Video shot by hatchery employee includes scenes of chicks gasping for air as they slowly suffocate in plastic bags. While employed at a North Carolina turkey hatchery that now supplies Butterball, ...
Video shot by hatchery employee includes scenes of chicks gasping for air as they slowly suffocate in plastic bags. While employed at a North Carolina turkey hatchery that now supplies Butterball, a COK investigator documented the conditions forced upon newly-hatched chicks.
As the investigation video shows, from the moment they're hatched, these turkeys are submerged into a world of misery. Dumped out of metal trays and jostled onto conveyor belts after being mechanically separated from cracked egg shells, the newly-hatched turkeys are tossed around like inanimate objects -- they are sorted, sexed, de-beaked, de-toed, and in some cases de-snooded before they are packed up and shipped off to a "grow out" confinement facility.
The video further reveals that not all chicks survive this harsh process. Countless chicks become mangled from the machinery, suffocated in plastic bags, or deemed "surplus" and dumped (along with injured chicks) into the same disposal system as the discarded egg shells they were separated from hours earlier.
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Man that is jus sick, i dont see any need for those poor defencless creatures to be handled in such a rough way, it makes me so angry and upset :@:@:@:@
This is not how this one place treats these poor baby birds....ALL of these kinds of companies do this. I would chew off my own hand before I could ever work in a place like that, throwing those living creatures around like they were beanbags. And what kind of sicko invented those awful machines? Even people who aren't vegetarians don't want animals treated cruelly. As hard as it is to watch, these videos show people what really goes on, and many will go vege, or at least cut down.
what has the human race done, we deserve whatever comes our way! this is terrible!!! people should be ashamed, i understand people eat meat, but it has to be done humanely, this is just wrong!!!
this video makes me sad. i am not a vegetarian or vegan, but it's just blunt inhumane treatment and a disregard for life. people like me should buy their meats from a known local humane farmer. don't buy brands from the store. not only will it help your local economy, but it'll bring consumer demand down (which will aide in stopping companies like this).
Absolutely disgusting, how inhumane this is, very hard to watch. Places like this need to be shut down. Why do they have to be killed in horrible ways like this, why can't they be sent off to a farm and at least be given a chance to live, that would be more humane.
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Even people who aren't vegetarians don't want animals treated cruelly. As hard as it is to watch, these videos show people what really goes on, and many will go vege, or at least cut down.