{.,)<\/p>\n
oh, to remember a Thursday in November
\nof family and dinner and laughter and love
\nthe heavenly aroma of grandma’s turkey roasting
\nthe one she raised and grandpa butchered<\/p>\n
no more turkey in the straw
\nno more gobble gobble
\nno more mating Tom
\nnot enough gravy to disguise
\nthe tasteless leathery flesh
\nof a tortured life<\/p>\n
\u201cEmployees stomped on turkeys’ heads, punched turkeys, hit them on the head with a can of spray paint and pliers, and struck turkeys’ heads against metal scaffolding.
\n \u201cMen shoved feces and feed into turkeys’ mouths and held turkeys’ heads under water. Another bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey’s throat.
\n \u201cA supervisor said he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s.
\n \u201cOne man said he saw a coworker fatally inject turkey semen and sulfuric acid into turkeys’ heads.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandma,
\nwhere do cruel people come from?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy angel, my love,
\nthey are what they eat,
\nand when they eat
\ntortured flesh
\nthey live with a tortured soul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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