Undercover video shows workers beating the shit out of turkeys

[Twister]

Gross unneeded cruelty

Workers punching, kicking and throwing turkeys. Their spines crushed and heads bashed in with metal rods and shovels. Turkeys with rotting eyes, festering infections and open wounds; one left to drag its exposed intestines across the dirty ground.

These are the shocking images found by a hidden-camera investigation by an animal-rights group into an Ontario turkey farm. The footage is sparking tough questions about the lack of government oversight of the industry.
An investigator from Mercy for Animals Canada went undercover at Hybrid Turkeys Factory Farm in Kitchener, Ont., posing as an employee between Dec. 2 and Feb. 2, to gather the disturbing footage.

“A culture of cruelty and neglect was allowed to fester at this factory farm under the watch of management who failed to act to intervene to prevent the suffering of these animals,” said Twyla François, Mercy for Animals Canada director of investigations, at a press conference Friday.

She said the Ontario Provincial Police has launched a criminal cruelty to animals investigation. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) is also investigating.
Video
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...violence_against_turkeys_at_ontario_farm.html

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I think that subject is on Market Place on the CBC tonight.

 

[thailover]

mmmmmmm tender turkey

 

[Aardvark154]

It is difficult to understand how people can behave like this.

 

[Scarey]

My wife's brother works in the Beef industry and has for about 15 years.He's worked in slaughter houses etc.We've had a few conversations about this.He has said for many , it is just a job and they want to do it well, but every couple of months or so they hire someone who truly enjoys hurting the animals.I can't speak for any other industry, but he said they have informal cues they are told to look out for with new employees.If they see them, they get rid of them.They have no desire to see their plant on the 6 pm news.He did say he's seen more then one psychopath in training go through there in 15 years.

 

[kajan]

if i ever see this guy i will beat the shit out of him. how can people behave like this.

 

[asterwald]

I'd like to see these cowards do that to ostrich's or moa.

 

[bobistheowl]

I've chopped chickens' heads off with an axe, not for fun, but because they were raised for food.

In hindsight, it was way immature to re-enact a scene from Apocalyse Now by tossing a chicken head over the fence to where the remaining live chickens were milling about, but I plead intoxication.

 

[Smash]

On occasion I would choke my chicken but that's as far as it goes.