An undercover investigator for Mercy for Animals notes that nothing could prepare him for what he saw during a ten-week undercover investigation in a pig factory farm.
Pregnant pigs were confined to filthy metal crates barely larger than their own bodies; piglets had their testicles and tails removed without painkillers; pigs with raw wounds and crippling deformities were left to suffer; and piglets were being slammed against concrete floors. The filth, the smell, the screams — all unimaginable.
To the pork industry, these are all standard practices — or deeds that occur under the blind eye of management. The public must be made aware of the animal abuse that occurs in factory farms when the doors are locked tight and abusers don’t think they are being watched. Exposing this truth is the only hope to create real, meaningful change for animals, including veal calves, dairy cows, laying hens. Since male chicks cannot lay eggs, they are a mere byproduct of the industry. Millions a day are ground alive into chicken feed.
It is up to us to make changes to factory farms. Contact your legislator (or favorite factory farm) and ask that this form of animal cruelty be investigated and stopped. Also, remember to cast your very personal “vote” by refusing to purchase meat from factory farms — or provide personal dietary changes toward vegetarianism to support your health and longevity.
Animal cruelty needs to stop, one meal at a time. Please consider “Meatless Mondays.”
Kimberly Miller
Fountain Hills
VofReason posted at 1:27 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.
OK. With all of the spending our Federal Government does, you are telling me there is no agency in the Farm Bureau or the USDA that isn't suppose to be all over this? How about this, why don't you find out who should be ensuring this doesn't happen and get that video and the address of the Factory Farm to them? Hey and while we have the public fired up, why don't you get your undercover investigator to take a trip to an abortion clinic. Wonder what may prepare him/her for what they might find there?
Arizona Willie posted at 1:44 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.
VofReason, there are agencies and laws against this sort of thing. Trouble is Republican Congressmen refuse to vote funding for enforcement.
Republicans own the farms.
Republicans don't like government interference.
Republicans have stated their hatred for government over and over.
Vote Democratic if you want to see funding for agencies that are supposed to enforce the laws. Republicans will NEVER enforce laws because that costs money.
VofReason posted at 2:15 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.
Thank you Willie for again pointing out that it is all due to the evil Republicans. So in reality, even though every person who works for the federal Agency gets a paycheck each pay period, it is because the republicans have actually hualted the "funding" necessary for them to do their jobs. This logic makes further sense now that you have explained that only Republicans own farms and want to of course continue to torture animals to death. How could I have been so silly? So by the same logic can we then infur that Democrats own all the abortion clinics and then funnel all the dollars they can into killing more babies?
Leon Ceniceros posted at 2:46 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.
If you want to see what veganism is all about, look no further that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Our broccoli-chomping First Lady will tell you all about it. Be sure to admire her latisimus dorsi (I wouldn't mention the gluteous maximi though....it's a "sore spot"...lol).
The Chinese and the Indians (India) were mainly vegan societies in the past but now that they have a few dimes to rub together...it's "Super-Size Me" time. They can't get enough American or Australian beef and pork...chicken (unless it's KFC) is for poor people. So much for ....VEGANISM. It's only alive in the minds of American and European hippies and yuppie wanna-be's. You know the "Hemp Generation"....lol.
truth posted at 3:07 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.
Troubling news about tainted pork: The nonprofit orginaization Consumer Reports tested nearly 200 supermarket pork samples and found that 69% harbored the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica, which causes food poisoning and is the specially likley to infect children. Some 11% of the samples contained enterococci-a sign of fecal contamination-and between 3 and 7% hosted salmonella, staph, of listeria, all of which can cause serious illnesses. Researchers were particularly troubled that 90% of the bacteria found in pork were resistant to at least one antibiotic: 3 of the samepes had bacteria that were resistant to 5 antibiotics. Farmers routinely feed low levals of antibiotics to their livestock to make them plumper and keep them healthy, but "this practice promotes the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which are a major public-health concern."
Arizona Willie posted at 7:32 am on Thu, Feb 7, 2013.
VofReason: most of the big farm states Utah, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri are REPUBLICAN.
Most farmers are registered REPUBLICANS. Sure there are Democrats among them, but they keep it to themselves because they would be very unpopular if it were known they voted Democrat.
The shortfunding of regulatory agencies like the FDA and OSHA is legendary. They aren't given enough funds to hire even 1/3 of the enforcement agents that would be necessary to do the job right.
Republican politicians didn't want to pay for all the inspectors needed in the meat / poultry industry so they set it up so those inspectors are paid by the companies they are supposed to be inspecting. Really smart move, eh? No corruption there, move along folks.
chuckles3 posted at 3:25 pm on Thu, Feb 7, 2013.
I am sure the author shares the same concerns for the treatment of a human being. Except when it is being aborted. Please consider 'abortion-free Mondays".
Arizona Willie posted at 9:09 am on Fri, Feb 8, 2013.
Kimberly Miller: well, I did consider " meatless Mondays ".
I considered them RIDICULOUS.
VofReason posted at 1:06 pm on Fri, Feb 8, 2013.
Again, if there are 3 inspectors at the USDA, why couldn't one of them stumble on to the same "horrific" find that this undercover vegan did? Why do we have them if they cannot find the exact things that they are therefore. This is dunderhead reasoning at it's finest. I am sure we are funneling Billions of dollars to both the Farm Bearuea and USDA yearly and someone wants to cry lack of funding as a reason that they cannot fulfill their primary purpose. Alomost sounds like Education in America.
truth posted at 3:40 pm on Fri, Feb 8, 2013.
This is for Chuckles and other far right who are against birth control and abortions. What are your solutions to this devistation to children, please state facts or even adopt yoursef, second thought forget adoption on your part .In the U.S. 423,000 children are living without permanent families
in the foster care system. 115,000 of these children are eligible for adoption, but nearly 40% of these children will wait over three years in foster care before being adopted. Around the world, there are an estimated 163 million orphans who have lost one parent. There are 13 million orphans who have lost both parents and are living in orphanages or on the streets and lack the care and attention required for healthy development. These children are at risk for disease, malnutrition, and death.
U.S. families adopted more than 12,700 children through intercountry adoption
in fiscal year 2009. China is the top sending country, followed by Ethiopia, Russia, South Korea, and Guatemala. Intercountry adoption has been on the decline since its peak in 2004 at 22,990 adoptions.
Arizona Willie posted at 8:02 am on Sat, Feb 9, 2013.
VofReason: you ask why the inspectors couldn't find the violations?
Because, as I said in another post, inspectors in the meat / poultry industry are paid by the company they are supposed to be inspecting. Usually, the inspectors have an office right at the plant.
Being paid by the people you inspect is NOT a good idea --- unless one wants to encourage bribery.
VofReason posted at 12:29 pm on Tue, Feb 12, 2013.
I know that circular logic is commonplace in the echo chamber of liberalism, but it doesn't work in the real world. For Willie, there are inspectors hired by the USDA etc to watch this, they are government workers, paid by taxpayers. If this situatiion is so horrific, why don't someone point them there (heck they can read this above too right). If they don't do their job and stop it, why do they have a job? Why would we continue to fund a sham and pay them. For Truth, because one does not adopt does not then mean you agree with abortion instead. Additionally, I don't know who on the"right" is against contraception, except where it means that someone else needs to pay for it. Here is a thought, why cannot people take responsibility for themselves? Condoms- $.50 a peice? Where is the problem?
VofReason posted at 12:30 pm on Tue, Feb 12, 2013.
Or is the assuption that some people are too stupid to pay 2 bits to prevent an unwanted or unable to pay for pregnancy?