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This video posted on YouTube shows animal activists entering a turkey barn at the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony on Labour Day. The protesters, who had been dropped off by buses, arrived early in the morning before workers from the colony were on site.

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Hutterite colony targeted by animal rights activists

Protesters weren’t part of an existing group and had no issue with the Jumbo Valley colony — other than it raises poultry 

By Alexis Kienlen September 23, 2019

Reading Time: 6 minutes On Labour Day, members of the Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony near Fort MacLeod opened their turkey barn to a scene that no farmer would want to see — their barn was filled with about three dozen animal rights activists. “They just showed up and walked right in,” said Frankie Hofer, manager of the colony’s poultry […] Read more