Pork Industry Animal Abuse Investigation (Mercy For Animals)

“A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation provides a shocking look into one of the nation’s largest pork producers -- Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. At this factory farm, mother sows and their piglets are forced to suffer brutal abuse and lives of unrelenting confinement and misery. Between April and June of 2011, an MFA investigator documented: - Mother sows confined to barren metal crates barely larger than their own bodies -- unable to turn around or lie down comfortably for nearly their entire lives - Workers ripping out the testicles of conscious piglets without the use of painkillers - Piglets suffering with herniated intestines, due to botched castration - Conscious piglets having their tails painfully sliced into and yanked off with dull clippers - Large, open, pus-filled wounds and pressure sores - Sick and injured pigs left to languish and slowly die without proper veterinary care - Mother pigs -- physically taxed from cons