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James Fontanetta, former senior vice president of Wit capital is urging major corporations to end their cruel practices against animals.
“Most people eat a hamburger or chicken sandwich blindly without thinking of where it came from. Chicken and Beef are neatly packaged in our grocery stores or served in to go buckets with nice colorful logos on them. In some cases, they come in kids’ meals with toys and games on the bags, but the reality is that they come from the abuse and torture of animals,” believes James Fontanetta. One of the groups that James Fontanetta supports recently conducted an undercover investigation of food giant Tyson Foods, the main supplier of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

James Fontanetta informs, PETA unveiled video footage from an undercover investigation of two slaughterhouses owned by Tyson in Cumming, Georgia, and Union City, Tennessee. James Fontanetta The investigation documented that workers violently threw birds against shackles, sometimes from 4 feet to 6 feet away from the conveyor belt; stabbed birds in the neck with knives; and hit birds with their fists. The investigator also saw workers use excessive speed and force when shackling birds, break the ankles of chickens shackled incorrectly, and play a “game” in which they stacked up to six chickens in one shackle when the line temporarily stopped. The investigator also videotaped a supervisor who approved of workers’ ripping the heads off live birds if they became stuck in the shackles. In addition to this horrifying cruelty, adds James Fontanetta, workers were even caught urinating on the conveyer belt that was used to move chickens.
James Fontanetta gives another horrific example, investigators unveiled video footage from an undercover investigation of a North Carolina factory farm that supplies pigs to Smithfield Foods, the largest pig-flesh company in the world. The investigation exposed that workers cut off piglets’ tails and pulled out piglets’ testicles-all without any pain relief-and dragged injured pigs by their sensitive ears and snouts as the animals screamed in pain and terror. The investigator also videotaped a farm supervisor, who talked openly about how he violently beat pigs with metal gate rods.
Not even Bambi is safe. On August 26, 2007, a PETA investigator filmed the slaughter of deer at Musicon, Inc., a deer farm and venison sales company in Goshen, New York, states James Fontanetta.
James Fontanetta explains, deer are high-strung, extremely nervous herd animals, so any handling-especially by humans in a loud, strange indoor environment-is frightening to them. Our investigator documented that a worker at Musicon was kneeling on frightened deer’s backs in order to restrain the animals and then yanking their heads back by their ears and antlers to expose their throats-which were then slit while the deer were still conscious. Some deer also had a restraint door slammed on their heads as they were bleeding to death. In one instance, a deer was grabbed by the hole cut in her neck and yanked from the restraint pen while still conscious.
“You can stop this by letting companies know that you are aware of their cruel practices and will not stand for it. Write letters to these companies, emails and call them. Write your Congressman and representatives asking that they protect animals. If all of us make a lot of noise about this, they will listen. Animals can’t speak for themselves, so we have to speak for them”, said James Fontanetta.