Breeding Misery: Inside the Pork Industry

<p>A new <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/pigs/">Mercy For Animals</a> undercover investigation reveals unconscionable cruelty to mother pigs and their young piglets at a Hatfield Quality Meat supplier - "Country View Family Farms," in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The hidden camera video provides consumers with a jarring glimpse into the nightmarish world of factory pork production.</p > <!--break--> <p><strong>MFA's investigation uncovered:</strong></p > <p>* Workers grabbing piglets by their fragile ears or legs and throwing them across the room and slamming them into transport carts.</p > <p>* Workers tattooing sows by repeatedly driving sharp metal spikes into their flesh.</p > <p>* Sows with untreated rectal prolapses and deep, infected sores and scrapes from constant rubbing against the bars of their stalls.</p > <p>* Workers cutting off piglets' tails with dull pliers and castrating them by ripping out their testes with their bare hands - all without anesthesia.</p > <p>* Thousands of pregnant pigs confined in two-feet wide metal stalls so small that they could only take one step forward or backward and could not turn around or lie down comfortably.</p > <p>* Injured, sick and runt piglets being tossed into overcrowded gassing kill carts, slowly suffocating from CO2.</p > <p>* Workers firing steel rods into sows' heads, sometimes as many as four separate times, before the sows fell and died.</p > <p>All this pain and misery so <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/pigs/">Wal-Mart, IGA Shaw's, Stop &amp; Shop, Sam's, Club, Costco, Giant and other well known food chains can sell cheap hotdogs and pork products.</a></p >

<p>A new <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/pigs/">Mercy For Animals</a> undercover investigation reveals unconscionable cruelty to mother pigs and their young piglets at a Hatfield Quality Meat supplier - "Country View Family Farms," in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The hidden camera video provides consumers with a jarring glimpse into the nightmarish world of factory pork production.</p> <!--break--><p><strong>MFA's investigation uncovered:</strong></p> <p>* Workers grabbing piglets by their fragile ears or legs and throwing them across the room and slamming them into transport carts.</p> <p>* Workers tattooing sows by repeatedly driving sharp metal spikes into their flesh.</p> <p>* Sows with untreated rectal prolapses and deep, infected sores and scrapes from constant rubbing against the bars of their stalls.</p> <p>* Workers cutting off piglets' tails with dull pliers and castrating them by ripping out their testes with their bare hands - all without anesthesia.</p> <p>* Thousands of pregnant pigs confined in two-feet wide metal stalls so small that they could only take one step forward or backward and could not turn around or lie down comfortably.</p> <p>* Injured, sick and runt piglets being tossed into overcrowded gassing kill carts, slowly suffocating from CO2.</p> <p>* Workers firing steel rods into sows' heads, sometimes as many as four separate times, before the sows fell and died.</p> <p>All this pain and misery so <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/pigs/">Wal-Mart, IGA Shaw's, Stop &amp; Shop, Sam's, Club, Costco, Giant and other well known food chains can sell cheap hotdogs and pork products.</a></p>