Undercover video recorded by an animal rights activist at one of the
largest U.S. pork producers appears to show pigs being beaten and
dragged across the slaughterhouse floor as workers cheer and throw
blood-soaked towels at one another.
An edited version of the video, posted to YouTube on Wednesday,
shows pigs covered in feces and riddled with puss-filled sores headed
for the production line. It also shows numerous pigs that appear to be
conscious and shaking in pain as they are being slaughtered. Federal law
requires livestock to be stunned before they are killed.
"That one was definitely alive," one male employee, whose face is
intentionally blurred in the video, shouts as pig carcasses move down a
conveyor belt. "If USDA is around, they could shut us down," a man who
appears to be the same employee says later, referring to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, which regulates meat processors.
READ MORE:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undercover-slaughterhouse-video-pigs_5643995be4b08cda348724c3
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
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