can have free and easy accessibility to firearms. We might lose some employees to gunshot wounds, however everybody concerned—human or fowl—can have a possibility to defend themselves. It’s solely proper.” At press time, sources confirmed a shift within the stability of energy at a number of Perdue processing vegetation had resulted in 1000’s of workers being slaughter with assembly-line effectivity.
