Turkey Baseball

[dgridley]

These guys need a bat to the knees IMO...


Two workers at a Bernard Matthews turkey factory have admitting using live birds to play "baseball" in what animal welfare officers described as one of the worst cases of cruelty they have encountered.

Daniel Palmer, 27, and Neil Allen, 30, both of Dereham, Norfolk, were secretly filmed hitting birds with a pole at the Bernard Matthews plant in Haveringland, Norfolk.

Both admitted ill treatment yesterday and were ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service by magistrates.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15464

 

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These guys need a bat to the knees IMO...

Absolutely.

 

[dgridley]

You know, we're brought up in a culture where it's ok to eat meat and we're at the top of the food chain, but everytime a cattle/pig/poultry truck passes me on the way to the processing plant, I get that enormous twinge of guilt. Then I hear about this kind of stuff going on and it really begins to turn my stomach.

"Simon Nicholls, for the defence, said his clients were of previous good character and full of "remorse".

He said they were influenced by "peer pressure" at the plant. "It was a culture these two became involved in," he told the court."

Geez, so I guess "peer pressure" and their previous "good character" makes for a valid excuse? I don't think so!