Two shareholders are represented by Legal Impact for Chickens, and they have filed a lawsuit against the company.
Chickens are bred too big to be able to survive on their own.
According to the company, it maintains ethical and humane processes.
The Nebraska Examiner reported that a lawsuit was pending over the treatment of chickens that are sold in stores as $4.99 chickens. The fiduciary duty to shareholders is being violated by the company.
The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of King County in the state of Washington. According to the lawsuit viewed by Insider, this is an important part of the company's poultry production strategy and business model.
The company did not respond to the request for comment. The company told Insider that it was committed to maintaining the highest standards of animal welfare, humane processes and ethical conduct in the supply chain.
There is a new lawsuit about chicken processing. In order to keep costs low, Costco opened a $450 million facility in Nebraska that processes 2 million chickens a week, with plans to eventually supply 50% of the chain's total chickens.
Two Costco shareholders brought a suit against the company, saying that they breed chickens too large to stand up, and the disabled birds die from hunger, thirst, injury, and illness. Reports of abuse were ignored by the executives of the company.
Alene Anello, president of Legal Impact for Chickens, said in a statement that the warehouse club represents a grim existence for animals in Nebraska who are warehoused in inescapable misery.
The treatment of birds has been criticized before. Chickens struggling to walk under their own unnatural weight, bodies burned bare from ammonia-laden litter, dead days-old chick, and piles of rotting birds were some of the horrible conditions described by an animal rights group.
tisserie chickens are a popular item at the store. The company sold 106 million in the year 2021, and is committed to keeping them at a low price. Costs of labor and production have gone up, but the price has not. Chickens are used as a strategy to draw customers into stores where they will hopefully buy other products with higher margins.
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