The Unspeakable Horrors Beyond Comprehension That We Inflict On Thanksgiving TurkeysHowever bad you think the treatment of turkeys is, it's worseIn this thread I’ll include details of the systematic torment of the tens of millions of Thanksgiving turkeys killed every year, the overwhelming majority of whom are factory farmed. I’ve spent years reading about factory farming, it was worse even than I expected. Reading about the grotesque horrors is enough to make one want to vomit, and certainly never eat turkey again. For example>Now that you know how most US turkeys are conceived, you also have a way to fill those awkward silences that can occur around the Thanksgiving table. Just ask the family and friends gathered together if they know how the bird they are eating was conceived. If they don’t, enlighten them. Then ask them whether ensuring that everyone can get a generous slice of turkey breast is worth breeding a misshapen bird who cannot mate, requiring poorly paid workers to spend all day masturbating male turkeys and pushing open the vaginas of female turkeys, who hate the procedure, but have no escape from it until they are sent off to be killed.
>>5154020This may sound like hyperbole. It’s not.Have you ever wondered how the turkeys are produced? The industry has a problem with producing turkeys, because they’ve genetically engineered the turkeys to be too large to breed properly. A turkey in the wild is only 8 pounds by the age of four months, while the turkeys we confine are 41 pounds by that time. This is the equivalent of a 4-month-old baby human being over 75 pounds.So, how do they produce more turkeys? They employ a procedure that we would uncontroversially call rape if done to a human, yet is given the clinical name artificial insemination. This involves holding down a male turkey, forcibly masturbating him, collecting the semen in a beaker, holding down a female turkey, and forcibly injecting the male semen into the female turkey, even as she thrashes and tries to get away. In nature, female turkeys evolved to be quite selective about those they mate with, and unsurprisingly find the experience terrifying. Those injecting the turkey semen into the female turkeys do this ghastly procedure about once every 12 seconds. One person who worked in the industry described:>The hens weigh 20 to 30 pounds and are terrified, beating their wings and struggling in panic. They go through this every week for more than a year, and they don’t like it. Once you have grabbed her with one hand, you flop her down chest first on the edge of the pit with the tail end sticking up. You put your free hand over the vent and tail and pull the rump and tail feathers upward. At the same time, you pull the hand holding the feet downward, thus “breaking” the hen so that her rear is straight up and her vent open. The inseminator sticks his thumb right under the vent and pushes, which opens it further until the end of the oviduct is exposed.
>>5154021>Into this, he inserts a straw of semen connected to the end of a tube from an air compressor and pulls a trigger, releasing a shot of compressed air that blows the semen solution from the straw and into the hen’s oviduct. Then you let go of the hen and she flops away.Unsurprisingly, this is similarly unpleasant for the humans working in the industry. The same worker described:>It was the hardest, fastest, dirtiest, most disgusting, worst-paid work I have ever done. For ten hours we grabbed and wrestled birds, jerking them upside down, facing their pushed-open assholes, dodging their spurting shit, while breathing air filled with dust and feathers stirred up by panicked birds. Through all that, I received a torrent of verbal abuse from the foreman and others on the crew. I lasted one day.
humanity will pay some kind of terrible price for all the torment it routinely inflicts on creatures of all kinds against its better judgment, we'll seeuntil then factory farming can't be stopped, we are a killer in the midst of the act and nothing will snap us out of it
>>5154022So that’s where turkeys come from. The industry holds down female turkeys and injects male turkey semen into them so that they can continue producing hideous monstrosities too large and disabled to breed, because that produces more turkey flesh. In addition, the breeder turkeys are systematically starved>Here is the problem: if the breeders are fed as much as they want, they will, over their longer lives, grow even more obese than their shorter-lived offspring, develop even more severe skeletal abnormalities, and cheat their producers by dying from heart disease or organ failure before they have produced enough semen or eggs to pay for the cost of rearing them. Producers overcome this problem by giving the parent birds only half as much food as they would eat if they could. This practice is also used with parent birds in the chicken industry, and behavioral studies there have shown that birds restricted to half-rations are chronically hungry and search in vain for food. It is unlikely to be any different for the parent turkeys.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, turkey is so delicious.
>>5154023Maybe AI will figure out lab grown meat >>5154024On the farms, the turkeys prepared for food rather than breeding are subject to similar cruelties. They begin their lives by being debeaked, wherein their beaks are sliced off with a hot knife. Their beaks are filled with nerves, this probably feels roughly like having your nose cut off. Often, they’re mutilated in more ways: by the removal of their snood (the red part on their neck), wing feathers, and the claw on the back of the leg. All of these probably feel roughly like having one of your fingers was removed.The turkeys spend most of their lives dormant, in vast sheds where they don’t have enough space to move around. Because they’ve been bred to be so large, they cannot move comfortably, so they spend most of their time lying down. This leaves them constantly exposed to the acidic shit and ammonia that covers the floor, leaving them with constant injury. This means that they’re in constant pain whether they stand or sit.
>>5154027A natural turkey behavior involves perching in their nests. In factory farms, turkeys try to perch on the feed and water lines. To prevent this, the industry puts electric wires around the feed and water lines, so that when the turkeys try to perch, they receive extremely powerful electric shocks. The turkeys are so distressed that they often continually try to perch and continue getting powerful electric shocks. Sometimes they get tangled up in the wires and are electrocuted to death.The sheds the turkeys live in smell about as bad as anything could.>If you enter the shed, the first thing that will hit you is a burning sensation in your eyes and throat, as they react to the ammonia in the air, which in turn comes from the droppings of thousands of birds, accumulated for up to a year in the sawdust or wood shavings that cover the floor. Although each batch of birds is sent to slaughter after about 3 to 4 months, in the United States, unless there is an outbreak of disease, sheds are typically only cleaned out once a year.
Q: What happened when the turkey got into afight?A: He got the stuffing knocked out of him!
>>5154029Because the turkeys go insane as a result of the cruel conditions, a large percentage of the turkeys suffer injuries from other turkeys. These injuries are often significant, a bit like if you spent your life locked in a tiny shed with crazy people trying to bite you. Physical abuse is often routine, those who work in the slaughterhouses are disproportionately low empathy and operate on a tight schedule. As a result, one gets scenarios like the following, routinely reported via undercover investigations:>At a plant that shackles and kills about 50,000 birds every day, the PETA investigator saw a worker trying to get a turkey out of a crate when its foot was stuck in the crate’s wire. The worker simply ripped the turkey’s foot off its body.
>>5154031The main way that the turkeys are killed is that they have their throats slit. Before this, they’re supposed to be stunned, so they are passed through an electric stunner that’s supposed to render them unconscious. However, in the U.S. there’s no such stunning requirement, so many of them have their throats slit while conscious.Sometimes, however, the turkeys are killed in a much crueler way known as ventilation shutdown. This occurs when large numbers of them need to be euthanized because of a bird flu outbreak. As a consequence, the barn they’re in is shut down, and boiling steam is pumped into the barn, so that they suffocate and roast alive. This is one of the cruelest fates imaginable, and yet it’s routinely used as a way to kill turkeys.This Thanksgiving, opt out of eating the carcasses of animals that were produced by something we’d uncontroversially call sexual assault if done to humans, done so that the industry can continue to breed hideous fleshy monstrosities too large to breed, and then tortured for their entire lives in a dark shed where they can barely move, are subject to routine injury, and lie in acidic feces all the time. Turkey may taste good, but it’s not worth that.>>5154026
>>5154026Chicken tastes better and has a nicer texture. Americans are brainwashed
>>5154034Chicken flesh and eggs are one of the worst animal products.
>>5154027>Maybe AI will figure out lab grown meat Will never happen
>another benthams spam threadBuy from a farmer you like/your propaganda
>>5154023Aliens visited and seem to have approved. Then again, the most probable spacefaring race is a eusocial one that doesn’t value individual life. Individualists attempting atheistic ethics are highly unlikely to go interstellar>cuz what if i hurt someone or its not fair?To be individualist you must worship passion and accept hierarchy.
i heard that they put the turkeys on an elevated floor above electrified water and then lower the floor into the water
>>5154034I agree but we are surrounded by the most delicious chicken the world has ever seen 24/7. Gotta have something different for special days.
>>5154055they also put them in a cage with a bear and an eagle
I feel like I've seen this exact thread before, complete with the huge wall of text spams by OP after the first post.
>>5154158Its a spambot that usually makes chick grinder threads on /pol/
>>5154165I am a human
See? Its inactive the whole thread and then when I say its the chick grinder spambot it copes in literally a minuteIt’s the chick grinder spambot. It posts big walls of text of totally invalid “ethics” with links to a faggy phil101 dropouts substack.
>>5154167Schizo
>>5154167Smart and observant person>same shit posted daily>huge walls of text 60 seconds apart>goes silent >”its a bot”>”i am human, meatbag”The thing we know as vegan schizo is, in fact, an errant propaganda AI spambot from /pol/ known as chick grinder spammer. Likely chinese. >>5154170Literal JIDF tactic (I’m ex-JIDF and we literally have a dedicated button in our UI to call a post schizo lol)
>>5154173I am a human and I am not from south east Asia
>173brown nigger that's been banned countless times for jew derangement syndrome. watch thisjews are the smartest people on earth.
>>5154167That was a coincidence
>>5154197Incorrect, sir. Indians are the smartest people on earth. Jews are actually just our lost brahmin, so you are impressed by what is normal indian IQ. Although jews are 15 IQs smarter than americans, in india, they have just as many IQs as any other brahmin. -Chadjesh
easiest bait i've ever done lmao
>>5154249I'm 'baitin right now and its pretty easy
>>5154249>>5154197>absolutely lividyou are so mad right now its funny
not as mad as you are over the le jews lmaooo
>its another schizo thinks everyone is the last guy he got mad at episodenow call him anti-cat paleodogredditor
>>5154034agreed. turkey tastes like dirty water, it's a good food for fat asses trying to lose weight that's it's only benefit
>>5154023>5154023We really will, I honestly stay up at night thinking about it and how evil the world is. Everything and everyone suffers constantly and it makes me sick to my stomach. It's hard to change to because "organic" is often overpriced and just a label. To breed your own cows or pigs or chickens, you need to have a fuck ton of space and money to start everything up, which is hard to do for the average American. Also, buying from butcher shops tends to be expensive and in bulk as well. It's basically set up by the government and corporations to force suffering. You almost think something or someone if feeding off of it all.
>>5154020lol
What an actual truckload of tl,dr schizophrenic ramblings. OP I hope you choke on the cum/soi mixture you drink and it comes out your nose.
>>5154023Just be vegan, fags>but it's haaaaaard :(No, it's not>but it's expensive :(No, it's not unless you cannot cook and buy expensive meat substitutes>but my nutrition :(Eat a mix of legumes not just pick one and better yet just get vacuumed tofu and learn basic seasoning>but it's not yummy :(https://m.youtube.com/@TheeBurgerDude
