World’s largest pork producer acting against its values

“When it comes to animal welfare policies and processes, count on us to lead the way,” reads the “Responsibility” section on the website of Smithfield Foods, the Virginia-based pork operation that is the largest in the world.

…the Humane Society released a video and report that it says are the results of an undercover investigation into a Virginia breeding facility operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield foods. As you would expect, the evidence they present is pretty grim: Piglets tossed into dumpsters, employees jabbing at a lame sow to get her to move, and pigs developing open pressure sores as a result of being “crammed” (as the report says) into gestation crates, tiny holding pens that restrict the pregnant pigs’ movement to almost nothing. 

(Source: The Atlantic)