Butterball addresses turkey sex abuse controversy as customers boycott brand on busiest week of the year

Butterball - the largest producer of turkey products in the United States - has spoken out amid furor over a shocking PETA video that is damaging its reputation just days before Thanksgiving. The company noted that the footage posted PETA's Instagram page last week that showed workers sitting on turkeys, smacking, humping and sexually abusing the birds at the Ozark, Arkansas plant was from 2006. Butterball - the largest producer of turkey products in the US - has spoken out about a video showing workers allegedly sexually abusing the birds in 2006 But in the disturbing footage, an undercover investigator claimed he saw a Butterball employee shoving his finger up a turkey's cloaca, or vagina, for 'fun' and witnessed another worker humping a turkey while it was restrained, according to the animal rights group. The disturbing footage posted to PETA's Instagram last week showed workers sitting on turkeys, smacking and humping the birds and sexually abusing them at the Ozark, Arkansas plant in 2006 Many online were quick to call out the company for the abuse One Instagram user said he threw out his turkey after seeing the video and will not be buying from the company ever again The video had been part of PETA's strategy to get Americans to skip out on the Thanksgiving Day staple this year.