Butterball's House of Horrors: cruelty to turkeys

UPDATE: USDA has confirmed PETA's findings of intentional abuse. However, no punitive action is likely, as birds (along with rabbits) are exempt from federal animal welfare laws.

Undercover investigation by PETA of sadistic abuse and torture of turkeys by Butterball (ConAgra Foods). This appears to be common in poultry factory farms. www.butterballcruelty.com www.kfccruelty.com

Ask your Congressperson to include birds and rabbits in the Humane Animal Slaughter Act, to help prevent such abuses from occurring.

Contact Butterball to complain. Forward to your friends and family!

All vertebrates experience pain, fear and suffering, and have natural desires to play, forage for food, show affection, nest, nurture their young, etc. that can't be expressed in a factory.

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[kendalismyname]

Some of the comments I'm seeing really make me lose faith in humanity... Some of you have lost all connection to the earth, to life, to God... you have no sympathy, compassion, regard for your own health. I'm sorry. People may have been eating meat for centuries, but never was it supposed to be like this.

[Nbrito06]

Animals were not put on earth for us to abuse. Anyone who finds the need to hurt anything weaker then him will surely harm your child and their own family. Those people their have murderous mind sets its evident. No excuse for such brutality. Reason y our,race will never ever progress.

[Michael Green]

Many people think of turkeys as little more than holiday centerpieces, but turkeys are social, playful birds who enjoy the company of others. Turkeys have been genetically modified to gain weight rapidly because fatter turkeys mean fatter wallets for farmers. When not forced to live on filthy factory farms, turkeys spend their days caring for their young, building nests, foraging for food, taking dust baths, preening themselves, and roosting high in trees.

[Oliver Clotheshoff]

All of her clothes off

[Oliver Clotheshoff]

Fuk da police

[carolelyons41]

Why does butterball hire such sadistic idiots? I will never buy a turkey from them again. Doesnt anyone at this place find this treatment of those poor birds disgusting? Why would anyone want to work there-so much agony for those poor birds......

[hreshtag]

You're right, I'm sure not everyone at the factory is abusing the turkeys. More people are probably not doing it than doing it. Also, Youtube comments do nothing/very little. However, they may inspire someone to do something good. For me, the abuse on the video is not just what makes me want to eat vegetarian, it's actually more how the turkeys are in cages. To me, THAT is the more widespread abuse.

[LGBTcompassionDotOrg]

@blazindankss - another undercover investigation of Butterball was just released by Mercy for Animals, showing that the same cruelties are continuing. There are many, many undercover investigations of industrialized other farms showing that these patterns of abuse are pretty standard everywhere.

[merlendechien]

@Zumbagirl517 they are already sick and injured when taken out of the cage. And they can not fly. They can jump and lift a little but they are not wild turkeys

[merlendechien]

@blazindankss you are an idiot. Do all animals do this? And do hogs do it for fun or to protect themselves? Animals do not purposefully torture. That is a human concept. And I have been in the wild and around animals all my life. So I think I would know better than you. Get your facts straight.

[hreshtag]

Think you're missing my point. :/ There's no need to further torture animals. We're already eating them, might as well treat them with respect. There's really no reason not to.

[G Top]

How disgusting that someone would be putting their finger inside a turkeys Vajayjay!! I am completely GROSSED OUT!! How many more companies out there have disgusting people work for them????