Undercover Videos of Routine Savage Abuse at Factory Pig Farms
Routine Savage Abuse at Factory Pig Farms
An Oklahoma facility that supplies hogs to Tyson, which in turn processes them into pork for Walmart. A shocking undercover investigation by Mercy For Animals exposes routine and sadistic animal abuse at a Tyson factory farm that supplies pork to Walmart. Workers kick, punch, throw and gouge the eyes of mother pigs and piglets. (Source: Mother Jones, Gagged By Big Ag, July/August 2013 Issue).
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In this video, the recordings caught one senior worker beating a sow repeatedly on the back with a metal gate rod, a supervisor turning an electric prod on a sow too crippled to stand, another worker shoving a herding cane into a sow’s vagina. In one close-up, a distressed sow who’d been attacking her piglets was shown with her face royal blue from the Prima Tech marking dye sprayed into her nostrils “to get the animal high.” In perhaps the most disturbing sequence, a worker demonstrated the method for euthanizing underweight piglets: taking them by the hind legs and smashing their skulls against the concrete floor—a technique known as “thumping.” Their bloodied bodies were then tossed into a giant bin, where video showed them twitching and paddling until they died, sometimes long after. Though his actions were not nearly as vicious as those of some coworkers who’d been fired immediately, Lyons knew, as the video quickly became national news, that the consequences for him could be severe.” But this abuse and animal cruelty can be routine on industrial farms where routine violence is conducted by workers and the business behind closed doors. (Source: Mother Jones, Gagged By Big Ag, July/August 2013 Issue).
A Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals shocking cruelty to animals at Walmart pork suppliers. Workers beat, threw and dropped mother pigs and their baby piglets. “The video documents abuse both routine and spectacular: from the awful confinement of pregnant sows into tiny spaces to men pummeling them with sheets of wood and kicking them. (Source: Mother Jones, Gagged By Big Ag, July/August 2013 Issue).
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PETA’s undercover investigation at an Iowa pig factory farm that breeds and supplies piglets to be grown and killed for Hormel products, reveals the cruelty done to these animals. During the investigation, sows were beaten, spray-painted in the face to make them high, and left to suffer from painful wounds and other conditions, and workers attempted to kill piglets by slamming their heads against the floor. Shocking undercover footage reveals that workers and management participated in the routine abuse.
Ag-Gag Laws
Ag-gag laws are state laws that forbid the act of undercover filming or photography of any activity on farms without the consent of their owner—particularly targeting whistleblowers of animal rights abuses and animal cruelty, or workers abuses done at these facilities. Ag-gag laws are fundamentally undemocratic and serve only to protect those who are abusing animals or violating the law.
Whistleblowers and undercover investigators from national animal protection organizations, with the aid of photographic evidence, have revealed abhorrent conditions on some of the largest animal farms in the United States. In many cases, what whistleblowers have revealed have amounted to serious violations of animal welfare and food safety laws. Rather than work to end the cruelest and most destructive practices that are often common on today’s animal farms, the industry has shamefully and disgracefully tried to silence and prosecute these investigators through new “Ag-Gag” laws that make documenting any abuse or cruelty–illegal. Many conservative U.S. elected officials often support such laws enacted in their state that seeks to protect one industry at the expense of the public at large, and democracy and our right to know. These laws are unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment.
Individuals and the community at large have the right to know information about their food, environmental hazards that affect their community, and workers’ welfare. Workers should have the right to reveal animal cruelty and abuse conducted at their business. But ag-gag bills are designed to punish anyone who videotapes or photographs animal cruelty, preventing any documentation of patterns of abuse. Six states have ag-gag laws now on the books including, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and North Carolina. Federal judges have struck down ag-gag laws in Idaho and Utah, declaring them unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment.
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