Undercover video targets inhumane practices at Iowa pork producer
Mercy for Animals, an animal rights group, has released a video documenting practices at Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. An animal rights activist spent two months working at the producer, recording inhumane practices, reports ABC News.
Included in the video is evidence of gestation crates, which are being phased out in California but are used elsewhere. The activist also taped instances of what she called “standard practices” at the farm, including workers clipping piglets’ tails and performing castrations with no pain killers. Some botched castrations resulted in the intestines falling out of the piglets bodies, and some were left to die on the floor, she reports.