Dindes torturées dans un élevage (PETA)

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More than 72 million of the nearly 270 million turkeys killed for food every year in the U.S. are slaughtered for holiday meals. This year, just prior to the flesh-focused Thanksgiving holiday, PETA conducted an undercover investigation lasting more than two months at the factory farms of Aviagen Turkeys, Inc., the self-proclaimed "world's leading poultry breeding company."

>>> video http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation

While working at a series of Aviagen factory farms in West Virginia, PETA's investigator documented that workers tortured, mutilated, and maliciously killed turkeys. The following are just a few of the documented offenses:

Employees stomped on turkeys' heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys' heads against metal scaffolding.

Men shoved feces and feed into turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat.

A supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.

One man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads.

To learn more, please read the investigator's log notes
and experts' statements,
view our photo gallery, and visit our blog.

PETA's investigator repeatedly brought abuses to a supervisor's attention. The supervisor responded, "Every once in a while, everybody gets agitated and has to kill a bird." PETA also brought the abuse to the attention of Aviagen, and although the company made assurances and instituted some new rules, the cruelty did not stop.

PETA's investigator also saw disgusting, cramped conditions. The rotting remains of about 70 hens were left amid live birds—who had to climb over the dead—for more than a day. A supervisor urinated in turkey pens, and workers spat tobacco in the pens as well. The suffering typically found on factory farms was also routine in Aviagen's sheds: Hens' beaks were cut with pliers, massive birds collapsed and died of exhaustion or heart attacks, and turkeys were thrown into transport cages.

Those who eat turkeys are supporting this cruelty. Please help us put an end to this suffering by leaving turkeys off your plate and by supporting PETA's work in behalf of animals.

Please also write to the National Turkey Federation and urge it to recommend that all turkey breeders implement PETA's seven-point animal welfare plan

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation

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Une horreur !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Il y avait eu une enquête de PETA aussi en 2006, dans une ferme d'élevage de dindes «Butterball» à Arkansas

http://www.goveg.com/feat/butterball/butterball-investigation.asp

http://www.goveg.com/feat/butterball/butterball.asp

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Oui, je m'en rappelle. Immonde.


Turkey-abuse video leads to suspension - 20/11/08
http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200811190838

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Citation :

The company fired 11 employees and provided animal cruelty training throughout its North American operations after that, but a Hardy County grand jury in 2005 declined to indict any of the workers involved.

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LEWISBURG, W.Va. -- Several workers at a West Virginia turkey plant have been fired after they were caught on film abusing birds.

Aviagen Turkeys spokeswoman Sandi Hofmann said the employees, including a supervisor, were released around Thanksgiving.

The abuse was disclosed last month by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which released undercover video recordings of workers punching, kicking and beating live turkeys.

PETA released a statement today saying it is asking prosecutors in Greenbrier and Monroe counties to press criminal charges.

Hofmann says the company has reminded employees that animal abuse will not be tolerated and incidents of abuse must be reported to a member of the company's management team.


Workers shown on video abusing turkeys are fired - 08/12/08
http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200812080487