Thanksgiving Brings Complaints Over Turkey Farming Claims
Worker cut and package chicken and turkey parts at the Pleasant Valley Poultry processing facility in Ohio.
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Thanksgiving week kicked off with complaints about how turkeys processed by some U.S. poultry producers are handled.
Six nonprofit groups including Family Farm Action Alliance and Animal Equality filed a complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission claiming Cargill Inc., one of the world’s biggest meat processors, was misleading customers with product labels mentioning the company’s association with “independent family farmers.”