Undercover at Smithfield Foods

[harvey007]

Run time: 03:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vqIGTKuQE   Posted on YouTube: December 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: hsus Views on YouTube: 396   Posted on DU: December 16, 2010 By DU Member: harvey007 Views on DU: 954

 
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-pig-abuse-company,0,5133033.story


RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday that an undercover worker at a farm owned by the world's largest pork producer saw breeding pigs abused and crammed into small gestation crates.

The animal welfare organization released the results of a monthlong undercover investigation at a Waverly, Va., factory farm owned by Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc. Murphy-Brown is Smithfield's livestock production subsidiary and is the world's largest producer of pigs for slaughter. The Humane Society called on Smithfield to renew its commitment to phasing out the crates.

Photos and video from the investigation showed about 1,000 large female pigs crammed into metal crates that severely limited their ability to move. The pigs stay in the crates, also called sow stalls, during their four-month pregnancies. Afterward, they are moved for about three weeks to a crate large enough to nurse their piglets before being artificially inseminated and placed back into the gestation crates.

[BonnieJW]

1. Has anyone mentioned this

to Paula Deen?

[jayschool]

2. If you eat pork

I'd suggest Niman Ranch pork.

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/bill-niman-an-all-natural-pig-farming-rock-star/Content?oid=1195017

[lumpy]

3. My God, we treat our pets more humanely, but we don't eat our

pets,do we.

[bertman]

4. I love pork, but I refuse to buy it at a grocery store. Local farmers raise it

in pastures with no antibiotics and no hormones.

Smithfield abuses its workers as well. They were the company featured in "Food, Inc" that hires illegal immigrants and treats them like serfs.

Thanks for posting this, harvey007.

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. CONTACT SMITHFIELDS WITH YOUR OPINON

http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/contact/default.aspx

we share because we care

[JJW]

6. WTF?

How could anyone eat those sick animals? You are what you eat! Buy from you local family farmer.

[indimuse]

7. warning!

This will happen to YOU if you continue to support this kind of treatment to animalz~much less eat them!!!!



edit::wrong pic!!

[JDPriestly]

8. Thanks for posting this.

Now we know what kind of pork to buy to bring us luck in the New Year.

This is good information.