Two former turkey catchers for Plainville Farms have entered accountable pleas and have been sentenced in a case the place they have been accused of animal abuse.
Juan Carlos Turi Baeza and Jose Enrique Turi Baeza entered the pleas on the Cumberland County Court docket of Not unusual Pleas. Each have been sentenced to twelve months of supervised probation, and neither can download employment in positions that may contain the care of animals all over that 12-month duration, consistent with a press unencumber from animal rights crew Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA).
The animal cruelty claims have been first raised via a video circulated via PETA in August 2021. The video depicted scenes of turkeys being thrown, kicked and picked up via their necks.
Fees in opposition to 10 different former Plainville Farms staff stay pending, with the ones fees filed in more than one counties.
In a while after the video surfaced, Plainville Farms introduced it was once cooperating with legislation enforcement businesses and had introduced its personal investigation into the subject. The results of that investigation was once the termination of 13 staff, in addition to the acquisition of frame cameras for a third-party animal welfare specialist to watch all reside operations via staff.
The corporate additionally changed catching staff with a third-party supplier to offer catching services and products.
Up to now a part of Hain Celestial’s Hain Natural Protein phase, Plainville Farms was once got in 2019 via a newly-formed investor crew referred to as Plainville Manufacturers LLC.
Plainville Farms, consistent with the WATTPoultry.com Best Poultry Corporations Database, processed 90 million kilos of reside turkeys all over the previous yr. It ranks because the 15th greatest turkey corporate in america.