When consumers think of the Butterball brand, they think turkey. But on Thursday, unappetizing images of poultry in peril emerged that might cause many Butterball buyers to ponder what really went on before their holiday turkey dinners reached their plates.
Animal rights group Mercy for Animals went undercover andcaught workers at a North Carolina Butterball-affiliated turkey facility on video abusing the birds. The footage reveals that workers stomped, kicked, threw, and dragged the animals.
If that’s not enough to cause you to lose your lunch, some turkeys had untreated wounds and injuries such as open sores, infections, rotting eyes,
and broken bones.
Mercy for Animals presented the footage and filed a formal legal complaint with local law enforcement, resulting in a warrant and raid on the facility Thursday morning.
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Comments
It’s a disgrace. If you are going to (eventually) kill an animal then you should at least treat it humanely.
But I do sympathize with the employees. Imagine if your jobs was to kill hundreds or thousands of harmless animals every day.
#Do you Want to say something?