Christmas turkeys in torture claim


12 December 2001



Christmas turkeys in torture claim

By Adrienne Francis

TURKEYS for Christmas are being reared in appalling conditions, claims the front page of the Daily Mail.


Page one leads with a photo of a turkey and the headline: “Barbarically tortured – is this the truth about your Christmas turkey?”


Undercover filming by animal welfare campaigners at farms across the country discovered birds living “cramped and miserable lives”, it says.


A large photo featuring a wounded turkey accompanies a further story on page 14 with the headline “Crippled cramped and dying”.


The paper says supermarkets will now inquire into the claims made by the filming team from Vegetarians International Voice for Action.


Both Tesco and Sainsburys insisted that welfare among animals which produce their meat was a priority, the paper reports.


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