Fox News Exclusive: Disturbing Video Shows Animal Cruelty at PA Pig Farm

Rob 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

This is not animal cruelty, it’s pig farming. If you want to cuddle pork, go to the store and buy some.

I agree with other posters. A Marxist is driving this country to communism, and FOX is worked up about this?

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Bud Gorman 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Addition: I should have mentioned calves not being in crates several years ago too.

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kmichaels 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Wonder what some folk would do if they saw a farmer applying a calf-puller on a cow ready to deliver a calf. Believe me, it is not a pretty picture.

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Will 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

“throwing them like footballs”

That would only be wrong if they were spiking them at the end of the toss .I didn’t see any dropped.

I have been in the business of animal husbandry for 50 years,and I don’t see the abuse here. The owner is absoutly correct when he says that he must take care of these animals because he can’t lose many before the profit dies off.

True abuse is the stacking of people in buildings 20 stories high,charging them $2,000 per month for a one room apartment ,and raising them as a bunch of neurotic ,politically correct ,candy pants .

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stacy 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

The pigs did look clean. Animal husbandry is not for the faint of heart and many of us benefit from the work of others. Would it be better if I shot the deer in my back yard and ate it?

As a gardener I have seen more personality in a runner bean than in most chickens I have met. Plants have feelings too! Let’s just not eat anything.

We can breath I guess . . . but don’t exhale (CO2) — it is bad for the environment.

The video that they didn’t show — I hope it didn’t show the pigs being murdered! Can’t they remove the meat without harming the animal?? Damn my taste buds. ... See all content Hide content

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RedCarolina 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

It is sad, but it must be kept in context — these people do this on a daily basis, the animals are put out of misery quickly — please, let’s not start humanizing farm animals. I’m more concerned with the well-being and mental state of the workers — they must become desensitized to the suffering of the animals and that can turn into cruelty toward people. But there is no getting around the fact that the animals need to be processed — what should the workers do? cuddle them? talk sweet to them? and then gas them? geesh, people! it’s a farm! it was unpleasant for the pigs, yes, but they aren’t there to be happy. I know a chicken farmer and it was tough to imagine what his chickens went through, crowded together and fighting for their lives — but I also care about the famers and the living they need to make. The animals are put out of their misery quickly — The farming industry has changed – farmers subcontract with name-brand companies and quantity becomes as important as quality — this is the what the market demands of them, otherwise they will not survive. Many farmers inherit family farms and this is just an adaptation for them, to deal with the product quickly and coldly. Seems cruel to us, but someone has to provide this service, lest we all become vegetarians. I think we can find much worse cruelty toward animals and people in our own neighborhoods! I say support farmers and workers first, then worry about the animals another day. The last thing we need right now is a crack-down on farming that results in more job losses!! ... See all content Hide content

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Hooter 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Frankly the village idiots who previously posted don’t realize if the farms and processing plants aren’t following proper ethical and industry practices the end result will be on your table in the end. Perhaps those jerks comments are just mother natures way of thinning the heard when these folks come down with salmonella.

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Les 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I see the footage but I know that sometimes animal rights activists will stage acts of ‘cruelty’ at night so they can film it, then they release it to the public as if it were commonplace. They have pulled this trick on primate researchers before. I grew up on a farm and knew pig farmers and know they would never handle their stock this way.

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Brietbartpiggy 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

FOX goes PETA :D :D :D

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DB 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

So you have spent your entire life in the city where you go to the grocery store to pick up your pork roast or ribeye. If that is the closest you have been to a pig or a steer, if you have never worked on a feedlot or a farm, this may look mean to you. I saw the video and I would have expected this report from PETA, not FOX!! Do you expect those workers to pet the pigs and walk them on a leash? This is a business. It may not be pretty but these are animals that are bred to be killed. The treatment that I saw was not that extreme. Picking a piglet up by the ear does not harm them. Nor does picking them up by the leg. If you need something to report about, try asking Barry why he refuses to produce his birth certificate. Why was the young man who looked at his passport records killed? I haven’t heard anything about that in the press. Is it because the arabs that own 15% of FOX stock does not want you to do any digging into Barry’s past?

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