PETA has released a video documenting animal abouse in a factory farm supplying pigs for Hormel Foods.  The video documents piglets being slammed to the ground and sows being abused at the hands of workers.  Some of the abouse documented includes:

(from peta.org)

• A supervisor shoved a cane into a sow’s vagina, struck her on the back about 17 times, and then struck another sow.
• Multiple pigs were beaten with metal gate rods, and lacerations were found on more than 30 sows - which is probably evidence of more abuse.
• A worker hit a young pig in the face four times with the edge of a herding board, and investigators witnessed dozens of similar incidents involving this worker and 11 other workers.
• Two men - including a supervisor - were witnessed jabbing clothespins into pigs’ eyes and faces. A supervisor also poked two animals in the eyes with his fingers.
• A supervisor kicked a young pig in the face, abdomen, and genitals to make her move and told PETA’s investigator, “You gotta beat on the bitch. Make her cry.”
• A worker who weighed an estimated 315 lbs. punched a sow on the back three times and said that he sat on a sow’s head.

We all know that factory farms create horror for animals everyday and even when they are caught people never get the picture and realize it is wrong.  I know people I could show this video to and they would respond with “They’re going to be eaten anyway!”.  People disgust me.

Graphic video: