The Heartbreaking Life of a Farmed Turkey [Video]

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This short and heartbreaking video follows a turkey named Abby, who is bred to make more turkeys that will later be killed for meat after living a short and traumatizing life. The video also introduces us to a turkey named Emma, who is rapidly grown for meat so that the farmers can profit from her faster.

In the wild, a turkey can live as long as ten years, but in the breeding facilities, they are lucky to even live one. The heartbreaking video shows how the turkeys are bred to grow bigger and faster than ever, which leads to diseases and deformities in the animals.

The contrast between wild turkeys’ lives and farmed turkeys is explored in the video as well. Turkeys are truly incredible creatures, but the farmed ones will have to spend their lives in dark and dirty warehouses with barely enough room to move.

This Thanksgiving, approximately 46 million turkeys were killed and cooked for peoples’ dinner tables – the equivalent of the entire population of California. This is followed by another 22 million at Christmas and another 19 million at Easter. Turkeys, for whatever reason, have become a cultural staple food at major holidays. But this reliance on turkey meat is costly – for ourselves, the birds, and the planet as a whole.

Please share this video and spread the word to help expose the truth about the turkey industry.

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