Pamela Anderson Slams Supplier To PF Chang's And Other Restaurants In Video Exposing Animal Cruelty

LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A foodservice supplier to PF Chang's, Perkins, Red Robin, Culver's, The Melting Pot, and other national restaurant chains is in hot water over new hidden-camera video showing birds having their wings and legs broken, being painfully shocked with electricity, having their throats sliced open while still conscious, and even being scalded alive.

The undercover video, secretly recorded by an investigator with Mercy For Animals and narrated by actress Pamela Anderson, was taken at a Wayne Farms slaughterhouse in North Carolina. Wayne Farms is a major poultry supplier to Gordon Food Service, the largest private foodservice distributor in the country.

To view Pamela Anderson's new video, visit www.GoryFoodService.com.

A longtime animal rights activist, Pamela Anderson is calling on Gordon Food Service to implement meaningful animal welfare requirements for all of its poultry suppliers, including on-farm improvements to reduce the number of birds who arrive sick and injured at the slaughterhouse and switching to less cruel killing systems that eliminate the horrific suffering caused by dumping, shackling, shocking, and slaughtering conscious animals.

In addition to protecting animals from malicious cruelty and violence on factory farms, Mercy For Animals and Pamela Anderson's proposed animal welfare improvements would prevent animals from being scalded alive in hot water tanks at the slaughterhouse. Shockingly, the USDA estimates that as many as 1 million birds are scalded alive every year in this country. And despite the fact that chickens make up more than 95 percent of the animals killed for food each year in the U.S., they are excluded from the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. This means that every year billions of birds are slaughtered in ways that would be illegal if the victims were cows or pigs. 

"Gordon Food Service suppliers' foul treatment of chickens makes me sick to my stomach," said Anderson. "If Gordon Food Service executives tortured even one dog or cat the way the company's suppliers do millions of chickens, they would be thrown in jail."

"Chickens are literally tortured to death before ending up in restaurants supplied by Gordon Food Service. They are dumped, shackled, shocked, cut open, and often scalded alive while still conscious and able to feel pain. This is sickening abuse no company with morals should support," said MFA's president, Nathan Runkle. "Gordon Food Service has not only the power, but also the ethical responsibility, to end the worst forms of cruelty to animals in its supply chain."

SOURCE Mercy For Animals