Workers cursed at animals, kicked at their faces, punched them and one even bounced up and down on an animal’s broken leg during the time “Whitney Warrington” worked at Wyoming Premium Farms in Wheatland, Wyoming. And all the while, though, she was recording the abuse for the Humane Society to demonstrate the casual cruelty workers displayed to the animals they were charged with raising and bringing to slaughter.
The video isn’t just damaging for its portrayal of factory farming and gestational sow housing, in which pregnant pigs are confined to cages too small to turn around. The video also documents a variety of apparently individual abuses, including one worker hurling piglets into a wall to stun them, another pig left to suffer from prolapses for two weeks before slaughter and a third pig nudging the obviously-decayed corpses of her piglets on the factory farm floor.
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