For Speedy Launch:
November 17, 2023
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Los Angeles – “They threw hens like they had been basketballs. After failing to interrupt their necks, they left the birds to convulse and die in agony,” Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix says as he narrates a new PETA video—launched as Individuals start making their Thanksgiving plans—revealing stunning undercover footage of former staff violently abusing turkeys for Plainville Farms, a self-professed “humane” turkey provider to Wegmans, Publix, Harris Teeter, and different high grocers.
“Should you have fun Thanksgiving, cease paying somebody to harm animals to your Thanksgiving centerpiece,” says Phoenix, who has been vegan because the age of three. “Select a vegan roast so that everybody can have one thing to be glad about this vacation season.”
The video—which is way much less graphic than the complete model accessible at PETA.org—reveals former staff kicking and throwing dwell turkeys and beating them with a steel rod, together with birds who had been sick, injured, and unable to stroll. Following PETA’s investigation, Pennsylvania State Police charged 12 former Plainville Farms staff with a complete of 141 counts of cruelty to animals, the biggest quantity in any factory-farmed animal case in U.S. historical past.
Annually within the U.S., about 46 million turkeys—usually between 14 and 18 weeks previous—are killed and bought for Thanksgiving alone. Throughout their quick lives, they’re usually compelled to face in their very own waste and are bred to develop so massive so shortly that their legs give out. At slaughterhouses, staff grasp the younger birds the wrong way up, drag them by means of an electrified tub, slit their throats, and dump them into scalding-hot defeathering tanks—usually whereas they’re nonetheless aware.
Regardless of this, Plainville Farms nonetheless claims to supply “humane” turkey from birds in a “stress-free surroundings.”
PETA’s “ThanksVegan” information is filled with recipes, cooking ideas, and every part else wanted to get pleasure from a scrumptious, turkey-friendly vacation.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and gives a free vegan starter equipment on its web site. For extra data, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.