On the eve of Tyson’s annual shareholder meeting, an eye-opening letter from a Compassion Over Killing investigator has been printed in Tyson’s hometown paper, revealing a hidden, gruesome reality that birds face on Tyson-contracted farms. Help drive home the message to Tyson’s leadership that it’s time for change: Read and share our blog TODAY: http://bit.ly/tysonletter! Appearing in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning, the letter is authored by a Compassion Over Killing undercover investigator who witnessed violent abuse and systemic suffering inside a Tyson-contracted farm. “Alex” explains, “Tomorrow in Springdale, Tyson Foods’ executives will stand before shareholders to tout the company’s progress on its vision to ‘shape the future of food.’ However, what their narrative will fail to mention is that far from Tyson’s headquarters in Arkansas is a hidden nightmare you’d have to see to believe.” “Alex” not only documented birds being run over and crushed to death by forklifts, live birds violently kicked and thrown, and even tiny chicks impaled with a metal nail on the end of a pipe—but also immense suffering due to the genetic manipulation of birds for unnatural rapid growth. At Tyson, two-month-old baby birds, bred for morbid obesity, were often crippled under the weight of their own bodies. But as the letter points out, Tyson—which relies on a revolving pool of under-paid laborers and the deaths of over a billion birds every year to report favorable earnings to investors—has refused to address the root of this suffering: breeding birds for rapid growth. Shine a bright light on Tyson’s hidden torture by sharing our investigator’s letter TODAY on Twitter (https://ctt.ec/0c3d8) and Facebook (http://bit.ly/2Enve0l)! Thank you for helping us create meaningful change for chickens!