McDonald’s Cruelty: The Rotten Truth About Egg McMuffins

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation into a McDonald’s egg supplier exposes the fast-food giant’s secret ingredient: shocking cruelty to animals. Hidden-camera footage taken at Sparboe Egg Farm facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado reveals: * Hens crammed into filthy wire cages with less space for each bird than a standard-sized sheet of paper to live her entire miserable life, unable to fully stretch her wings or engage in most other natural behaviors * Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks without any painkillers and callously throwing them into cages, some missing the cage doors and hitting the floor * Rotted hens, decomposed beyond recognition as birds, left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption * A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device - violence described as “torture“ by another worker * Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire - ot