Gloucestershire turkey farms which supply UK supermarkets found to have really bad welfare and standards:
“At a Gloucestershire-based farm that produces birds for Avara Foods, which supplies many of the UK’s supermarkets and restaurants, workers were seen “brutally kicking helpless birds”. Investigators said the footage showed birds being kicked “more than 218 times” while being herded.
Footage documented many birds being “carelessly trapped”, with their wings caught in transport crates, and workers repeatedly failing to remove the trappages, “causing unnecessary suffering”.
At the same unit, turkeys were found with broken wings and one had a “gruesome” protruding wing bone injury. This would have been difficult to miss in a welfare check, but appeared to have gone untreated, according to the observers.
At a third farm, also in Gloucestershire and supplying Avara, birds were so overweight they struggled to stand after falling over so could not get to the water and food supplies, the investigators said. Turkeys were further said to be suffering “breathing problems, as well as deformed legs and feet”, issues commonly found in intensive farms because birds have to stand in their own waste.“
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All so the ‘want-something-for-nothing’ British consumer can save a few quid. Think before you buy.
Shame on our County - criminal Gloucestershire turkey farms
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