Behind Closed Doors — Artificial Insemination Videos
Artificial Insemination – Turkeys
Nearly all turkeys sold for meat — and 100% of white-feathered, broad-breasted commercial turkeys — are bred via artificial insemination. In part, this is because turkeys killed for meat have been bred to grow so large and so fast that they cannot mate naturally.
Workers on breeding farms crudely squeeze and pinch male turkeys’ genitalia to extract their semen, then restrain and roughly inseminate female turkeys with syringes.
See also: United Poultry Concerns – In the Turkey Breeding Factory
Artificial Insemination – Cows
Most cows are impregnated via A.I. To maximize profits and keep them at peak lactation, producers re-impregnate dairy cows once a year after a short time to “dry off.”1
Insemination involves an invasive procedure in which farmers insert one arm up to the elbow into the cow’s rectum, while using the other hand to insert an “A.I. gun” deep into the cow’s cervix.
Rectal violation plays no part in natural cow mating, and frequently results in cows violently defecating, as seen in the clip below.
After carrying their babies for nine months, dairy cows endure permanent separation from their calves within hours of birth in order for humans to take the milk intended for them.
See also: Free From Harm – Sexual Violation of Dairy Cows in 14 Steps
Artificial Insemination – Pigs
The majority of sows used to breed pigs for meat are also impregnated via A.I.2
During pig breeding, a chained boar is paraded or dragged through a barn full of restrained sows while workers rub and fondle them in order to provoke sexual excitement. Workers will often even mount the backs of sows to simulate the boar’s role, while forcibly inserting pipettes of semen into the sows’ vaginas, as seen in the clip below.
Breeding sows spend most of their lives in crates so narrow they can’t even turn around. They are impregnated twice a year and their babies are taken from them in the first two to three weeks of life.
See also: Mercy for Animals – Concealed Cruelty