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Butterball is facing calls for a boycott just days before Thanksgiving after sickening footage of poultry workers allegedly sexually abusing and torturing its turkeys resurfaced on social media.
The video, posted to PETA’s Instagram account last week, highlighted disturbing allegations from an investigation at a Butterball plant that reportedly took place nearly 20 years ago.
Butterball LLC was a joint venture of Smithfield Foods and Maxwell Farms Inc., [2] an affiliate of the Goldsboro Milling Co. [3] Seaboard Corporation bought Smithfield's stake in Butterball in 2010. The company sells over one billion pounds of turkey a year.
Butterball is the largest vertically integrated producer, processor and marketer of branded and non-branded turkey and other products. Butterball produces approximately one billion pounds of turkey each year. Through Mount Dora Farms, Seaboard processes jalapeño peppers at its plant in Honduras.
Joseph W. Luter III began his expansion of Smithfield in 1981 with the purchase of its main competitor, Gwaltney of Smithfield, for $42 million. [20] This was followed by the acquisition of almost 40 companies in the pork, beef, and livestock industries between 1981 and around 2008, [26] including Esskay Meats/Schluderberg-Kurdle in Baltimore, Valley Dale in Roanoke, [20] and Patrick Cudahy in ...
Foster Farms was established in 1939 by Max and Verda Foster. They began by investing $1,000 into a farm in Modesto, California, on which they raised turkeys.The back porch was Max's office and the first hatchery was built next to their bedroom so the eggs could get constant care. [2]
Current MFA investigators obtain employment at factory farms and slaughterhouses to document conditions. [6] Being in the facilities for extended periods of time allows the investigators to record repeated abuse and make a case for systemic and ongoing cruelty, which can spur animal cruelty convictions, corporate animal welfare policies, and new legislation.
Eric David Scott Esch (born August 3, 1966), [3] is an American television personality and retired professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and professional wrestler better known by his nickname "Butterbean".