A Sacramento-based animal welfare group is suing Foster Farms, one the state’s largest poultry producers, claiming it is violating California animal cruelty laws.
Legal Impact for Chickens filed its complaint in May in Fresno County Superior Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the company and its poultry ranches in Fresno, Merced and Stanislaus counties.
Allegations include dead and rotting birds strewn throughout barns, chickens being routinely crushed or trapped by equipment, and dozens of incidents of employees throwing, dropping or hitting chickens…