NSPCA obtains final interdict against Daybreak Foods

THE National Council of SPCA's (NSPCA) focus will now be on ensuring that Daybreak Foods complies with the final court interdict compelling the company to immediately cease all inhumane culling practices “including but not limited to the inhumane ringing of the breeder birds’ necks”.

- NICOLA DANIELS

The animal welfare organisation secured a final interdict against the company on Friday following reports that Daybreak's financial difficulties led to thousands of birds being inhumanly culled (by wringing their necks) and the fact that the chickens were left without any food, and/or left without specific food as needed.

Attached to the NSPCA's founding affidavit were photographs and video footage of the mistreatment of the chickens. The photos displayed chickens with their intestines exposed, severely underfed chickens and heaps of dead chickens.

However Daybreak denied any inhumane treatment of chickens occurred, arguing that the injuries were probably due to the chickens pecking at each other's wounds, which may have been caused by the chickens' spurs, which is a natural reaction of the chicken.

According to Daybreak, the company was in a state of disrepair due to financial mismanagement.