Dear MFA Supporter,
Animal abusers beware! MFA's latest undercover
investigation into a Butterball turkey factory farm has led to landmark
felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges against five Butterball employees
by state authorities.
Additionally, Dr. Sarah Jean Mason, the director of Animal Health
Programs with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, has pled guilty to
obstruction of justice charges after admitting
to leaking confidential information to Butterball and potentially
compromising the criminal cruelty investigation by state law enforcement
officials.
MFA's undercover investigation shows that Butterball allowed a culture of
cruelty and abuse to fester at its company-owned factory farms -- graphically
illustrating that the secret ingredient in Butterball turkey is criminal animal
abuse.
Hidden-camera footage taken during MFA's undercover investigation
at Butterball reveals:
- Workers
violently kicking and stomping on birds, dragging them by their fragile
wings and necks, and maliciously throwing turkeys onto the ground or into
transport trucks in full view of company management;
- Employees
bashing in the heads of live birds with metal bars, leaving many to slowly
suffer and die from their injuries;
- Turkeys
covered in flies, living in their own waste, unable to access food or
water and suffering from severe feather loss and necrotic (dead) muscles
and skin;
- Birds
suffering from serious untreated illnesses and injuries, including open
sores, infections, rotting eyes, and broken bones; and
- Severely
injured turkeys, unable to stand up or walk, left to die without any
veterinary care, because treating sick or injured birds was too costly and
time consuming, as the farm manager explained to MFA's investigator.
While MFA works to expose and end animal abuse at Butterball and
other giants of the meat, dairy and egg industries, you can help by contacting
Butterball.
Click
here to sign MFA's petition urging Butterball to implement meaningful animal
welfare policies to prevent some of the worst abuses at its factory farms.
After sending an email asking Butterball to make these important
changes, consider making a few changes of your own. Every time we sit down to
eat, we can choose compassion over cruelty. Adopting
a diet free of meat, dairy and eggs is perhaps the single most important
and powerful action you can take to prevent needless cruelty to animals.
Sincerely,
N athan Runkle
Executive Director
Mercy For Animals | 8033 Sunset Blvd, Ste 864 | Los Angeles | CA | 90046
