Hidden-camera footage taken at Sparboe facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado reveals:
- Hens crammed into filthy wire cages with less space for each bird than a standard-sized sheet of paper to live her entire miserable life, unable to fully stretch her wings or engage in most other natural behaviors
- Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks without any painkillers and callously throwing them into cages, some missing the cage doors and hitting the floor
- Workers grabbing hens by their throats and ramming them into battery cages
- Rotted hens, decomposed beyond recognition as birds, left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption
- A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device - violence described as "torture" by another worker
- A worker shoving a bird into the pocket of another employee without any regard for the animal's fear and suffering
- Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire - others suffering from open wounds and torn beaks
- Live chicks thrown into plastic bags to be suffocated
