"When he bolted her the first time, she didn't die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run."
"The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large pigs that were at weaning age. They were left in the cart all day to trample each other, before being gassed all at once."
Read the diary and watch the video of an undercover investigator named Mike who worked at the Country View/Hatfield Quality Meats hog farm last spring http://www.mercyforanimals.org/pigs/and you're sure laws are being broken and the operation will be shut down. Wrong. There is nothing illegal in one of the most gruesome videos to circulate the Web says Mercy For Animals (MFA) who conducted the investigation, because there are no farm welfare laws to break.
As the anti-factory farming movement gains momentum, many have heard about gestation crates, enclosures so small sows can't turn around, that are banned in the European Union and some states. They have heard of tail docking and castration without anesthesia--also banned in some European countries--manure lagoons, dead piles and animals that go cage crazy from their confinement.
But who knew the euthanasia of unwanted piglets and their mothers was so primitive?
Video shows whimpering, seven pound piglets still breathing and blinking at the bottom of the death cart after being gassed with carbon dioxide hours earlier. "32 starve-outs, 16 runts, 10 ruptures, 9 poor quality, 3 deformed and 2 joint infections" were killed in five days writes Mike, who was hired to work as a barn technician last May.
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