WARNING: Graphic Pig Farm Video November 16, 2009
Posted by Ryan at November 16, 2009 4:46 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 13 ) | TrackBack
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Brace yourselves, because this is a tough one ...
Here at PETA, we're used to undercover investigators documenting the gruesome final moments that animals face in slaughterhouses. Surely this suffering alone is reason enough not to want to eat them.
The latest undercover investigation from our friends in Mercy for Animals takes a look at the cruelty animals—in this case, pigs—suffer before their throats are slit. The investigator documented workers hurling baby pigs and slamming them into transport carts; picking piglets up by their ears and tails; cutting off the animals' tails with pliers, and ripping off their testicles with bare hands and without painkillers (the sound of screaming piglets in the video made my skin crawl). Their squealing mothers are shown scrambling to escape workers who slam spiked mallets into the animals' sides.
This is a brutal video to watch, but I ask that you witness for yourself what happens behind the scenes—because these animals need your voices more than ever.
Once you've watched the video, please take the time to comment with the one word that you would use to describe what you saw.
I'm going to go with "despicable."
New Undercover Investigation: Chicks Ground Up Alive September 1, 2009
Posted by Ryan at September 1, 2009 11:47 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 152 ) | TrackBack
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The Chicago-based group Mercy for Animals has just released a shocking new undercover investigation, which documents male chicks being ground up alive in an egg industry hatchery. You see, because male chicks don't lay eggs—which means lost profits for the corporations—the industry doesn't consider them worth keeping alive.
Of course, I could describe this inexcusable cruelty until I'm blue in the face, but the video says it all:
Pretty horrific, right? It's important to note that this is a routine practice for both regular AND commercial free-range, cage-free, and organic eggs. Think free-range means cruelty-free? Think again.
What do you think: If you wouldn't grind up chicks alive—is it any more acceptable to pay other people to do it for you?
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