PAC'ing is an industry term meaning Pounded Against Concrete.
O.pearl
Just one of thousands of piglets that are PAC'ed at intensive pig operations
each week in Canada.
PAC'ing is an industry term meaning Pounded Against Concrete. The piglet
is grabbed by his or her hind legs and has their head smashed into the
concrete. This is all done in front of the piglet's helpless mother.
Because sows have been genetically selected to have unnaturally large litters,
the 2 smallest (or "shakers" as industry calls them as they are unsteady on
their feet) are PAC'ed.
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CETFA - Canadian for Ethical Treatment of Food Ani says:
I know a lot of you are having difficulty with learning of this. What I'm
about to tell you, I'm afraid, will make it worse.
Many times the piglets don't die, yet are thrown in the bin still-struggling
and suffering. Rendering companies come by once a week to dump the
bins to bring back to the rendering company. Sometimes the drivers
discover the still-live piglets. It's such a problem one rendering company in
Ontario has had to install a camera in the bucket hooked up to a monitor
in the cab so they can see the still-moving piglets and dispatch them.
Letters were also sent by a rendering company to all Ontario Pork
producers reminding them to please ensure the piglets were dead before
throwing them in the bin. (The practice happens straight across Canada
- not just in Ontario)
We know the problem is continuing though as we've seen heavy bruising
on the heads of many piglets (bruising can only occur if the heart is still
pumping blood to the surface).
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cetfa/3771320870/
Derek
Slamming piglets against the wall and hanging full grown hogs
by the neck (pictured) until dead is "the commonplace reality
of producing livestock for consumption." according to "Ken Wiles
and other members of the tight-knit Ohio farming community."
[Three years in the making, DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM
follows the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm by the
animal rights group The Humane Farming Association (HFA),
and the resulting court case against it. The organization received
a tip from an employee at the farm that animals were being
abused, including a claim that hogs were being hung by chains
and strangled to death as a form of euthanasia. HFA then turned
to an undercover investigator (also featured in "Dealing Dogs")
going by the name "Pete," who wore a hidden camera while he
worked as a farmhand at Wiles.
Over the course of six weeks, Pete secretly filmed numerous
disturbing scenes, including piglets being tossed into crates from
across a room, impregnated sows held in pens that don't allow
them to move, an unhealthy piglet being slammed against a wall
to euthanize it, and a sick sow being hung by a chain from a
forklift until it choked to death. Having obtained this key
evidence, Pete concluded the investigation and quit his job.
HFA brought the footage to the Wayne County Sheriff's
Department, which subsequently raided the farm. Prosecutors
filed ten criminal charges of animal cruelty against Ken Wiles
(the owner of the farm), his son Joe, and Dusty Stroud, a farm
employee who participated in hanging the sow.
In the trial that followed, prosecution and defense waged a tense
battle over the legality and morality of practices rarely seen by the
public and described by the presiding judge as "distasteful and
offensive," but defended by Ken Wiles and other members of
the tight-knit Ohio farming community as the commonplace reality
of producing livestock for consumption.]
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/deathfactoryfarm/synopsis.html
Derek
O.pearl
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