Pilgrim’s Pride investigating alleged chicken abuse

GREELEY – Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. (Nasdaq: PPC) said Monday that it has launched an investigation into a supplier of its chickens that allegedly mistreated the birds by stuffing them in buckets and burying them alive.

A video filmed in January and February this year by an undercover investigator for animal rights activist group Compassion Over Killing shows workers of Prince Poultry of North Carolina filling an underground facility with live chickens.

The live chickens had been stuffed into buckets with apparently dead chickens. A worker is shown removing them from the buckets and crowding them into an outdoor pit, where Compassion Over…