Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 6/30/15


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the legality of poultry slaughter methods in California, the organization announced on its website.

The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, takes aim at electric stunning, saying it violates California’s Humane Slaughter Law, which requires that animals be rendered insensible to pain before being cut and bled, as well as the California Penal Code, which prohibits torturing, maiming, and cruelly killing any animal.

PETA wants the court to ban electrical stunning as a method for stunning birds before slaughter.

National Chicken Council officials said they are aware of the lawsuit but have yet to read and review the complaint.

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