Bird Flu Confirmed at Two Butterball Facilities

MFA Volunteer March 20, 2015
Last week, the USDA confirmed that turkeys from two different Butterball poultry
facilities are stricken with the avian flu strain H5N2.
According
to the
LA
Times
, the USDA confirmed one case of 40,000 infected turkeys on an
Arkansas farm on Wednesday, and another, on a farm in Missouri, on Sunday. All
infected birds will be killed.
This
comes just months after the discovery of bird flu in
Europe
and
Canada.
Turkey
factory farms are hellholes rife with filth and cruelty where birds are treated
as nothing more than meat-making machines. MFA has conducted three undercover
investigations at Butterball facilities in the U.S., resulting in criminal
convictions of workers for animal cruelty.
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a look:

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Concerned
consumers can avoid contaminated poultry and help prevent cruelty to birds by
ditching animal products in favor of healthy and humane plant-based
alternatives.
Visit ChooseVeg.com
to learn more.

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