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Full story: News.com.au, Australia
Undercover animal activists have filmed horrific scenes of cruelty to farm pigs. The incidents include workers slamming piglets on floors and leaving them still wriggling to die, beating animals to death with metal rods and inserting rods into sows’ hindquarters. Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posed as workers between June and September this year at a farm in the midwestern U.S. state of Iowa, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The video shows a worker viciously beating pigs with a metal rod while shouting to one of the PETA spies: “I hate them. These (expletives) deserve to be hurt. Hurt, I say!” “Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! … Take out your frustrations on ‘em,” the employee yells as he swings the rod. Workers are also shown slamming piglets on t he ground, to instantly kill those that aren’t healthy enough. However, the video displays piglets surviving the treatment and lying wiggling in a bloodied pile. . . “Abuse on factory farms is the absolute norm, not the exception, and anyone eating factory-farmed meat is paying to support it,” PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich said to AP. |