 This spokesperson claimed the activist increased the risk of spreading bird flu. Uh, okay, so you creating these massive factory farms full of birds is not increasing the risk of bird flu, but activists walking in there, two or three activists walking in there with a camera, is increasing the risk of spreading bird flu. Hello everyone, welcome to another video. Now I'm just feeling pretty sick after I've just seen this article in The Independent. Now everyone knows by now if you haven't seen the video of me and Tinsel who rescued Tinsel from a free range farm, she was, her fate was to be slaughtered for someone's Christmas dinner and I've really connected with turkeys and I always have loved turkeys. I knew they were a lot more cuddly than other birds, they're a lot more social than say chickens, but I still, you know, care for chickens a lot. It's just turkey is something about them I felt was kind of special as well like recently there has been this article in The Independent and what has happened is Viva, a vegan campaigning organization who exposed recently the flat house farm to, I did a video on that and they've recently got some of their investigations published in The Independent which we're gonna, we're gonna read through here. But yeah, with, with the Christmas season coming up, a lot of turkeys are being bred into existence here in the UK specifically for Christmas. So, you know, with Christmas time comes a lot more turkey exploitation and of course animal rights investigators exposing these places for the hell holes they really are. So turkeys kicked hundreds of times and left wounded at farms supplying Sainsbury's and Asda. Wow. So it says undercover activists at a farm supplying Sainsbury's and Asda have said they saw workers kicking turkeys more than 200 times in shocking scenes of suffering and cruelty. A worker is to be suspended and an official investigation has been launched after footage showed what campaign has called a total disregard for animal welfare. Birds at the red tractor endorsed intensive farm were also suffering painful open wounds and acute pecking injuries video from the investigation shows. So right now we're focusing on turkeys because a lot of turkeys are killed this time of the year in the UK but there's many other species of animals who are tortured and killed around this time of year as well and all other times of the year too. But let's just watch this investigation footage from Viva. So these are three different farms here and they supply some of the biggest names in the supermarket. So Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrison's, what have we got here? Waitrose and Okado. Like these are some of the biggest supermarkets in the UK. So let's just let you know, let's just have a look here. Like the UK is like they pride themselves high animal welfare the highest animal welfare in the world. I've heard it so many times. The UK actually has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world. That is nonsense. There's been so many exports, there's been so many exposes. Let's actually look at what a red tractor factory farm looks like. Like look how many of them there are in there, like they're just jammed in there. What are they supposed to do jammed in these sheds like that? They can't even spread their wings in there. Okay so the next scene investigators filmed workers kicking the turkeys as they emptied the sheds for slaughter. Let's have a look here. Look at this. It was booting the birds like objects. How sickening. Look at them. Look at this guy. Just callous disregard for these turkeys. They don't care about them. They're just whatever. Get in the truck. Go get your head chopped off. So what you see is these turkeys here fighting. They just go mad in here. You don't understand. They're going mad. They're going crazy trapped in this factory farm and like because there's so many of them they just can't recognize each other in these huge farms filled with different birds. There's too many of them. So they just go mad. They're pecking each other. Disgusting. Pool all over the floor. So they're just pecking each other like to death. Like look at this one here. This is horrible. This scene here. Leaving birds with painful lacerations. Their skin plucked raw and the wounds left to fester. Like and you don't understand when you get a wound and there's just feces everywhere the wound is going to be infected. Look at this poor baby left to suffer and die. On a red tractor approved farm like come on. Does that look like Christmas to you? Look at that. Does that look like Christmas to you? Imagine paying for a bird to go through that just so you can have a Christmas dinner. Like what an insane cruel thing to do. Like look I know a lot of people don't actually know this happens. Like this stuff happens. Like amazing orcs like Viva have to expose places like this. You know now that you do know what are you going to do about it? Like that's what I want to know. Like because down below we have like a Christmas download pack where you can have a vegan Christmas easily like you know it's just horrible. Like I think in the back of everyone's minds people know that most of the meat that they eat comes from factory farms I mean but you know places like Red Tractor and that do do a pretty good job at perpetuating propaganda to the masses but you know this kind of dispels these myths doesn't it? Poor baby. Like all I can think of is Tinsel when I see these poor babies like Tinsel is the most amazing bird and I connected with her on such a deep level once she spent like multiple days in a row living with a turkey you just really see how you know intelligent and intricate they are and their little different vocalizations but these birds here this is horrible what they're putting it the suffering they're putting them through it's just just I couldn't imagine it oh my god this bird has a bone fracture that is protruding through their skin injured birds are brutally shot in the head their lifeless bodies are dumped like trash so they're actually bred double the size now so look at them they're too they're too big for their their legs to hold it's just horrible well that's absolutely horrible I'm going to continue reading the article to see what else they found but as you can see like just from those images there that's absolutely horrible like what they've uncovered there so animal welfare charity Viva carried out a secret probe from late last month until earlier this year at three farms the group said its investigators found at all three severely overcrowded sheds creating stress aggression and pecking of others birds suffering with acute injuries from being pecked high levels of ammonia on the ground causing agonizing hawk burns and breathing and walking problems investigators said the footage showed birds being kicked more than 218 times while being herded wow a virus is online that it looks after the health and welfare and safety of its staff its consumers and the animals yet you might I don't you might look after your staff and consumers but not the animals I don't know about the consumers either because these places are breeding grounds for diseases so you don't really care about the consumers all the staff all the animals if you think about it the animal welfare group said its hidden cameras revealed birds in barren windowless shed subjected for more than three months to continuous artificial lighting with no darkness no darkness imagine that imagine how crazy you'd go if you couldn't sleep properly so cameras filmed for three days straight and the only time the lights were turned off was during the catching process to keep them calm during stressful loading a Viva spokesperson said wow so they only turned the lights off to load them that's just that's horrible that's just horrible so they also claimed to work and made just one welfare check a day in breach of red tractors rules which state inspection should be carried out at least twice daily well you know what they breach the rules but even if they weren't doing inspections twice daily it's still horrible and I think you know Viva know that we I think Viva just want people to go vegan and stop the animal exploitation when you are mass breeding animals for consumption there's always going to be welfare problems so you can't just mass breed thousands and thousands of turkeys and expect them to get the proper care you just it's not going to happen they have to cut their beaks off you know they have to destroy defective chicks they have to destroy birds who have been injured so they're bulk gunning birds in the head they're making them grow double the size so they can't you know support their own weight and at the end of the day even if the welfare was spot on amazing it's like a bird sanctuary where they're all getting appropriate care taking them to the slaughterhouse is the injustice I mean it's horrible exploitation just how much more cruel can you get than cutting an animal's head off it's obviously wrong if you're cutting an animal's head off and eating their body I mean that that should be a breach of welfare in itself so it says these conditions are in contradiction to Avara foods animal welfare policy which claims our birds would rather peck at the drinkers feeders or other pecking objects than each other well that's nonsense because they're pecking the hell out of each other in these sheds see like who you're gonna listen to you gotta listen to the people who are campaigning for animals who have the animals best interest in heart or are you going to listen to the person who's trying to sell you a product a company who is making money off the backs of animals and is trying to sell you their chopped up body parts and tell you what you want to hear I want to hear that you know the animals were treated nicely and you know in these amazing red tractor conditions before I ate their body so I feel good about myself no this is a reality okay and even if that were true it's still wrong to cut off turkey's heads to eat them like look at tinsel would you want to cut off her head and eat her I mean come on so and here we go here's Sainsbury's the Sainsbury's spokesman says we care deeply about the welfare of our animals and have been working closely with our suppliers and red tractor to urgently investigate this footage we know what Sainsbury's maybe drop all animal exploitation industries and just sell plant products I think that would be best for you because these things are going to keep coming up as long as there is animal exploitation there's going to be these horrific animal welfare breaches and you know footage coming out exposing you so what you should do is just drop all places that involve animal exploitation but you won't do that because you probably go out of business but sooner or later meets we're going to come obsolete it's a very dangerous way of producing food growing animals for food and as as the spokesperson said none of asda's own label Christmas turkeys have been sourced from these farms we do stock a small number of lines from branded suppliers who sources from one of the farms and we'll be picking up on them with them as we expect all suppliers to uphold comprehensive animal welfare standards so as that you're going to show us footage from slaughterhouses and farms where you do source your turkey from probably not will you you're going to show us the pig farms the chicken farms the egg farms yeah absolutely not okay so stop talking nonsense okay you don't follow these animals down the line and to the slaughterhouse and you don't even show the public uh all of that information you know you keep that secret you try very hard to keep that secret Morrison said it had not taken any turkeys from the farms oh you oh and Morrison's all right so you you hadn't okay Morrison's but where do you where do you get your turkey from show us this slaughterhouse show us you know those farms you know but you won't will you Tesco said the Avara farms were in its supply chain but had not sourced them for Christmas oh really Tesco okay so where did you source all your turkeys from for Christmas I'm sure they could be comprehensively exposed as well like this is just you know China brush off the any accountability or responsibility look all of these companies they need to keep pushing the vegan stuff and phase out all the animal products that's what they need to do oh this is just going stuff like this is just going to keep popping up a red track of spokesperson said protecting animal health and welfare is one of our top priorities and we take any allegations of our of breaches to our standards very seriously I do you red track to try to save face that's probably about it look I don't have any confidence in these animal welfare organizations who sell meat who who put their stamp of approval on a chopped up animals body they don't have the animals best interest at heart they're just money making machines trying to keep the status quo trying to keep animal exploitation in business as soon as we were made aware of the footage we launched an immediate investigation to substantiate the claims and to review the behavior scene well why does Viva have to expose this red tractor why are you exposing this you know I think we all know why because you're making money off the backs of animals as well and a virus spokesman said edited footage of this nature was captured to support the claims of the group promoting it and as such we'll always focus on a few isolated examples in an otherwise healthy flock oh wow really abara really abara so now like you're saying that the group has somehow doctored the footage in favor of their message but you know abara like should we listen to you who is trying to sell the chopped up bodies of the animals who obviously doesn't care about the animals do you otherwise you wouldn't be having massive factory farms full of them with which are breeding grounds for disease and welfare breaches and then sending them all to the slaughterhouse to be cut up into pieces hey abara so we should listen to you should the public listen to you who who who are making bulk cash off animal cruelty suffering exploitation and murder no i don't think they should i think they should listen to the the the people who are campaigning for the rights of animals for animals to be free they added ordinarily any welfare concerns are identified quickly and resolved health records support this in red tractor audits are evidence both farms are well run overall oh yeah okay so who's the red tractor auditor uh you know you're all good buddy buddy powers isn't red tractor like run by you know farmers and and things like this i mean you know what should we trust red tractor audits absolutely not absolutely not in our review of the video relating to our farms we know the vast majority of birds typically shown only in the background a healthy cleaner mobile oh really okay healthy healthy cleaner mobile we'll trust you then mate we'll trust you are they healthy cleaner mobile when they're getting their head axed off in the slaughterhouse i don't think so based on the evidence we've seen the behavior of one of the third party catching team has no place in our business and we understand that once identified the team member will be suspended pending a thorough investigation that person will be barred from working at any of our operator farm in the future okay so you just you know you're just trying to say face here like now you're probably walking and seeing this you probably wouldn't have said anything it's now because it's been made public knowledge that you you want to get rid of this guy but you know you probably just hire someone else who kicks birds the spokesperson claimed that activists increased the risk of spreading bird flu and alarm the birds when they enter the sheds oh hey okay here we go this part here is absolutely nonsense this spokesperson claimed the activist increased the risk of spreading bird flu uh okay so you creating these massive factory farms full of birds is not increasing the risk of bird flu but activists walking in there two or three activists walking in there with a camera is increasing the risk of spreading bird flu not the fact that you've got all these farmers and bird catchers working in there you've got more employees working there than three or four activists who went in with cameras so creating factory farms filled with birds doesn't increase the risk of spreading bird flu actually it creates it but a few activists does i mean great logic there mate great logic great spokesperson you are okay and they alarm the birds when they enter the sheds oh well so they're not alarmed when they get their welfare checks once a day or they're not alarmed when a farmer's grabbing them by their head and bolt gunning them in the skull and chucking them in the dead par with they've got an injury a pecking injury they're not alarmed then are they they're not alarmed when they're getting scooped up and chucked into a cage and taken to the slaughterhouse to be electrically barfed and throat slashed open they're not alarmed then or they or they go into a gas chamber they're not alarmed when they're getting casted into the gas chamber and start feeling the CO2 hit they're not alarmed then like okay like okay they're just alarmed when activists go in there with cameras hey okay great one spokesperson nice one there a green label representative said an internal investigation was conducted in the footage and a red tractor inspection found no problems oh of course red tractor finds no problems because red tractors run by farmers and all that but you know viva find problems because viva cares about the interests of the animal don't they okay yeah that sounds about right red tractor no problem avara no problem here um but you know viva there are problems because they actually got cameras and evidence okay the birds are not overweight and have no issues accessing water and feed well technically they are double the size and they usually would be so okay the viva report shows a bird with a fresh pecking wound our flock records show that affected bird was humanely culled the morning after the footage was taking oh great so viva showed that a bird has an injury from a pecking wound and it's fine because the bird was shot in the skull and thrown in a dead pile so oh thanks that's great great great work you know what what are you on about what are you on about so the way you treated this pecking wound instead of giving the bird vet care maybe letting go to a sanctuary given vet care you just shot him in the head you're proving our point for us like i don't even know why you why you'd even say that like you know you're just making our position stronger leave the turkeys alone additional environmental enrichment was also provided to prevent further incidents so what was that like sprinkle a bit of hay over the feces on the ground the welfare of our birds is an absolute priority we work to the highest standards in hygiene biosecurity and animal welfare well biosecurity you're creating factory farms filled with birds confined and you're increasing the risk of pandemics and disease you know so how the hell is the welfare of the birds your priority when you're jamming 4 000 into a shed 10 000 in a shed it's just since when is animal welfare your priority when you're sending them to the slaughterhouse to be gas chambered don't don't give me that nonsense your priority is making money off selling their flesh a british retail consortium spokesperson said members took their responsibilities to animal welfare very seriously and work closely with trusted suppliers on high welfare standards adding they have strict processes and will thoroughly investigate any evidence of non-conformity to ensure any problems immediately addressed nonsense what you do is when the footage is produced you'll say oh no they edited that wrong are they only focused on these birds not those birds oh we take animal welfare really seriously we fired one person for kicking birds uh we you know the activists they're spreading bird flu like you just make up excuses and deflect and try to take away accountability test goes insane we oh no we don't we don't get it from them we get it from some other horrible place like it's just all a bunch of nonsense what what happens is you know organizations like viva they put you on your back foot and you just make up a bunch of excuses that's all i see um but how many investigations do you have to see before you stop paying for it you're oh no no red tractor this humane slaughter this and that i swear we're in england that's all fine no england predominantly factory farms their birds okay over 90 percent of the turkeys and 95 percent of the chickens and you know all these ducks in factory farms and pigs so over nine percent of the pigs are all in factory farms you know england is rife with factory farms so how many investigations do you have to see before you boycott these places and go vegan it's christmas time there are plenty of great alternatives we'll leave the christmas pack down below thank you to all these amazing investigators who do this work without any credit and they remain anonymous and they do very great work on the front lines and thank you to organizations like viva who present this footage and show it to the media and hold these places accountable because you know this has got to end what's happening to these birds christmas time supposed to be the spirit of giving and compassion and you know all of these amazing beautiful things that people do for traditions but there's just this underlying cruel aspect of it where people take animals and sacrifice them and sit around the table with their family and you know say grace around this bird that has been killed and raised in a factory farm suffering it's just completely opposed to what spirit of christmas is supposed to be so i think myself i need to go into one of these places and see what it's like in there myself i need to go in there and see what goes on in there and see these birds and see what type of conditions they're actually living in in a red tractor approved turkey farm so we'll see what happens there but please don't eat birds like tinsel the turkey i mean these birds are all inherently amazing creatures they shouldn't be treated like this they're raised in horrible conditions they're grown double the size they're subject to egregious cruelties just so you can have a 30 minute meal and it's completely unjustifiable so again have a happy christmas a happy vegan christmas i'll leave links down below to my christmas download pack that you can take and you can give you a good guide on what to get for christmas time and thank you to viva thank you to the investigators and please be vegan this christmas peace