Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

In January 2017, the six activists entered a farm in Moroni, Utah, that gives turkeys to Norbest, a big agency that aggressively markets itself to the public as promoting “mountain grown” turkeys who are treated with especially humane care. Its advertising materials feature bucolic photographs of Utah nature, designed to create an image that its turkeys are raised in fresh and fit natural settings, accompanied by assurances that its “practices are humane” and ethical, “with the health and comfort of the birds of paramount significance.