If you are going to have a turkey over for dinner tomorrow don't read this

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/HOR/

Largely hidden from view, every year over 9 billion chickens and 250 million turkeys are raised on factory farms and killed in our nation's slaughterhouses. Their suffering often goes unseen and their cries unheard - until now.

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation takes you behind the closed doors of one of the country's largest poultry slaughterhouses – House of Raeford Farms, Inc. in Raeford, North Carolina. In January and February of 2007 an MFA investigator worked in the "live-hang" area of the plant (where live birds are snapped into shackles on the slaughter line), secretly filming egregious acts of animal cruelty with a hidden camera. Shocking abuses he witnessed include:

Turkeys with broken wings and legs, bloody open wounds, tumors and other untreated injuries being slaughtered for human consumption
A worker violently punching live, shackled turkeys for "fun"
Employees forcefully shoving their hands into the cloacae (vaginal cavities) of live chickens
Turkeys and chickens being thrown across the facility and up into the air
Workers ripping the heads off live turkeys
Birds being crushed to death under the wheels of trucks
Conscious turkeys having their throats slit
After viewing the footage, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and meat-industry advisor Dr. Temple Grandin—who is generally recognized as the world's leading scientific authority on animal welfare—said, "This is a sloppy poorly managed plant where employees are allowed to abuse animals...There are some management people that need to get fired.”

The workers responsible for the abuse cannot be charged under federal law because the USDA refuses to protect turkeys and chickens in its enforcement of the Humane Slaughter Act.

As such, MFA is seeking felony cruelty-to-animals charges against House of Raeford Farms, Inc. for violating North Carolina animal cruelty statutes. On May 18, 2007 MFA furnished the Hoke County prosecutor with a criminal complaint containing affidavits and video footage documenting slaughterhouse workers violently punching, throwing, and ripping the heads off of live animals, as well as testimony from world-renowned animal welfare scientists attesting to the pain inflicted on birds at the facility.

some of the animals are clearly still alive. (Sometimes they leave the doors open). I think the owner is a jerk and NEVER buy any of their products.

Cracks me up.

back in the day my dad had to slaughter animals ... he hated to do it, but what was the alternative besides going hungry. But those animals had a real life, real air to breathe and fields to frolic in before the demise, and were well taken care of.

It's just the word play in that phrase. It cracks me up.