Pigs Survive Hell on Highway Just to Be Abused

Last week, we released our jaw-dropping investigation into a Hormel supplier. It didn’t take long for more abuse of pigs to come to light. We recently learned of a situation that happened early this month when a truck carrying nearly 200 live pigs to a slaughterhouse overturned on the highway, trapping some pigs in the wreckage for hours. Approximately 65 pigs were killed by the impact, died from their injuries, or were killed at the site of the accident by responding workers, including employees of Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc.

As if the trauma of the accident weren’t enough, while workers were removing the surviving pigs from the scene in order to send them on to the horrors of the slaughterhouse, they pulled the terrified pigs by their ears and hit them in the face with tools that even the pork industry says should never be used to hit animals.

Abuse of pigs after a slaughter-bound truck crashes
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As Smithfield’s neighbors, we’re all too familiar with the grisly aftermath of truck crashes. These latest documented abuses clearly demonstrate that Smithfield’s self-touted “industry-leading accident response program” is ignored by a number of Murphy-Brown’s employees and ineffectively enforced by supervisors. Watch the video and decide for yourself whether Smithfield is full of hot air.

If you eat hot dogs, ham, sausage, or bacon, then you are supporting this suffering. These and other abuses are done in your name and on your dollar. Please make a conscious decision to turn up your nose at pork, because the best way to help these intelligent animals is to stop eating them.

Written by Christine Doré