On April 13, one worker showed how he could paralyze birds by repeatedly punching their necks. No animal should be subjected to such cruel treatment. That is why PETA's unique undercover investigations are so important: They help us expose—and hopefully stop—animals from suffering such horrible pain and abuse. PETA investigations take months or even years to arrange. They are expensive and dangerous, placing the safety and even the lives of our undercover workers at risk. Yet our investigators have succeeded in bravely securing video footage from factory farms and slaughterhouses in order to amass irrefutable evidence of the atrocities that take place there. There's nothing comparable to having someone inside a slaughterhouse witnessing this abuse firsthand and exposing what animal abusers try so desperately to hide. If you are disgusted by this senseless animal abuse, please take these three important steps today:

Send a letter to your member of Congress. Ask your representative why birds aren't covered by the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Ask him or her to initiate a federal investigation of the Butterball plant and other cases of animal abuse.

On May 3, another worker swung a live turkey like a baseball bat against a metal bar, smashing the bird's head and spraying blood everywhere. On May 8, one worker laughed out loud as he crushed a turkey's skull with the heel of his boot.

On July 13, two workers attempted to decapitate a live turkey by twisting her neck and pulling her head through a hole in her enclosure.