 do you eat the birds out of here mate? do you eat the turkeys from here? uh you're spooking the shits out of them here no way before they're going into the point no we're not with a camera is quiet a forklift is loud and scary i'm sure don't care that much about spooking the birds when they're going through the co2 gas chamber a murderer of birds say that you're spooking the birds you know how dare you okay i think we're coming up to the place now on the left hand side the security guard is that a gas cylinder there i don't know what that big cylinder is but most turkeys in the uk are killed via gas so you're out here by yourself again i've seen this is peters peters only the finest ingredients all right we've got a a truck here first truck of the day filled with turkeys he's not going to stop him for us you're going to stop him for us seems like they've been a bit selective about what trucks are going to stop i think maybe they're maybe they're choosing them from a certain farm ay because some farms so as you can see on the floor here it's frozen it is about a zero degrees this morning which is terrible when you think about those birds waiting in the trucks freezing waiting to get gassed at this killing facility for christmas how horrible what gas do you use here is it co2 or nitrous oxide we only do security we can't answer your question no i'll get you you probably wouldn't want to anyway some people don't want to give information about the slaughterhouse anyway the process is probably the same as all these anyway yeah yeah just find your back please is that workers are they workers a lot of people like don't want to work in slaughterhouses ay not not on the kill floor and doing gross work like cleaning it cleaning all the guts and blood up it's pretty terrible so they're tipping body parts of these turkeys that are still warm into that truck you can see the steam coming off of them they look like necks or some type of other entrails probably necks sick disgusting christmas massacre if these were human beings it would be on the front page of every newspaper on earth but because they're turkeys and people just look at them like the crap on their boots they look at them like they're nothing this doesn't even matter no one blinks an eye at this these were conscious beings who wanted to live they're hacked up into pieces they're steaming body parts are dumped into a bin disrespect of sentient life disgusting how are you mate i'm lead site manager are you the site manager for this turkey site oh cool just wondering what gas do they use here co2 or nitrous oxide a combination he's a co2 but with a combination okay because i was looking at that big green cylinder over there that's not gas is that gas that's the only cylinder you have here for the entice there's two there and how many turkeys do you do here a year it's about 60 000 a week 60 000 a week turkeys turkeys wow and you can't comment on your thoughts can you even more respect i'm a meaty turkey do you eat turkeys from here yeah so a lot of people that i speak to they work at slaughterhouses they don't actually eat the animals from i mean i've only been here for four months i was in the duck plant it was there for 16 years it's all about turkeys because it is christmas you're probably doing more this month more turkeys are slaughtered for christmas here than normal they're normal there's a build-up towards it you don't just hit that quota around this time you build up to that quota and they freeze them and then you sell they'll be sold people stopped eating turkeys at christmas time this place would probably go under it wouldn't be enough it's still got all year round business as well okay this is one of the biggest turkey slaughterhouses in the country uh yeah it's probably one of the top three yeah they come from a red tractor farms here do you have a welfare standard you you will only kill that this is a red tractor farm so that just gives you an idea of what they pass for red tractor in this country and people see that label and they think oh well you know british grown turkey and red tractors the minimum and then you have rspca and do you kill free range turkeys here too i'm not sure if they're free range they're organic yeah they're usually a bronze color they're usually a bronze definitely they do the bronze ones so they possibly do do those here okay and the the gas chamber here they put the turkeys on this conveyor belt and it runs it's the standard angular also flow module system and they go through like it's like a tunnel yeah it's a what they call the ces control atmosphere stunning yeah yeah yeah they do a similar thing for pigs but they drop them down into a dungeon so what do you do then if you see like a really poorly bird do they just call them on the spot there is a culling protocol they'll go to like either fertilizer or dog food or from dog food all the way to rendering and and in incineration so it depends on what the level of risk if they're really bad then then they won't even go to dog food because of the contamination too yeah i was wondering would you take me through the slaughterhouse with a camera no why not because if you're not to go through media sense and do it that way okay but would they would they would they uh do it before in the past um because they wouldn't have anything to hide here would you no not at all because you're doing everything by the book and of course we have because of we've governed under the fsa guidance we have regular visits by customers the problem is is again is about how the trail comes across and where it comes from they did this about two years ago and allowed some to do it but that didn't get portrayed the same way i don't have a problem with it i've done it before in the past and i would rather educate people than keep people in keep them in the dark yeah i mean i appreciate that is this stopping this will stop okay let's go the thing is you'll spook the turkeys can you pull the back was that for us no because of if we start opening it up that will cause us problems we've got to a stop here get it all venting off properly before we start doing anything like that well then how are we supposed to um there's no way of seeing these birds they're about to be gassed though so they're going to be spooked anyway have you got a can i sit get their face just one second mate and i will okay that's terrible i can't even can we just step back excuse me i can't see them i can't see the bird can we have a little bit more time than that i couldn't even get a good shot of the birds it was only 30 seconds i didn't even have time to focus and stuff we're not going to spook them more than when you unclip the thing and just start taking them up with forklifts you know you're about to do you take them off a forklift so what why would us with a camera spook them more than a forklift it makes no sense right when we're doing it we have a process that we follow okay i'll get you yeah so we unload then we put them to one side and that's it dumb yeah that's going to spook the shit out of him with the forklift right okay but you're spooking the shit out of him here no way they're going into the point no we're not with a camera is quiet a forklift is loud and scary right okay that's all i'm saying we just want to get a good some good shots of them and uh we couldn't all right i appreciate what you said but we have a time on there we said that there'll be a time limit that we do and that's what was the time what's the time limit three minutes that was nowhere that was not three minutes that was 30 seconds tops right i'm not going to get into an argument if you said i'll come into torch yeah no i appreciate it you've been really helpful it was just it's just like okay yeah so that made no sense like why why would a camera spook the the birds when they're about to take them out with a forklift and gas them there's nothing to do with spooking the birds there was nothing to do with spooking the birds he if he cared about the birds he wouldn't be manhandling them with a forklift and then gassing them to death so it's just it's just annoying like he he's been polite and respectful which i appreciate but they don't don't make nonsense claims like we're spooking the birds and we're trying to get a shot of them so the people can see who they're eating what's your plans for the day we want to bear witness to as many turkeys that we can so he said three minutes but we didn't have enough time it's only a minute and then we're just getting ready getting the cameras ready and then the like get out of the way you're spooking the birds but they're going to get a forklift out in a minute and grab the birds with a forklift and take them off the truck which is going to spook them way more it's just we can't go footage of the birds them why are we what's the point of us standing out here you know and then them stopping a truck for 30 seconds it's kind of like we'll i want to get the footage of the birds we want to show the footage of the birds but he's not allowing us to so you know do we have to get the footage of the birds in another way to have to stand in front of the truck like we do at other places because this slaughterhouse won't cooperate with us but we want to be safe and we don't want to piss anyone off and uh you know it's just if we just get an extra minute and a half so it's three minutes and they're going to be waiting over there for 10 minutes anyway and get a forklift shoved into them and get gas to death anyway you know like i'm sure don't care that much about spooking the birds when they're going through the co2 gas chain base it's like a couple more minutes they're going to get killed anyway you know what i mean i mean the guys seem quite reasonable he did i'm sure he did i think he's a bit nervous that we're going to do something but we're really not we know they're going to get executed we you know they're killing them here this is the last moments of their life just trying to show people hey if you don't want to eat turkeys this is what they look like you know and they've got nothing to hide here he's told me got nothing to hide so when the next truck comes you're going to be here for that no i'm going to go soon but we will be doing drive-bys just while you're here because that's that's our policy um so so yeah so long as it's a peaceful protest and you're all you're all safe and everyone the work's here safe as well we're opposed to violence of all kinds to all beings so we won't be any violence we don't want to be disobedient either we want to work with people they're going to get killed anyway what's the next couple minutes do you eat the birds out of here mate do you eat the turkeys from here i haven't for a long time how long you worked before a few years for years why don't you eat them here i i just i eat lots of different things that we're going to be honest okay but do you eat turkeys in general yes okay but it wouldn't turn you off eating turkeys working here smelling no i'm here for the welfare on this site he's the best in the world best you've ever seen the best i've ever seen is if i've been part of this industry okay do you obviously don't see the welfare on the farm so because you you know i don't have anything to do with that yeah and you see all the guts and the blood and all that doesn't turn you off at all no not really okay and the smell of the turkeys no that that's interesting wow a lot of people do get turned off i speak to guards that work at pigs slaughterhouses and they don't want to eat the the pork out of even if they get it yeah that's interesting wow okay so it's totally fine here everything's totally humane you don't see anything wrong with it at all the way it is in line with legislation circle of life like obviously legislation is one thing right what's legal is one thing but what's like ethical completely separate issues because slavery was once legal but it was unethical so that you know the law takes time to catch up to morals in history there's lots of things like that yeah exactly so this this is like one of those things where like okay these beings they don't want to die obviously they would prefer to live she gave them a choice if they understood the choice and you said in turkey language you die if you go in this chamber you can live which one would you choose i'm sure they'll choose to live yeah so they've been killed against their will that's all it's interesting that you don't see anything wrong with that that's all because uh maybe you don't analyze it like that and you just see just dumb food animals or something but uh they do they are definitely wrong opinions listen to that sound listen to that sound you don't think that that scares the birds so basically putting a camera near a turkey spooks them but a massive mechanical forklift doesn't spook them it's a very triggering thing for me to hear a murderer of birds say that you're spooking the birds you know how dare you how dare you and farmers do this too oh you know you're spooking the birds when you go into the into the farm oh and you're not when you when you cull them in front of each other and when you catch them trucking crates and send them to be gassed to death disgusting really when you think about it how dare you don't care if the birds are spooked you're a bird killer there they go off to be gassed to death that's just a fridge truck that's filled with the carcasses of those animals just drive out suck them all truck frozen bodies in there sending the animals to be eaten by the unaware consumer or the ignorant consumer who is aware just deliberately ignorant that was funny before he's like this place has the highest welfare of any slaughterhouse an entire world it's like come on dude it's no such thing as high welfare killing killing and welfare are diametrically opposed things it's like a mass murder facility a yeah this is a huge turkey holocaust just happening in this like this place alone isolated from every other place in the world this place here alone if this existed itself it would be a horrible facility you know but these this is just one of it like thousands what's up buddy right next vehicle is during about five ten minutes excellent okay we'll stop here yes we'll try and keep it stopped as long as three minutes yes bro appreciate it um so we'll stop it at three minutes as long as we don't block the road okay okay we uh we want to be we want to make this really safe thank you very much appreciate it thank you he kills animals for a living and he he has for the last 15 years that's amazing so lettuce processing facilities are actually worse than slaughterhouses so the welfare of the lettuce is really bad compared to the turkeys okay here we go hey darling there's a little baby here four babies okay there's another one here i'm just gonna film so everyone can see you know they kill three million turkeys here every year three million and they kill them in a gas chamber no the gas these innocent birds are about 16 weeks old yeah well we they only do it because the people in the public pay them to do it for them so they can eat the birds so if the people stop buying it they'll stop supplying it that's true there's things that you can control like uh purchasing slaughtered animals there's starvation that happens in the world that's outside of our control it should definitely be illegal to torture and kill animals and serve it to people there's mostly factory farms in the UK but they like to sell people advertising of green pastures and things like that but they don't show people what happens in there they should let people walk through there and have a look i always say this to people when you're in the supermarket you can choose to buy a vegan which means no animals harmed or the other stuff which has some animal products slaughtered torture mushroom leather pineapple leather yeah there are alternatives you can make milk out of soybeans or milk out of oats you can make cheese oat milk have you tried almond milk oh really well the dairy cows will get slaughtered and their calves get taken and slaughtered so it depends if you find a plant milk you like over the slaughter and torture of the dairy cows i mean it's kind of what you're weighing up getting used to a different milk or so we would kind of rely on the consumer to help shift their the economy into plant-based non-animal businesses and that's what we rely on people like you good-hearted people who just change where they do their purchasing there's a truckload of turkeys right behind you about to go in to be slaughtered poor baby poor bird hey darling here we go what's that uh-huh it's just a sick sick industry isn't it infant eyes innocent birds and just uh i just don't know how they can uh to see all those individuals all the time just watch them get gas to death every single day and just not think anything of it like it's it's very bizarre like dynamic that has to happen psychological dynamic and cultural dynamic for people to just see those little faces and going into slaughter every single day and just not just not think anything of it you know it's incredibly sad future if you want and then i can deal with me directly no worries thanks appreciate appreciate your help have a good christmas and uh hope you have a vegan roast don't kill any animals this christmas see you mate so here we are avarra foods killing 60 000 turkeys every week three million a year that's crazy gassing innocent birds you know for christmas time so most of the turkeys in the uk will be eating that christmas time i think it's like 15 million or something crazy numbers look christmas time why would you sit down and celebrate christmas with the body of an innocent bird that was slaughtered against their will try some of the amazing vegan options we've got the vegan christmas guide linked down below just try one of the many amazing vegan roasts this christmas go vegan there's no need to cause suffering violence and death to innocent beings to celebrate christmas completely opposed to everything that you probably believe christmas is all about which is sharing kindness and compassion there's nothing kind about gas chambers about killing innocent beings and there's nothing kind about eating the bodies of innocent beings too so for christmas be kind and live vegan fingers have frostbite imagine how the birds are feeling in the back of those trucks