This picture is a grotesque lie.
This and other illustrations of Christmas and Thanksgiving tell us a lie. What these people have in front of them is the remains of an animal who has endured a life of confinement, suffering, pain, mistreatment, and disease. These are all creatures with intelligence and with feelings, as those with pet chickens and other birds can testify.
How can we celebrate family love and believe we are thanking God when we are being complicit with the torture of billions of living creatures - not just turkeys - who are murdered each year in a most sadistic way.
HIDDEN CAMERA CAPTURES BLATANT ANIMAL ABUSE AT HYBRID TURKEYS FARM
TORONTO -- Disturbing video showing employees of one of the world's leading turkey producers clubbing, kicking and otherwise abusing the hapless birds is evidence of a culture of cruelty and neglect at the factory farm, an animal-rights group said Friday. The company in question, Hybrid Turkeys, said it had suspended four employees and called the abuse depicted in the video an isolated incident. The video was shot at a Hybrid plant in Bright, Ont., by a member of the animal rights group, Mercy for Animals Canada.
Footage also shows workers apparently crushing the spines of birds while others are left to die from festering and bloody wounds.
"This investigation graphically illustrates that the hidden price of Canadian turkey meat is horrific animal abuse," said Twyla Francois, a spokeswoman for Mercy For Animals. "This is blatant animal cruelty that shouldn't be supported in a civilized society." In anticipation of the video's release, Hybrid said last week that it had taken immediate steps to ensure the ethical treatment of its turkeys. "Hybrid has zero tolerance for animal abuse," managing director David Libertini said in a statement.
Hybrid said it would co-operate with any investigations into the abuse and had already initiated a third-party review of company policies and procedures. The company also said it would become the first turkey producer in North America to employ mandatory video monitoring and veterinary review of all turkey euthanasia.
Mercy for Animals said national standards across the county need to be tightened to include immediate veterinary care for sick or injured birds. All facilities that handle farmed animals should install video monitoring and livestream the footage on the Internet, the group said. The activists also called on the industry to forego some profits by stopping the breeding of turkeys for rapid growth that can leave them crippled under their own weight. Some of the birds suffer from bone defects, hip-joint lesions, foot and leg deformities, and heart attacks as a result of the unnaturally fast growth, Mercy said.
More than 21 million turkeys are raised and killed for food every year in Canada -- of which about 60 per cent come from Hybrid. Hendrix Genetics, the parent company of Hybrid Turkeys, is the second largest producer in the world.
Videos of abuse at Hybrid Turkeys Farm.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hidden-camera-captures-blatant-animal-cruelty-at-turkey-farm-1.1729233
TURKEY TORTURE - Watch 2.5 minute video and sign petition on Mercy for Animals website here
http://www.turkeytorture.ca/
Pictures of a bird in nature
and one in a factory farm (photos Mercy for Animals).
DEAR READERS, animal farms and slaughterhouse managers always appear very shocked when the secret is out exposing routine animal abuse at their facilities.
They didn't know. They are so sorry. They will make sure it never happens again, they say. What they're sorry for is that they got caught.
The cruel mistreatment of animals is so widespread that authorities in the United States are now making it a crime to record evidence of animal cruelty at animal industry facilities.
The fact is that MUCH ANIMAL ABUSE IS PERFECTLY LEGAL - as it is shown on this graphic but very informative 12 minute video by Mercy for Animals - From Farm to Fridge - exposing LEGAL and illegal methods of torturing and murdering billions of animals each year.
VIDEO - FROM FARM TO FRIDGE -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlAR1rITpM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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The abuse is so widespread that authorities are now characterizing those who expose these crimes as "criminals" - and even as "terrorists".
IDAHO ADOPTS AG-GAG LAW
The state of Idaho has joined other states in passing a law where anyone who films or records on an agricultural operation without permission will face up to a year in jail. That's double the maximum penalty for animal cruelty under Idaho law.
Offenders of the new law can find themselves in prison for up to a year as well as paying steep fines of $5000 for secretly entering a possible animal-abuse site and filming or recording in any way. The new law also criminalizes falsifying documents like a resume in order to get hired on a farm to go ‘undercover.’
This means that our civilized society condones the sadistic abuse of innocent animals - while penalizing those who expose those crimes".
Read more -
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Here are other abuses uncovered by Mercy for Animals.
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/investigations.aspx
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/995/822/044/hidden-camera-captures-blatant-animal-cruelty-at-turkey-farm/
More articles on cruelty against animals on this blog
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Animals%20-%20Cruelty%20against%20animals
Please stop consuming animal products, and demand that our countries stop exporting live cattle, sheep and goats to Asia and Africa where the mistreatment of animals is even greater. Those animals are exported live for their slaughter during religious festivals.
Please stop consuming animal products, and demand that our countries stop exporting live cattle, sheep and goats to Asia and Africa where the mistreatment of animals is even greater. Those animals are exported live for their slaughter during religious festivals.
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