This article and the above video include graphic images\u00a0some readers may find disturbing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 1 Nov 2017 – <\/em>An Oakland slaughterhouse, Saba Live Poultry, was occupied last weekend\u00a0by more than 200 people, protesting the atrocious conditions in which animals are kept before being slaughtered. Oakland police arrested 23 people and charged them with trespassing, for entering the facility, filming abuses, and removing at least three animals for rescue.<\/p>\n Activists described seeing\u00a0intense suffering, abuse, and cruelty.\u00a0Video images \u2014 from the\u00a0short film above produced by The Intercept \u2014 confirm their accounts. Live bunnies were standing atop the rotting carcasses of other rabbits. Chickens were stuffed into cages so tiny that they were prevented from breathing. Still-living\u00a0quails and chicks\u00a0had been thrown into trash cans along with dead ones. And many animals, who had not been given food or water for days, were cannibalizing\u00a0one another in cages in a desperate, instinctive attempt to survive.<\/p>\n One of the activists, Priya Sawhney of Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, said that walking onto the kill floor was\u00a0\u201cone of the most disturbing things I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. We saw\u00a0bodies of animals\u00a0on the floor, bloodied heads of chicken, animal feet, blood everywhere.\u201d She added, \u201cIn one of the trash cans I looked in, there were dead quail\u00a0along with quails still alive, one of which I picked up to rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n
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