Five former employees of a pig breeding farm in Wheatland that supplies pork to Tyson Foods have been convicted of animal cruelty and sentenced to probation and fines. An undercover investigator for HSUS took footage showing workers kicking live piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and kicking them when they showed reluctance to leave their offspring.
Although the unimaginable pain and suffering endured by these animals
certainly deserved much tougher sentences and fines, the fact that these
cases made the spotlight has helped expose the routine victimization of
God’s animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses.
For this cruelty to end a transition to a plant-based diet is imperative.
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