While the world's biggest pigkiller, Smithfield Foods of Virginia, has gestation
crates for pigs which have been outlawed in the EU, its crates continue
in the US and 3 states in Mexico.
crates for pigs which have been outlawed in the EU, its crates continue
in the US and 3 states in Mexico.
Tell Smithfield No More Gestation Crates
An HSUS undercover investigator recently documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, in Waverly, Virginia. Gestation crates are exceptionally cruel and have been banned by the European Union, New Zealand and seven U.S. states. In 2007, Smithfield said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017, yet in 2009 it said it could no longer meet its self-imposed and very lenient deadline.
Many of these highly intelligent and inquisitive pigs develop pressure sores and infections from crate-related injuries and from simply lying in the same position without relief. Out of sheer boredom, they engage in repetitive behaviors — such as bar biting and head swaying — sometimes injuring themselves in the process.
TAKE ACTION AND WATCH VIDEO
Please send C. Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield, this message urging him to recommit to the company's original promise and stop the use of these inhumane gestation crates on Smithfield's factory farms by 2017.
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&id=4791&page=UserAction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mIqnHZHqk Nephew of slain President Kennedy, son of
slain Attorney General Robert Kennedy, speaks on Smithfield.
Worldwide: Smithfield's pig gestation crates... includes video Corporation breaks its promise
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&id=4791&page=UserAction
Gestation crates are exceptionally cruel and have been banned by the European Union, New Zealand and seven U.S. states. In 2007, Smithfield said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017, yet in 2009 it said it could no longer meet its self-imposed and very lenient deadline.
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/lhn_pigs.html
Smithfield trying to acquire Sara Lee's European slaughterhouse products division
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/493944/smithfield_works_on_deal_for_sara_lee_meat_division/index.html
An HSUS undercover investigator recently documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, in Waverly, Virginia. Gestation crates are exceptionally cruel and have been banned by the European Union, New Zealand and seven U.S. states. In 2007, Smithfield said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017, yet in 2009 it said it could no longer meet its self-imposed and very lenient deadline.
Many of these highly intelligent and inquisitive pigs develop pressure sores and infections from crate-related injuries and from simply lying in the same position without relief. Out of sheer boredom, they engage in repetitive behaviors — such as bar biting and head swaying — sometimes injuring themselves in the process.
TAKE ACTION AND WATCH VIDEO
Please send C. Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield, this message urging him to recommit to the company's original promise and stop the use of these inhumane gestation crates on Smithfield's factory farms by 2017.
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&id=4791&page=UserAction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mIqnHZHqk Nephew of slain President Kennedy, son of slain Attorney General Robert Kennedy, speaks on Smithfield.
Worldwide: Smithfield's pig gestation crates... includes video Corporation breaks its promise
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&id=4791&page=UserAction Gestation crates are exceptionally cruel and have been banned by the European Union, New Zealand and seven U.S. states. In 2007, Smithfield said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017, yet in 2009 it said it could no longer meet its self-imposed and very lenient deadline.
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/lhn_pigs.html Smithfield trying to acquire Sara Lee's European slaughterhouse products division
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/493944/smithfield_works_on_deal_for_sara_lee_meat_division/index.html
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UK one of 5 countries in which Smithfield operates
22.02.2011 22:57
Mexico and the US. In the US Smithfield has caused a Biblical plague of pfiesteria, or red tide,
from its zillions of gallons of pig waste dumped into NC and Virginia rivers and then into the
Atlantic.
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