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In the wild, turkeys can live to up to 10 years of age, but turkeys bred for meat are killed between the ages of just 12 weeks and 26 weeks found that, between us, we eat 250 million roast potatoes, 208 million boxes of chocolates and 217 million slices of cheese over the festive season. But it’s meat that we stuff our faces with most: in 2021, we were expected to gobble 264 million slices of turkey collectively.
Meat eaters often try to reassure themselves that it’s OK to eat animals if they had a “good life”. They convince themselves that the dead animal on their plate enjoyed a long life of pastoral liberty, with a loving farmer watching benevolently over them. If anything, the omnivores tell themselves, the animal probably had a better life than most people do.
So you might be surprised to learn that the turkey you plan to eat on Christmas Day was probably born as recently as September because turkeys are slaughtered for meat from 12 weeks of age and it likely endured its short, sad existence in a cramped, industrial shed, with up toTerrible abuse has been repeatedly exposed at various British turkey farms over the years, including workers playing baseball with turkeys at a Bernard Matthews ranch in 2006.
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