Animal rights activists hold peaceful vigil outside Hanover turkey plant

October 13, 2021 @ 1:49 pmLocal News, News, Rural, Walkerton Herald-Times

Local animal rights activist Bobbi Schmidt was joined by about 20 others on Friday, Oct. 8 outside the turkey plant in Hanover to hold a vigil for the turkeys killed for Thanksgiving. (Pauline Kerr photo)
HANOVER – “Turkeys are sentient beings,” said Jenn Deighan-Schenk, one of a group of animal rights activists who held a vigil on Oct. 8 outside the Hanover turkey processing plant for the turkeys killed for Thanksgiving. “They have the capacity to suffer,” she continued, pointing at the facility on the other side of the road.…
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Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.