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Meh, turkey gots to come from somewhere.   Doesn't make her any less of a twat though. 

I would soooo hit that.

ROFL that chick is awesome.

Real nice subtle way of saying "Fuck you" to PETA and other sensitive pussies on the left.

Happy Thanksgiving.

turkey.. mmmmmmmm

I've never butchered a turkey before.  Was that contraption just for draining the blood or did it do the killing too?

pretty sure it was alive at the start of the video. Probably both.

Odd though, when my dad raised turkeys and killed them, they just took an axe to the neck on a chopping block. Maybe thats a professional turkey killing machine.

I watched it again.  The second bird is definately alive at first.  It gives a twitch at 2:17.

Or maybe its just the guy shaking it.  I guess I can't really tell.  What do they do with all the turkey blood?

Here's a blurred out YouTube version:

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After reviewing the tape in full-screen mode, I'm thinking that they pull the head through the bottom of the funnel then slit the throat and let it bleed out.  This would explain several things:

1) the first turkey dude pulls out still has a head
2) animals don't die instantly from a severed jugular (people either, in my experience) and will fight til they finally bite the dust
3) there's a big, blood-covered trough below the funnel
4) dude's pants have blood all over them

Wow, censorship makes that video even more awesome than it was in the first place.

Suite.

Of course it had to be MSNBC to plug this one.. lmao, the great turkey killing mistress.

I honestly think she knew what she was doing, and was intentionally fucking with the left. Pretty damn funny IMO



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I think you give her too much credit, Night.  She's not that smart.

She knew what she was doing, the key is she didn't really care. She's a 'country' girl so to speak and killing turkeys 'aint no thang' as it were.  It's probably not the most humane way to do it but it beats the way we used to kill sickly chickens on my farm; i.e. grabbing them by the feet and whacking their heads against a concrete ledge a time or two.

How about some more fun chicken facts!

Fact: Every batch of chickens had the points ground off of their beaks by a large grinding wheel. This sometimes removes a bit of their tongues.

Fact: If the chickens were getting sick at a higher rate we took a sample size of 12 and cut the heads off with a small knife to get blood samples

Fact: Chickens would routinely eat so much that they built up a ball of feed in their throats and suffocated

Fact: If a chicken sees blood on another chicken, they will peck at the sore until they kill the other chicken. (hence the beak grinding)

Fact: Chickens are delicious.

Oh man, you reminded me of my visit to a chicken farm.  70,000 chickens on the second floor, 4 feet of chicken shit on the first.  It was the worst smell that I've ever experience.  They're still delicious.

They are, but that mega farming bullshit where you put 70,000 chickens in one place pretty much renders the farm land in the area useless for the next generation. 

Not entirely true, they are kept in houses that can be cleaned and processed. Also, chicken crap is one of the best fertalizers you can find for pasture lands. We used it on our hay fields every year when we cleaned the houses out.

We only had 20k per house though.

In fairness unusable is an exaggeration.  70k may be a low number, I am not sure how many birds they can actually stack in a normal farm, all my relatives that farm still are dairy. 

But CAFO farms still pose huge water contamination issues when spills occur.   Not to mention the stench. The farm bureau back home did everything they could do to keep them out for that reason.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/environmentdec/36936.html

To paraphrase Jim Hightower, corporations should be able to build whatever the hell they want.  As long as it's within 5 miles of the ceo's house.   

This place was owned by the family of one of my classmates.  I asked a lot of questions.  Here are some interesting tidbits.

10000 cages.  7 chickens per cage.

2 HUGE fans keep the air circulating.  If the fans go out then everything in the building suffacates.
This happend to them once and it took the entire community 2 weeks to dig a fire pit and toss all of them in so they could burn them.

The eggs drop down on to a conveyor belt.  Apperently laying an egg isn't so great for a chicken because these things were covered in blood and shit.   MMMM

When the chichen gets old enough it gets sent to a soup company.  He wouldn't tell us which one.

They had a special dozer for plowing through the shit.  Which they used/sold as fertilizer.

Again, worst smell EVER

Laying houses are the worst smelling things around to be sure. We didn't have laying houses, we raised broilers for Hudson foods who was then bought out by Tyson. We also didn't have to keep them caged, because we weren't collecting eggs. Imagine a narrow house about 200 yards long with 20,000 chickens roaming around on the floor and it's what our houses were like.

We did have the large intake and exhaust fans on either end of the house, but also had curtains that could be raised and lowered to provide plenty of air.

A laying house is a whole other bag of tricks.

mmm chicken.

all this talk of bloody eggs and chicken shit is giving me a king's hunger!

(http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/02/27/PA1207_The-ladys-brunch-hurger_e.jpg)

burger-donut-bacon-egg-cheese

Is that a King of Town hunger?  You might need to get yerself a Poopsmith...

speaking of king sized hunger, hamburgers as a damn pizza topping

http://portlandhamburgers.blogspot.com/2007/09/links-super-sized-meals.html

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Do the chickens have large talons?