margaret grace

Review of Mt Barker Chicken

I have supported Mount Barker Chicken for a long t...

I have supported Mount Barker Chicken for a long time, with the belief they are ethical and humane. I recently lost a good and apparently very strong tooth as a result of eating a Mt Barker Chicken sausage with a bone it it. I have since learned these people have been outed for cruel and inhumane practices with diseased chickens, cannibalism and also illegal workers. I lost a perfectly good tooth to a seemingly corrupt and unethical money spinning organisation... hard to take.
I had a visit on the past weekend from a young girl who was an illegal worker on a supposed "free range" chicken farm and she advised me, these farms receive notification from authorities when there is to be an inspection. This is when they free there chickens. Prior to this they are packed so tight into cages, they peck each other to death, hence the cannibalism!! And they employ illegal workers as the illegal workers are unlikely to advise authorities due to being "illegal" workers. Sickening!!!