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A resurfaced 2006 PETA video alleges Butterball employees at an Arkansas facility sexually abused, kicked, and stomped on turkeys. The graphic footage has sparked online outrage and calls for a ...
Butterball was in the news most recently after animal advocacy group PETA posted online a 2006 video of animals being mistreated at the Butterball facility in Ozark.
Butterball denies these claims, asserting that the video does not reflect their current animal welfare policies. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is in no mood to let bygones be ...
PETA confirmed to Snopes that the clip is indeed from an undercover investigation in 2006, which was not disclosed in the Instagram post. PETA also said it did not have a more recent Butterball ...
The claim originated with an Instagram post by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The group shared a video clip of a 2006 investigation into a Butterball factory in which the ...
An undercover investigation by PETA claimed to expose animal abuse inside a Butterball turkey plant, alleging that workers sexually assaulted the animals before they were slaughtered. In a video ...
However, Butterball has since refuted PETA’s efforts to initiate a boycott against the manufacturer’s turkey, specifically by pointing out that the undercover investigation took place nearly ...
Another worker allegedly “humped” a turkey while it was restrained. The clip then cut to footage of the Butterball plant, which PETA reported “slaughters approximately 50,000 birds each day.” ...