Mummified Hens Discovered at Dunkin' Donuts Supplier

A Washington, D.C.-based animal-rights organization has released an undercover video of a facility that supplies eggs to Dunkin' Donuts.

The footage, shot by an investigator for Compassion Over Killing in August, shows hens who have been dead for so long in their cages that they've become mummified.

In the video a worker tells the investigator that mummified corpses aren't rare.

"There are some that are almost decomposed. Like a lot! Those are the ones that are flat on. Mummies."

Ned Buyukmihci, emeritus professor of veterinary medicine at the University of California, Davis, viewed the footage and agreed.

Many of these [birds] had been long dead as evidenced by their mummified state and sometimes being in pieces. This would take weeks to develop.

Minnesota-based Michael Foods follows the industry standard by housing its hens in battery cages so small that the birds can hardly move and cannot spread their wings. As we've seen with similar investigations, hens become trapped in the wire cages and cannot reach food or water. When they finally die, their cagemates step on their rotting corpses.

Compassion Over Killing has urged Dunkin' Donuts to produce vegan donuts. Currently all of the company's donuts are made from eggs, the result of the pain and suffering of hens.

Dunkin' Donuts has refused to sit down with COK representatives. Officials instead insisted that its egg suppliers "support our corporate guidelines related to animal welfare and meet or exceed the United Egg Producers guidelines."

The solution to this horror is simple: Go vegan.

Don't support industries whose practices conflict with your sense of decency.

(Image and video courtesy of Compassion Over Killing.)