Undercover at Smithfield Foods

An investigator from The Humane Society of the United States documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.

Copyright 2010

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Pets & Animals

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• piglets
• baby pigs
• factory farming
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[limbdarkening]

You can still eat meat and care about the well being of animals. I grew up on a farm where we raise animals for food and all out animals are very well taken care of.

[cricket279]

We can live perfectly well without harming other animals. Go vegan.

[Michformer]

Thank god I get my pork tenderloin from Belgium. Otherwise, I might have gone organic!

Still, for me, a well-treated pig should be the norm EVERYWHERE!

[fatcowsrcool]

im vegan for a reson

[TheProgressiveHead]

Wanna solve all this problems related to animal breeding for slaughter? STOP EATING MEAT!!!

Im so sick of this fallacious arguments saying that animals can be bread and killed in a nice human and ethical way. THERE'S NO ETHICS IN THIS INDUSTRY, animals live in suffering just to be killed and end up in a supermarket shelf.

GO VEGAN!!!! <3

[nick4leader]

@ChunkyJunkyJewelry I don't think the farrowing crates are what they are getting at. from what i can tell with those huge companies is they inseminate the sow and lock her in a gestation crate until it's time to farrow when she moves to a farrowing crate and once weaning is done gets bred as soon as possible again. I have mine roaming around until right before farrowing and I feed outside the crate so they get out but I can see how gestation crates are bad.

[BaylorSports]

@myownspiritlevel You are wise to ask such questions. This is a heavy propaganda film edited to make it look at bad as possible. Most pork producers do whatever they can to care for their animals since it is their source of income. Why would they purposely want to hurt their production?

[djbethell]

@llamacarlito *continues to be a complete narcissistic and soulless parasite*

[MYAMERICANPSYCHO]

Pigs are ugly. People should not put ugly things inside themselves. Stop eating ugly animals.

[nsugathadasa]

@Ingrownsage Very good to have acknowledged that. Hope you can someday find courage to reduce or stop eating them completely. It is the demand for cheap meat that drives these induastries. All the best.

[Ingrownsage]

Yes I enjoy eating pig, however I would enjoy it a more if I knew it had a somewhat enjoyable life. No one deserves to live like this, even if it's just going to die.

[lachimnamlok]

No, I am not going to be a part of this cruelty.