Compassion Over Killing’s 'Cal-Cruz Hatcheries' footage goes public.

Video file air date: Jun 03, 2010. SANTA CRUZ,California. A vegan activist group says a Santa Cruz hatchery is breaking the law and they say that they have the video to prove it. The group called Compassion Over Killing says that they sent in an undercover camera to get the video and it shows graphic images of baby birds being tossed aside by workers. Cal-Cruz Hatcheries has been in the Live Oak neighborhood for nearly 60 years and in all that time they have only had one complaint of animal cruelty and that was in February of 2009. The activist group says that the follow up investigation by the Santa Cruz Animal Services, which is located across the street from the hatchery, cooberated their evidence. Animal Services would not comment on the undercover video but they did say that they did seize some of the the birds from the hatchery because they were left in incubators too long. The video showed decapitated and mangled hatchlings caught in machinery, sick and gravely injured ducklings left to suffer for hours, one duckling drowning in a bucket of liquid waste, unwanted hatchlings treated like trash, and baby birds being tossed into buckets up to six feet across a room. According to Compassion Over Killing, the Santa Cruz District Attorney’s office held the case for several months before declining to prosecute the hatchery for violations of state animal protection laws. "If kittens or puppies were treated this way, animal cruelty charges would have been brought in this ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 2m 13s Date Found: Wed, Jun 09 2010 7:50 PM Category: News Date Produced: Wed, Jun 09 2010 2:36 AM View Count: 0