HBO Special in March - Death on a Factory Farm

[Guest guest]

For everyone who speaks up for animals, please spread the word about this HBO

special - it's information for the uninformed or those in denial....

 

" Death at a Factory Farm, " an 87-minute documentary, will air on Home Box Office

(HBO) on March 16th, 19th, 26th and 31st. The documentary features an Ohio pig

farmer who was acquitted of animal cruelty charges stemming from the hanging of

a pig on his farm (see: http://tinyurl.com/avpxck ). Ken Wiles and his employee,

Dusty Stroud, were found not guilty of animal cruelty charges. Wiles' son Joe

was found guilty of one charge of animal cruelty for carrying an animal in a

cruel or inhumane manner. (A veterinarian testified in court that hanging pigs

was a humane way to kill them.)

 

The documentary includes undercover video taken at the farm and also covers the

hearing. An investigator for the Humane Farming Association documented such

scenes as: piglets being hurled across a room into a crate where they crash into

each other or onto the floor; an unhealthy piglet being taken by the feet and

slammed against a wall; impregnated pigs crammed into pens for up to 116 days,

and a sick pig being hung from a forklift by a chain and convulsing for five

minutes, according to a public-relations representative for the documentary.

 

Thanks,

 

Elizabeth Guare

Menlo Park