PETA undercover for Thanksgiving

[flvegan]

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.

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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.

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation

NOTE: Nothing graphic at the above link. There's a video, but you have to launch it yourself after getting to the page.

[RebelOne]

1. This has been getting a lot of news coverage.

There was even a bit about it this morning on WPBS, the local radio station here in the Atlanta area.