Undercover at Smithfield Foods (2012 Webby Award Winner)

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.
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  Pets & Animals

[Tia van Tilburg]

This is why I am a vegetarian.

[aligak4t7]

People who eat meat have nothing to do with how they're being treated in farmhouses. We are humans, we can't help it. It's NOT wrong to eat meat, it's natural. It IS WRONG to treat them the way they're been treated and most of us are against it.

[SammyFujitsu]

Ever thought about going vegan, though?

Vegetarianism is great! But by buying eggs and dairy and such, you still financially support factory farming. :( So veganism of course would help even more. :)

[WarLord645]

TO STOP THIS, GO VEGAN

if you dont want to go vegan, buy products from companies that dont use factory farms, and raise them on natural farmland, or raise animals for meat yourself

[SuperPuppyLoverXo]

OMG USING A ROPE TO PULL THEM OUT AND THEN JUST STICK A KNIFE IN THEIR HEADS???

[Sammy D]

This is Sick and the people - Corporations that farm this way are Sick !

They are trying to put small farmers out of business by saying there pigs are feral pigs and getting corrupt government to pass laws to keep the small farmer from producing pasture pigs.

The owners and families of these Corporate farms need to be put in these confined pens and left to rot - they are not humans - Large Corporations even though supposedly owned by humans are NOT Human - they are less than Swine.

[bunny893flower]

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[xTinkerBell265x]

This is why i do my own backyard homestead... Don't get me wrong, i LOVE meat. but this doesn;t mean this needs to happen!

[jesikadasko]

Is that first guy violating that pigs face? If not, what is he doing?

Nevermind, I saw his knee. I'm a little slow this morning. lol

These poor pigs. I will never buy another product from this company. All animals should be allowed to be animals, running around doing whatever it is that they do, until it's time to become meat. Even then, that shouldn't happen anywhere near where they're running around and it should be humane.

[jesikadasko]

Is that first guy violating that pigs face? If not, what is he doing?

[sandbox121]

"You are what you eat." is a tough statement, considering the topic of humane-human behaviour. Since most of us don't actually (or at least not intentionally I hope) practice cannibalism it's not that much of a difference if we were lettuce, a potatoe or a pig... Well, last can at least move actively.

[Ray Haynes]

your just as sick. U are what u eat.