Animal Suffering in the Turkey Industry: A New COK Report

The average American consumes 17 pounds of turkey meat per year, resulting in the annual slaughter of 252 million turkeys—more than 65 million of whom are killed during the winter holiday season alone. The vast majority of turkey meat found in grocery stores and restaurants comes from birds intensively confined inside factory farms before meeting a gruesome death.

As this report details, today's standard practices on the farm, during transport, and at slaughter cause significant abuses to factory-farmed turkeys. And, unlike many other countries, there is no federal legislation in the United States protecting turkeys (or any other birds raised for food) from such cruelty.

Read this report in full.

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