That's what Ben Franklin called turkeys - and he like we should, had tremendous respect for their beauty, agility, and resourcefulness. They are intelligent animals who enjoy having their feathers stroked and enjoy listening to music, which they will often loudly sing along. I know that for fact. My TurkeyBird loves listening to music and often starts gobbling away, sometimes even moving her head!! In nature, turkeys can fly 55 miles per house, run 18 miles an hour, and live up to ten years.
Let's talk about factory farms for turkeys, which are a different story. When they are only 5-6 months old, they are killed! They are denied even the simple pleasures in life like being able to roam around freely and enjoying a healthy, wholesome meal. Did you know that there are roughly 300 MILLION turkeys raised and killed for their flesh every year just here in the United States alone.. and guess how many just for Thanksgiving and Christmas... 67 million. There is no federal legal protection over this massacre.
Before ending up as holiday centerpieces, these beautiful birds spend 5-6 months on factory farms, where thousands of them are packed into dark sheds with no more that 3.5 square feet of space for each bird. They are genetically bred to grow as fast as possible, and they often become crippled under their own weight. Their unnaturally large size also causes many turkeys to die from organ failure or heart attacks before they are 6 months old. According to an investigate report in the Wall Street Journal in the miserable conditions on turkey farms, "It's common in a rearing house to find a dead bird surrounded by four others whose hearts failed after they watched the first one "fall back and go into convulsions, with it's wings flapping wildly." The "murderers," or operators, walk through the shed to kill the slow-growing turkeys so they don't eat more food, such as those who fall ill because of the filthy conditions or become crippled under their own weight. In order to prevent the birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, which is inevitable, the workers, aka the killers, cut off portions of the birds' toes and upper beaks with hot blades and de-snood the males (the snood is the flap of skin that runs from the beak to the chest). No pain relievers of any kind are used during this procedures, ever.
Some of the unbelievable abuses and conditions that go on in these places include men happily shoving feces in turkeys mouths, dead birds are left rotting on the floors, and workers fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads. Workers obviously hate their jobs. I mean what an awful job to have, not to mention all of the same conditions I listed for the turkeys, are the same for the humans. So, they get frustrated, pissed off, and disgusted, and in turn, on a daily bases for some, they beat the birds with bars just for the fun of it, as they try to run and crawl away on their wings. They constantly rub their burned eyes out with their wings and their corneas become lacerated and raw. It's been videotaped that one operator at a turkey farm beat sick and injured birds to death with a pole, a killing method deemed.
Turkeys used for mating cannot mate normally because of the artificial growth rate, so what happens? The are masturbated and artificially inseminated in order to obtain semen, which is driven in the female's body. So the worker has to go through and try and get the birds, while pushing, grabbing, and wrestling them, finally jerking them upside down, pushing open their vents, dodging their panic blown excitement, and breathing the dust stirred up by terrified birds. Enough said.
The only time turkeys go out and breathe fresh air is when they are shoved onto trucks bound for slaughter. They are transported for hours without food or water through all weather extremes - many will die on this nightmarish journey. At the slaughterhouse (these places should not exist, period. I mean, it is literally a place of murder), the survivors are hung upside-down by their weak and crippled legs before their heads are dragged through an electrified "stunning tank," which immobilizes but doesn't kill. Many dodge the tank and are still completely conscious when their throats are slit. If the knife fails to properly cut the birds throat, and believe me, it does, they are scalded alive in the tank of boiling water used for feather removal.
Let's talk about factory farms for turkeys, which are a different story. When they are only 5-6 months old, they are killed! They are denied even the simple pleasures in life like being able to roam around freely and enjoying a healthy, wholesome meal. Did you know that there are roughly 300 MILLION turkeys raised and killed for their flesh every year just here in the United States alone.. and guess how many just for Thanksgiving and Christmas... 67 million. There is no federal legal protection over this massacre.
Before ending up as holiday centerpieces, these beautiful birds spend 5-6 months on factory farms, where thousands of them are packed into dark sheds with no more that 3.5 square feet of space for each bird. They are genetically bred to grow as fast as possible, and they often become crippled under their own weight. Their unnaturally large size also causes many turkeys to die from organ failure or heart attacks before they are 6 months old. According to an investigate report in the Wall Street Journal in the miserable conditions on turkey farms, "It's common in a rearing house to find a dead bird surrounded by four others whose hearts failed after they watched the first one "fall back and go into convulsions, with it's wings flapping wildly." The "murderers," or operators, walk through the shed to kill the slow-growing turkeys so they don't eat more food, such as those who fall ill because of the filthy conditions or become crippled under their own weight. In order to prevent the birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, which is inevitable, the workers, aka the killers, cut off portions of the birds' toes and upper beaks with hot blades and de-snood the males (the snood is the flap of skin that runs from the beak to the chest). No pain relievers of any kind are used during this procedures, ever.
Some of the unbelievable abuses and conditions that go on in these places include men happily shoving feces in turkeys mouths, dead birds are left rotting on the floors, and workers fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys' heads. Workers obviously hate their jobs. I mean what an awful job to have, not to mention all of the same conditions I listed for the turkeys, are the same for the humans. So, they get frustrated, pissed off, and disgusted, and in turn, on a daily bases for some, they beat the birds with bars just for the fun of it, as they try to run and crawl away on their wings. They constantly rub their burned eyes out with their wings and their corneas become lacerated and raw. It's been videotaped that one operator at a turkey farm beat sick and injured birds to death with a pole, a killing method deemed.
Turkeys used for mating cannot mate normally because of the artificial growth rate, so what happens? The are masturbated and artificially inseminated in order to obtain semen, which is driven in the female's body. So the worker has to go through and try and get the birds, while pushing, grabbing, and wrestling them, finally jerking them upside down, pushing open their vents, dodging their panic blown excitement, and breathing the dust stirred up by terrified birds. Enough said.
The only time turkeys go out and breathe fresh air is when they are shoved onto trucks bound for slaughter. They are transported for hours without food or water through all weather extremes - many will die on this nightmarish journey. At the slaughterhouse (these places should not exist, period. I mean, it is literally a place of murder), the survivors are hung upside-down by their weak and crippled legs before their heads are dragged through an electrified "stunning tank," which immobilizes but doesn't kill. Many dodge the tank and are still completely conscious when their throats are slit. If the knife fails to properly cut the birds throat, and believe me, it does, they are scalded alive in the tank of boiling water used for feather removal.
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