Animal advocacy organization Mercy for Animals (MFA) released gut-wrenching undercover footage today documenting repeated acts of animal abuse inside Tosh Farms – a Kentucky pig farm supplying pork to JBS, the largest meat company in the world.
The treatment of mother pigs and piglets within the facility is nothing short of appalling, with workers kicking and punching animals in their heads, viciously smashing piglets onto the ground to kill them, and tearing the testicles from piglets without any form of pain relief.
The video also shows sows confined in cruel “gestation cages” so tiny that they can’t turn around or comfortably lie down. The pigs are held in these cages for most of their lives.
MFA is asking JBS to remove factory farms such as this from their supply chains and calling on the mega-meat company to ban gestation crates from all of their suppliers.
“Locked inside these tiny torture chambers, pregnant pigs languish in their own misery as the years slowly pass by,” MFA Director of Communications Kenny Torrella told Lady Freethinker. “These curious animals lose their minds from boredom and stress. It’s time for JBS to end the extreme confinement of farmed animals, and put an end to mutilations without pain relief, throughout its entire global supply chain.”
JBS is a worldwide conglomerate with slaughterhouses in more than 20 countries. They are responsible for the death of around 28 million pigs every year.
Although the company has said they will phase out gestation crates in their homeland of Brazil, they have made no such commitment in the US.
The findings from this undercover investigation are especially timely, with Prop 12 coming up for public vote in California this November. Although gestation crates are banned in the state, meat can still be shipped to California from farms using these inhumane cages. MFA is urging Californian voters to support Proposition 12 – also known as the Prevention of Cruelty to Farmed Animals Act – to help ensure that all meat and eggs sold in California meet minimal animal welfare standards.
“Californians should vote yes this November on Prop 12 to abolish cages for farmed animals. This historic measure will be the strongest farmed animal protection law in the nation, and reduce the suffering of millions of animals each year,” said Torrella.
With regards to the shocking abuses at Tosh Farms, MFA is filing a complaint with the Simpson County District Attorney’s Office.
“If JBS executives abused even one dog or cat the way their suppliers abuse millions of pigs, they would be jailed for cruelty to animals,” said Matt Rice, President of MFA. “As the largest meat company in the world, JBS has the power and responsibility to end this torture.”
Has anything changed ???? Are we all wasting our time ???? Tosh Farms still trading?? Let’s keeping sharing !!
This must stop! What is wrong with people!!
People with small minds that don’t deserve to live.
There is never an excuse for abusing animals. Shows that some people just don’t deserve to live.
It’s horicfic I’m so SORRY POOR ANIMAL’S RIP babies
People are the worst breed
I am a UK citizen and am appalled at some of the cruelty I read about in the United States. In certain States there seems to be no concern for animal welfare. You are not a Third world country and need to be a voice for these poor animals. There was a case in the UK last year of two or three farm workers kicking and beating pigs (this was filmed secretly by another farm worker on his phone) and people were outraged when this came to light. The owner immediately fired the workers responsible and installed CCTV so that this would not happen again.
THIS IS NOT FARMING, IT’S INHUMANE ABUSE FOR NO REASON. DANGEROUS PEOPLE.
Beware: Proposition 12 is an outright scam. There is widespread opposition to Prop 12 from within the animal protection community. And for very good reason. This measure was co-written by United Egg Producers and would explicitly legalize cruel battery cages in California until at least 2022. And it would forever confine hens inside massive factory farms that restrict hens to only one square foot floor space per bird!
No one should fall for HSUS’s bogus claims that this it will regulate the sale and production of veal and pork from other states. That cynical and constitutionally flawed window dressing will never survive the inevitable years of legal challenges. It was only inserted into the initiative to distract from its massive sell-out to the egg industry.
Find out why Californians Against Cruelty, Cages, and Fraud, the Humane Farming Association (HFA), Friends of Animals (FoA), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and many others are strongly opposing the measure.
I hope these barbarians rot in hell for all eternity, and the same treatment is meted out to them.
This has left me in tears, screaming at these devils who are doing these things to the poor defenceless pigs. I do not live in the US but I sincerely hope the California people vote for Proposition 12. This is satanic cruelty and must be stopped by law. How unspeakable this cruelty is. It goes beyond description.
These people need shutting down,NOW!.
these poor animals need justice, we need to stand up for them and fight.
Protect them from people who are insane.
Please sign this petition, asking Kroger to stop using those horrible gestation crates..
https://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/ask-kroger-protect-pigs
What is wrong with these nut jobs today. What is wrong with people all over the world anymore. This idiotic JBS company is going to phase out gestation crates in brazil but not here in america, WHY NOT? America doesn’t seem to do or want to do anything right at all compared to other countries. I am so appalled at the way animals are being horrifically abused and tortured. The meat trade businesses are evil monsters that have no compassion for these living, feeling, thinking, creatures. Just because you are in that business doesn’t mean you have to be cruel about it. It is bad enough you are putting these animals to their death, you don’t have to cause them to suffer beforehand. You employees that work for these companies must be really proud of yourselves for being the kind of people who can carry out such horrendous actions against these animals. Whatever made you feel that it is ok to treat an animal that way and what is the purpose of torturing them? I so wish I had the power to zap each and every one of you off the planet. These animals at least deserve to be treated in a humane way before they are shipped to a slaughterhouse. If you people have a problem with treating animals humanely, then get out of the business…..MORONS. No need of trying to appeal to the governments either, because they are just as bad and idiotic as anyone. They allow these practices to go on and don’t care to do anything about them to make things better for these animals. Asking the government and the laws to make things better for these animals is like asking a crocodile to bark. That is the shame America…….they just don’t humanly care. So sad.
FACT: Pigs are more intelligent than dogs. FACT: Pigs are highly emotional creatures. FACT: Pigs are higher on the food chain than these torturing abusers at Tosh Farms. Re-release the movie “Babe” and grow a heart. And boycott all pork products, people!
Don’t Ignore Their Suffering.
We should never stop helping animals in need