Warning: Contains Graphic Footage. Undercover video footage at “Wyoming Premium Farms” revealing egregious cruelty and filthy conditions at a Wyoming pig breeding facility owned by a supplier for Tyson Foods. The following video is one to be watched with discretion. This is truly heartbreaking and another example of the ways in which Americans degrade creation that God declares to be “very good.”

The Humane Society of the United States released undercover video footage revealing cruel treatment of animals and inhumane conditions at a Wyoming pig breeding facility owned by a supplier to Tyson Foods. The investigation revealed workers kicking piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles, and ruthlessly beating mother pigs. Along with individual acts of animal abuse, this investigation also highlights the suffering pigs endure when locked in metal “gestation crates” where they cannot even turn around for nearly their whole lives — a standard pork industry practice.

Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Safeway, Compass Group (the world’s largest food service provider), and other major food companies have announced, at the urging of The HSUS, that they’ll remove gestation crates from their supply chains. As several leading pork producers are actively moving in that direction, Tyson lags far behind and still defends this extreme confinement. We need your help to move the company to do the right thing.

Will you please help pigs by urging Tyson to stop allowing them to be confined in tiny gestation crates?

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I want to make you aware of a project that some of my friends are involved with. Rather than go on and on about it myself, I will post the information from their “kickstarter” page:

AN “OPEN-SOURCE” DOCUMENTARY

Profiling America is an “open-source” documentary. That means that every aspect of the project from fundraising, to pre-production, to production, to post-production, is a nationwide collaborative effort. Anyone can raise funds. Anyone can earn an Associate Producer credit by raising a minimum of one thousand dollars toward the $100,000 goal. Anyone and everyone can go to www.profilingamericamovie.com and contribute their own ideas about the film, from the content, the stories the film will tell, the experts to be interviewed, the subjects to be investigated, even the overall aesthetics of the film. Anyone can volunteer to help out during production. In post-production, however, there are limits to the collaboration. In order to have access to the footage and take part in post-production discussions, you have to have contributed at least $5 to the fundraiser. Profiling America is not “a film by Thom Stark.” It’s an open-source film by America, initiated by Thom Stark. Of course, the open-source metaphor can only extend so far. Thom will ultimately have the final say on what ideas can reasonably be incorporated if the film is going to be coherent, but all ideas are welcome and will be given full consideration. Anyone can contribute to the process. [Read more...]