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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released new undercover footage from a pig breeding facility in Wyoming, whose headquarters are in my own hometown, Denver. To say it’s disturbing is an understatement. The treatment of these animals is beyond the pale. It’s a factory farm, and the livestock is treated as such – parts and pieces that mean nothing. But more importantly, the cruelty of man is on full display.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=35068The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released new undercover footage from a... more
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/san-bernardino-county-cockfighting.html
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D.A. combats cockfighting with undercover video, $5,000 reward
December 6, 2011 | 9:30 am
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The San Bernardino County district attorney's office went multimedia in its efforts to combat cockfighting.
The district attorney's office released a video about the illegal blood sport in which roosters with blades strapped to their feet fight to the death. The six-minute video includes "undercover footage" of cockfighting matches provided by the Humane Society of the United States.
The video posts an offer of a $5,000 reward by the Humane Society to those who report cockfighting.
The district attorney's office has prosecuted 43 cockfighting cases in San Bernardino County in the last year. Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states, but California is one of 11 states where it is a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
"One of the ways that a society should be judged is by how they treat their animals. I truly believe that," San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Michael Ramos said in the video.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — An animal-rights group released a video Tuesday showing an upstate New York farm worker lopping off a calf's tail and burning off its budding horns as the animal moans and struggles frantically to escape, prompting a state lawmaker to propose that New York follow California's lead in banning tail-docking for dairy cows.
The video was recorded in an undercover investigation at one of New York's largest dairy farms, according to Chicago-based Mercy For Animals, a not-for-profit group that publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/cow-torture-video-willet-_n_438403.htmlALBANY, N.Y. — An animal-rights group released a video Tuesday showing an... more
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More videos keep showing the disgusting reality that lurks behind mass farming.
This time is about Dunkin' Donuts egg supplier.
Here an excerpt from the article:
"In August 2009, a Compassion Over Killing investigator worked inside an egg factory farm in Minnesota owned by Michael Foods, one of the nation's largest egg producers. While employed there, the investigator used a hidden camera to document horrific abuses including:
- Hens immobilized in the wires of their cages, unable to access food or water
- Decomposing and "mummified" corpses left in cages with live birds..."
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Undercover Video by PETA shows circus elephants and other animals being beaten.
An animal-rights group has released a video showing what it says is the abuse of circus elephants.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has released what it says is a secretly recorded video showing Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus handlers striking the animals backstage.
PETA said someone affiliated with the group made the four-minute video during a circus tour this year.
The recording shows circus trainers using bullhooks - tools with handles weighing between 1.8 and 3.6 kilograms and pointed metal hooks - to strike elephants across the face, legs and body.
In one section of the video, a trainer curses at an elephant then strikes it with a bullhook while telling it to "back up".
Circus spokeswoman Amy McWethy denied PETA's claims.
"Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey loves its elephants," she said.
Bullhooks "are used harmlessly by elephant trainers throughout the world", she said.
Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus, called the video "questionable in its context regarding the portrayal of circus animal handlers".
It said the circus was in compliance with federal, state and local regulations at the time PETA says the video was made.
"Ringling Bros is proud of its efforts to care for and increase the population of the endangered Asian elephant and we encourage people to come see for themselves that the animals are thriving in our care," the company said.Undercover Video by PETA shows circus elephants and other animals being beaten.
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WASHINGTON – An Iowa sheriff said Wednesday he has launched an investigation into a videotape showing abuse of pigs at a farm.
The video, shot by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, shows farm workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor and bragging about jamming rods into sows' hindquarters. Greene County Sheriff Tom Heater told The Associated Press that he had met with PETA representatives on Tuesday. "They provided us with what appears to be some really good information," he said. "Our next step is to secure interviews with potential suspects, and definitely make sure that there's no further abuse occurring down there; that's our main concern at this point." --when asked if crimes had been committed, Heater responded, "It appears that there were, yes."
On the video, obtained by The AP, a supervisor tells an undercover PETA investigator that when he gets angry or a sow won't move, "I grab one of these rods and jam it in her (anus)."
The farm, located outside of Bayard, Iowa, about 60 miles west of Des Moines, is a supplier to Hormel Foods of Austin, Minn. PETA wants to use the results of the investigation to pressure Hormel, the maker of Spam and other food products, to demand that its suppliers ensure humane treatment of pigs.
Hormel spokeswoman Julie Henderson Craven called the incidents "completely unacceptable."
PETA is seeking prosecution of 18 people on animal cruelty violations. According to PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich, the video shows eight people directly abusing animals.
"Abuse on factory farms is the absolute norm, not the exception, and anyone eating factory-farmed meat is paying to support it," Friedrich said.
After getting a whistleblower complaint from someone inside the farm, PETA sent two undercover investigators to get hired at the farm and document its practices; one from June 10 to Sept. 8, and the other from July 23 to Sept. 11.
At one point on the video, an employee shouts to an investigator, "Hurt 'em! There's nobody works for PETA out here. You know who PETA is?" The undercover PETA investigator replies that he's heard of the group "I hate them. These (expletives) deserve to be hurt. Hurt, I say!," the employee yells as he hits a sow with a metal rod. "Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! ... Take out your frustrations on 'em." He encourages the investigator to pretend that one of the pigs scared off a voluptuous and willing 17- or 18-year-old girl, and then beat the pig for it.
Natural Pork Production II referred questions to AMVC Management Services, which managed the farm under its ownership. Mark Jones, AMVC's network manager, said the video showed "unacceptable practices" and that his company is working with the new ownership to investigate.
Craven, the Hormel spokeswoman, said the farm became a Hormel supplier only after the change in ownership, and that MowMar "shares our commitment to animal welfare and humane handling. Our industry is committed to handling pigs humanely," she said. "My industry is full of good people."
At one point in the video, workers are shown slamming piglets on the ground, a practice designed to instantly kill those baby pigs that aren't healthy enough. But on the video, the piglets are not killed instantly, and in a bloodied pile, some piglets can be seen wiggling vainly. The video also shows piglets being castrated, and having their tails cut off, without anesthesia.
Temple Grandin, a leading animal welfare expert who serves as a consultant to the livestock industry, said that while those are standard industry practices, the treatment of the sows on the video was far from it.
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Caution! Disturbing Video
PetaTV UNDERCOVER VIDEO OF TURKISH HORSE SLAUGHTER:
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The death of frightened horses are violently dragged to the ground.
PETA received undercover video recordings, the horrific cruelty to animals in the magnificent horses from the Turkish government maintained Refik Saydam Hygiene Center (RSHC).
The video shows shocking images of violent wehrenden horses, with ropes violently dragged to the ground, then to provide them with a scalpel with full awareness of the neck aufzuschlitzen.
Workers tie the horses legs firmly against the body, in order to step up fluchtunfähig to make and sit on the horses to panic wehrenden to keep it below.
Lute the absolute fear of death and angstvolles quake show that the horses in the whole procedure, sometimes hours, with full awareness. Then let the horses bleed to death and finally grind their bloody body out to them at the roadside abzuwerfen.
'Horses in Turkey bled to death' - http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.peta.de/tierversuche/pferde_in_der_trkei_zu_tode_geblutet.211.html&usg=ALkJrhibJ84axaAPJMHtQJONAc9OGqrjHA
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