Fox News Exclusive: Disturbing Video Shows Animal Cruelty at PA Pig Farm

Fox News: The video starts by showing CVFF employees picking up baby pigs by their ears and hind legs and throwing them between employees.

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November 16, 2009 at 9:26 pm - Fox News
Dateline: Fannettsburg, PA
David   November 16th, 2009 - 9:48 pm

I love bacon.

DB   November 16th, 2009 - 9:53 pm

So you have spent your entire life in the city where you go to the grocery store to pick up your pork roast or ribeye. If that is the closest you have been to a pig or a steer, if you have never worked on a feedlot or a farm, this may look mean to you. I saw the video and I would have expected this report from PETA, not FOX!! Do you expect those workers to pet the pigs and walk them on a leash? This is a business. It may not be pretty but these are animals that are bred to be killed. The treatment that I saw was not that extreme. Picking a piglet up by the ear does not harm them. Nor does picking them up by the leg. If you need something to report about, try asking Barry why he refuses to produce his birth certificate. Why was the young man who looked at his passport records killed? I haven’t heard anything about that in the press. Is it because the arabs that own 15% of FOX stock does not want you to do any digging into Barry’s past?

Thanks,

DB

Dee   November 16th, 2009 - 10:14 pm

I got a good idea…..Lets rub the on the head and make them pets before we eat them!!

Brietbartpiggy   November 16th, 2009 - 10:23 pm

FOX goes PETA :D :D :D

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Les   November 16th, 2009 - 10:37 pm

I see the footage but I know that sometimes animal rights activists will stage acts of ‘cruelty’ at night so they can film it, then they release it to the public as if it were commonplace. They have pulled this trick on primate researchers before. I grew up on a farm and knew pig farmers and know they would never handle their stock this way.

Homer   November 16th, 2009 - 11:13 pm

HHHMMMNNNNN, Bacon!

Hooter   November 16th, 2009 - 11:18 pm

Frankly the village idiots who previously posted don’t realize if the farms and processing plants aren’t following proper ethical and industry practices the end result will be on your table in the end. Perhaps those jerks comments are just mother natures way of thinning the heard when these folks come down with salmonella.

I’m going to avoid any products from this farm and supplier…

steve-o, The Magnificent   November 16th, 2009 - 11:34 pm

Ummmm….yeah….let’s be sure to treat these animals nice and lovingly….before we slaughter and eat them! REALLY….there’s NOTHING more important we could be spending our time fretting over?!

If this WERE the worst thing happening in the world, I’d line up and demand that my ham be more lovingly cared for, but until that time, let’s focus on a few MINOR issues:
1 – our troops being caught up in TWO POINTLESS WARS!
2 – Our President marching our country towards socialism.
3 – our rights being pilfered away while we watch Dancing with the Stars…and pig cruelty videos….
etc…. I’m just sayin’…..

RedCarolina   November 17th, 2009 - 1:18 am

It is sad, but it must be kept in context — these people do this on a daily basis, the animals are put out of misery quickly — please, let’s not start humanizing farm animals. I’m more concerned with the well-being and mental state of the workers — they must become desensitized to the suffering of the animals and that can turn into cruelty toward people. But there is no getting around the fact that the animals need to be processed — what should the workers do? cuddle them? talk sweet to them? and then gas them? geesh, people! it’s a farm! it was unpleasant for the pigs, yes, but they aren’t there to be happy. I know a chicken farmer and it was tough to imagine what his chickens went through, crowded together and fighting for their lives — but I also care about the famers and the living they need to make. The animals are put out of their misery quickly — The farming industry has changed – farmers subcontract with name-brand companies and quantity becomes as important as quality — this is the what the market demands of them, otherwise they will not survive. Many farmers inherit family farms and this is just an adaptation for them, to deal with the product quickly and coldly. Seems cruel to us, but someone has to provide this service, lest we all become vegetarians. I think we can find much worse cruelty toward animals and people in our own neighborhoods! I say support farmers and workers first, then worry about the animals another day. The last thing we need right now is a crack-down on farming that results in more job losses!!

Steve in Pa.   November 17th, 2009 - 7:33 am

Quit bruising my bacon, you bitches.

stacy   November 17th, 2009 - 8:25 am

The pigs did look clean. Animal husbandry is not for the faint of heart and many of us benefit from the work of others. Would it be better if I shot the deer in my back yard and ate it?

As a gardener I have seen more personality in a runner bean than in most chickens I have met. Plants have feelings too! Let’s just not eat anything.

We can breath I guess . . . but don’t exhale (CO2) — it is bad for the environment.

The video that they didn’t show — I hope it didn’t show the pigs being murdered! Can’t they remove the meat without harming the animal?? Damn my taste buds.

Arie   November 17th, 2009 - 8:29 am

This is a mega farm, small farms would never treat there animals this way.

Will   November 17th, 2009 - 9:49 am

“throwing them like footballs”
That would only be wrong if they were spiking them at the end of the toss .I didn’t see any dropped.
I have been in the business of animal husbandry for 50 years,and I don’t see the abuse here. The owner is absoutly correct when he says that he must take care of these animals because he can’t lose many before the profit dies off.
True abuse is the stacking of people in buildings 20 stories high,charging them $2,000 per month for a one room apartment ,and raising them as a bunch of neurotic ,politically correct ,candy pants .
Go figure .

kmichaels   November 17th, 2009 - 11:25 am

How about Peta getting upset over human babies being killed by the millions. Oh yeah, humans are not a priority to those freaks.

kmichaels   November 17th, 2009 - 11:26 am

Wonder what some folk would do if they saw a farmer applying a calf-puller on a cow ready to deliver a calf. Believe me, it is not a pretty picture.

Bud Gorman   November 17th, 2009 - 12:32 pm

Thank you, FOX and MFA! None of the cruelty can be excused with many of the comments here. I lived on a farm for several years quite awhile ago and never saw animals treated in any of the ways that I saw here. Animals that people have designated to eat (which is different in some countries) obviously feel pain. We did as much as we could to alleviate any instances of it. Pigs and chickens were not in crates, and no animals had sores, etc. Times have sadly changed. Slaughter is never pretty, however, and I wish I would have questioned even that more back then. Farm animals are not dumb, and many will come when calling their names. Most people who still eat meat want animals to be treated “humanely”. Where there is cruelty such as this, there are often health and environmental concerns too. I would not want to meet some slaughterhouse workers in a dark alley, as they can become very desensitized to killing and often have a myriad of social problems. Animal cruelty cannot be excused by labeling animal activists as extreme. Of course, there is always a PETA remark. Not every animal activist supports PETA, which is only one of many animal-related organizations, including Mercy for Animals, who did its job here. My guess is that most animal activists in general have done more good than the people who like to bitch about them. In the end, it really is about how we treat others–and that includes animals. I’m just curious if many of the comments would be here if the cruelty had been inflicted on a pet. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how it treats its animals.” – Ghandi We’re not doing that well, folks.

Bud Gorman   November 17th, 2009 - 3:50 pm

Addition: I should have mentioned calves not being in crates several years ago too.

jbone   November 18th, 2009 - 12:33 am

thats f***ed up.

Rob   November 18th, 2009 - 7:45 pm

This is not animal cruelty, it’s pig farming. If you want to cuddle pork, go to the store and buy some.

I agree with other posters. A Marxist is driving this country to communism, and FOX is worked up about this?

Bud Gorman   November 20th, 2009 - 5:17 am

It’s NOT animal cruelty BECAUSE it’s pig farming? Pig farming, especially the intensive variety which has done more harm than good to health, environment, etc., TENDS TO include animal cruelty. I’d say it’s a little late to be cuddling an animal (and, from what I’ve seen, a very smart one at that) once it’s in the grocery store. I’m amazed by the mentality. FOX can report whatever they want; there is more than one concern in this world, and this is one that everyone can easily do something about by not purchasing the product.

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