Having turkey for Thanksgiving dinner?
source: http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation
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More than 72 million of the nearly 270 million turkeys killed for food every year in the U.S. are slaughtered for holiday meals. This year, just prior to the flesh-focused Thanksgiving holiday, PETA conducted an undercover investigation lasting more than two months at the factory farms of Aviagen Turkeys, Inc., the self-proclaimed "world's leading poultry breeding company."
While working at a series of Aviagen factory farms in West Virginia, PETA's investigator documented that workers tortured, mutilated, and maliciously killed turkeys. The following are just a few of the documented offenses:
* Employees stomped on turkeys' heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys' heads against metal scaffolding.
* Men shoved feces and feed into turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat.
* A supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.
* One man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads.
To learn more, please read the investigator's log notes and experts' statements, view our photo gallery, and visit our blog.
PETA's investigator repeatedly brought abuses to a supervisor's attention. The supervisor responded, "Every once in a while, everybody gets agitated and has to kill a bird." PETA also brought the abuse to the attention of Aviagen, and although the company made assurances and instituted some new rules, the cruelty did not stop.
PETA's investigator also saw disgusting, cramped conditions. The rotting remains of about 70 hens were left amid live birds—who had to climb over the dead—for more than a day. A supervisor urinated in turkey pens, and workers spat tobacco in the pens as well. The suffering typically found on factory farms was also routine in Aviagen's sheds: Hens' beaks were cut with pliers, massive birds collapsed and died of exhaustion or heart attacks, and turkeys were thrown into transport cages.
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numinant
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the ritual turkey sacrifice on thanksgiving taints the whole goddamn holiday for me (indigenous genocide and a history of lies doesn't help matters either).
and what's with literally stuffing their dead carcasses with stuffing thru the anal cavity, like once-living pinatas, as if they don't only grow flesh for our benefit but produce bountiful nutritious fecal movements as well.
dread.
- 3 years ago
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numinant
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arcticspirit
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It sounds like the company should be investigated and the workers that committed these acts against the animals should be tried in a criminal court for each act of animal cruelty.
Other than that, it's sad to have this here when we have to cook a bloomin turkey for our families. Now I'm gonna be all depressed and shit.
Thanks.
- 3 years ago
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arcticspirit
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numinant
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arcticspirit:
who's forcing you to cook a turkey?
by the way, i don't believe animal abuse in factor farms is a criminal act. my understanding is that any act that is routine in the industry is legal by definition, and the industry is rife such abuse.
- 3 years ago
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numinant
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numinant
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arcticspirit:
there may be, but there isn't much precedent in terms of prosecution that i'm aware of. the way it seems to me, something is only illegal in the context of factory farms if it's made explicitly illegal. for example, if a state passes regulations regarding the cage size of a chicken, that has to be obeyed. but there aren't any specific laws in the books to prohibit, for example, trampling chickens to death.
- 3 years ago
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numinant
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sushikillakid
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nope...im
having TAMALES
for thanksgivin XP - 3 years ago
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sushikillakid
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marboss
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sushikillakid:
haha, I'm having fish, rice & beans! (and mashed potatoes
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marboss
