Employees at Seaboard, North America’s third largest pork producer, were caught on video routinely throwing, beating, kicking, slamming against concrete floors, and bludgeoning animals with metal gate rods and hammers. Other pigs were left to die slow and agonizing deaths with severe injuries, illness, and lameness, often unable to reach food or water, without even a trace of veterinary care despite the fact that Peña was fully aware of their conditions.
 
In 1999, in North Carolina, the first-ever felony indictments for cruelty to animals on a factory farm in the U.S. were issued against 3 workers after a PETA investigation into a pig breeding facility called Belcross Farm. In that case, all three workers were convicted for their parts in the beating and bludgeoning of pigs, including the skinning of a sow who was still fully conscious.
 
Both of these cases and subsequent charges represent a growing awareness for the suffering of animals on factory farms and serve as a clear reminder for the need to help directly alleviate such suffering by adopting a vegetarian diet.

What You Can Do

Please write a letter to the new district attorney thanking his office for taking cruelty to farm animals seriously and for filing the charges. Write to:

Mike Boring
District Attorney for Texas County
319 N. Main St.
Guymon, OK  73942

Don’t support this abuse—go vegan today, if you haven’t already. Write to PETA or visit GoVeg.com for a free vegetarian starter kit.
 
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