Pls. call Farm Division Atty Gen. in IA TODAY re: punishing pig torturers !

October 28, 2008

Please call this office TODAY to encourage punishment to the fullest extent of the law for these pig torturers. He didn't sound to happy to hear from me. I think this is the "spin" office, being it's the "Farm Divisions" office of IA.

Iowa Attorney General, Environmental & Farm DivisionsLucas State Office Bldg.321 E. 12th Street, Ground Floor, Room 018Des Moines, IA 50319ph: 515/281-5351; fax: 515/242-6072email: farm

REFRESHER COURSE OF ABUSES FOUND:

"Beat on the bitch. Make her cry," a supervisor advises, as he kicks a young pig's face, abdomen and genitals. The dismissive nature of these workers indicates their cruelty is commonplace.

One supervisor thrusts a cane into a sow's vagina and smacks her back some 17 times. Clothespins and fingers are poked into pigs' eyes and faces. Piglet's heads are crushed against a floor and they're tossed into a bin to die. A worker beats a piglet's face with the rim of a herding board, a method that investigators saw repeatedly. An employee even spray paints the nostrils of a nursing sow.