Undercover Investigations

Turkeys

North American Turkey Slaughterhouse
Cameras captured these all-too-common and heartbreaking scenes inside a turkey slaughterhouse in North America. Overheated and stressed birds panted inside their crates, turkeys were violently thrown and yanked, and birds were forced to watch as other turkeys went to slaughter. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning of the documented cruelty-other turkeys suffered a much worse fate. Read more and watch the video.

‘Meet Your Meat’: Turkeys
Intensively confined, forced to endure painful mutilations, and boiled alive at slaughter—find out why turkeys have nothing to be thankful for. Watch the video.

Butterball's House of Horrors:
Butterball workers were documented punching and stomping on live turkeys, slamming them against walls, and worse during an undercover investigation at a Butterball slaughterhouse in Ozark, Arkansas. Read more and watch the video.

Minnesota Turkey Farm Investigation
PETA discovered that the manager of Crestview Farms, a turkey factory farm in Minnesota, was wringing turkeys’ necks and bludgeoning turkeys to death with his “killing stick.” The National Turkey Federation deemed this standard industry practice. Read more and watch the video.

Inside the California Turkey Industry
East Bay Animal Advocates revealed the suffering endured by the more than 15 million turkeys killed every year in California alone. Read more and watch the video.

‘Free-Range’ Turkeys
Take a behind-the-scenes look at a “free-range” turkey farm and learn why “free-range” turkeys are just as abused as those raised in traditional factory farms.

Breeding Turkeys via ‘Artificial Insemination’
The modern turkey-flesh industry breeds and drugs turkeys to grow so large that the birds can’t even mate naturally. This investigation by Farm Sanctuary documents the artificial and bizarre means by which virtually every turkey born in today’s factory farms is conceived.