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Here’s the most recent (2012) Mercy for Animals video, taken at Christensen Farms.

“Shocking Video:  Walmart Pork Supplier Caught Abusing Pigs” (4:13)

 These screenshots demonstrate the standard industry practice of “PACing” to kill undesirable piglets.  (PAC = Pound Against Concrete).

Mr. Hockman, is PACing abusive or good husbandry?

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Mr Hockman, I have more questions and comments…

1. How can pork producers– who are in the business of killing the largest number of animals as efficiently and profitably as possible– be described as care experts?
2. I don’t see evidence of that “commitment” to assuring animal care.  Talk is cheap.  Video footage reveals the lie.
3. You don’t have to be a real “animal care expert” to know that the “individual housing production model” (i.e. using gestation stalls) is cruel.
4. Furthermore, killing someone who would choose a real life over unnecessary death– if given the choice– is also cruel.
5. Now do this, pork producers:  Go take the place of your pigs.  Experience what they go through.  Just before you get killed, tell me how fun that experience was.  Then, tell me that you’re “okay” with being killed (since you’re just another animal and you’re made of meat.)   Be honest!
6. We do agree on one thing:  the marketplace determines what it would like to purchase.

I’m here to ask the marketplace to demand food that protects animals.  People who are in the business of killing animals are NOT caring for animals.  Exploiting animals and killing them IS abusive and it IS mishandling.

I’m here to ask for vegan foods.  Producers:  will you respond to me?  Will you produce healthy plant foods for me?  It’s unnecessary for me to consume animals to thrive.