As mentioned, the loss of two sick piglets within any factory farm is merely just a mess to clean up. In this case, though, this rescue was the start of an unveiling process. Factory farms try to keep their industry secrets hidden for a reason. Farmers know that people will not purchase their products if they see how they were produced. A New York Times article highlighted photos from the rescue mission, which initiated the search warrant of the rehabilitation centers the following month.
As more people are gaining access to the hidden horrors within the meat industries, demand falls and activism rises. Just a few months after this horrific cruelty was captured, Smithfield released a promotional video highlighting how responsible, compassionate, and efficient they were. The biggest mystery here is how they magically remedied all of their animal welfare violations, inhumane procedures, and overall cruelty. After Hurricane Florence swept through the North Carolina processing plant, the open lagoons of waste flowed with the water brought on by the hurricane.
Large pools of blood, fecal matter, and bacteria, along with all the corpses of pigs who had drowned, flowed throughout the state causing widespread environmental and public health concerns. This incident made surrounding waterways toxic. Even without a devastating hurricane, industrialized farming is responsible for heavy resource depletion water, food, energy , carbon dioxide emissions, loss of biodiversity, and extreme pollution. They want to keep their production up.
There are tripping hazards and things that they could correct. A Human Rights Watch report details just how poorly employees are treated inside Smithfield operations. Undercover footage, natural disasters, and disgruntled employees have proved that all of these claims are false. Smithfield, and the rest of the animal processing plants like it, has a long way to go in regard to environmental responsibility, employee and consumer safety, and animal welfare.
Correction: A previous version of this explainer incorrectly identified the city of Tar Heel as located in South Carolina. Tar Heel is in North Carolina. Follow her on Twitter at taylorthemeek and Instagram at crueltyfreecravings.
What is Smithfield Foods? Who Owns Smithfield Foods? This total does not include the wild-caught fish that are killed to feed the fish on factory farms. Tuna and salmon need to eat at least five pounds of feed fish for every pound of body weight. Like other factory-farmed animals, farmed fish live their lives covered in a toxic mix of their own waste and that of their neighbors.
Around the world about 11 million ducks are killed every day. That does not account for the ducks who, having developed a neurological disorder from living in such close quarters to one another, start to pull out their own feathers and peck other ducks. Many get infected, causing the ducks to starve themselves and die. PETA estimates that million pigs are killed for food in the U. Around the world more than 4 million pigs are killed for food every day.
Piglets are separated from their mothers when as young as 10 days old. Piglets are moved to pens where they grow to about pounds. Farmers then move the piglets, called feeder pigs, to corn farming states like Illinois and Indiana, where they reach market weight about pounds.
Up to 1 million pigs die every year in the back of crowded trucks on the way to slaughter. Over 3 million rabbits are killed for food every day. For most Americans, rabbits are not food. They fall under the sympathetic animals category, with house pets and furry companions. But in places like China, Italy, and France, rabbits are still farmed for food. Almost 2 million geese are killed for food around the world every day. Ducks and geese are also raised in large numbers for their feathers, and they happen to suffer one of the cruelest animal farming practices.
Ducks and geese are force-fed and killed for their livers, which are enlarged from the excessive amounts of carbohydrates forced down their throats. So-called foie gras ducks and geese have a mortality rate 20 times higher than ducks and geese raised for meat and feathers. About , turkeys are killed every day for food in the U. Around the world, the daily total of turkeys killed for food is closer to 2 million.
At that size factory-farmed turkeys physically cannot run or fly as they would in the wild, despite their driving urge to do so. Globally, more than million sheep are killed for food every year. That means a daily total of 1. Many of these animals die while they are still babies. Both were records. Over the last six weeks of available data, U. Adjusted for sow imports from Canada, net U. The futures market is predicting a typical seasonal pattern for hog prices, with a peak in July and a low late in the year.
It indicates spring hog prices will be a bit lower than USDA is predicting per capita pork consumption at The January 1 cattle inventory report is scheduled for release on Friday afternoon. Source: Ron Plain, who is solely responsible for the information provided, and wholly owns the information.
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