Mrs. Totem used to work at a turkey farm/processing plant. She tells me they don't cut the beaks off, they burn them off. Grab the chick from the assembly line, jam it's beak into a hole with electric contacts, brrzzzzZZZZT!, toss the dazed and smoking little bird down on the conveyor belt and grab the next one, ad infinitum till the plant shuts down at 5:00 pm.
It's the talons they cut off, so as to prevent them from scratching each other when fighting for food.
Totem