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Tell the Seaboard Corporation to stop housing pigs in cruel gestation crates
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To: Steven J. Bresky, CEO of The Seaboard Corporation
As one of America’s largest pork producers, you have a responsibility to treat animals humanely at all of your breeding facilities. Earlier this year, however, the Humane Society captured undercover footage from two of your Oklahoma facilities telling quite a different story. The shocking video...
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The Seaboard Corporation is one of U.S’ largest producers of pork, processing about 18,500 hogs a day at their facilities before supplying to large chains like Walmart. In January of this year, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) conducted an undercover investigation of Seaboard after catching wind of appalling animal cruelty at two of their Oklahoma breeding facilities. The video footage HSUS captured revealed dead pigs and piglets in pens around the facility and sows with large sores, torn skin and ripped ears and snouts left untreated. Watch the shocking video here (please note that the images are graphic).
HSUS also found that Seaboard continues to confine their pigs in gestation crates for most of their lives. Referred to as one of the cruelest practices in all of agribusiness, these tiny crates prevent the animals from even turning around. In many cases the pigs are left amidst feces and urine, nursing bleeding sores and other injuries.
Public outcry against this barbaric practice has led many of the world's largest fast food companies—such as McDonald's, Wendy's, and Chipotle – to eliminate gestation crates from their supply chains. Additionally, some of the top U.S. pork producers have also taken measures to phase out this practice. Smithfield Foods (the world's largest pork producer) and Hormel Foods (the maker of SPAM) have committed to go gestation crate-free by 2017 in all of their company-owned facilities.
Despite this precedent, as well as complaints filed by HSUS with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following the investigation, the Seaboard Corporation refuses to acknowledge this glaring animal rights issue. They have resisted going gestation crate-free, which would give pigs greater freedom of movement and a more dignified way of life.
Studies consistently show that 95% of Americans want farm animals to be treated humanely. Let’s demand that our factory farming industries behave in a way that upholds our values. The Seaboard Corporation can champion this effort by committing to phase out the use of cruel gestation crates at all company-owned breeding facilities by 2017!
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Update #1
Posted on Jul 11, 2012Thanks to the over 16,000 of you who signed the petition against the Seaboard Corporation. Today we can celebrate a major milestone in this fight! Just a few hours ago the Humane Society (HSUS) announced that it intends to sue several pork production companies, including Seaboard, for their cruel use of gestation crates. After conducting months of research, HSUS identified 51 production sites owned by the six offending companies that not only mistreat their pigs by confining them in tiny...
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these animals need to be crate free asap, like NOW not with in fie years, five years is way to long, it's cruel and in humane, these animals don't need to suffer in silence, with no medical treatment, common what is wrong with these companies, every one should go on a a strike and not buy any pork, something has to be done to get the message across to them, they feel the pain and the neglect, maybe these companies need to be put in a crate and treated the same way, as these animals, people...
…these animals need to be crate free asap, like NOW not with in fie years, five years is way to long, it's cruel and in humane, these animals don't need to suffer in silence, with no medical treatment, common what is wrong with these companies, every one should go on a a strike and not buy any pork, something has to be done to get the message across to them, they feel the pain and the neglect, maybe these companies need to be put in a crate and treated the same way, as these animals, people need to start speaking up, they don't have a voice, they can't even move freely, it sickens me, there is to much animal abuse and animal cruelty in this world. I will not buy any more pork, lets put these monsters away, every one should boycott this, this needs to be done now, it makes me feel so sad for the animals. every one needs to speak up,
If you stop eating pigmeat from supermarkets, you help a little bit.
Only buy meat from small biological farms.
The best way to help!!
Actually, the best way to help is to not eat animals or animal products, if possible; for most, it's very possible.
I believe that Smithfield Foods was on Food, Inc about 2 years ago. They slaughter some 20,000 hogs each day by placing them in iron bins and crushing them. Very disgusting.
Lowlives, Monsters, Demons, Deceivers, Criminals, Nazis...This is what they would be called and it would be a rightly placed label on all those rich, large and small traders of Death and Misery. Imagine yourselves spending one single day, or an hour in the same kind of hell these inocent creatures are forced into, for every second of their short, fast paced life!
stop treating them cruel now!
I couldn't even bring myself to watch this video. As an animal rights campaigner in my young(er) days, watching 'The Animals Film' was enough for me. It's horrific and barbaric what we do to sentient creatures.
I love this animals..... the human is brutal stoping with this practice!
the fastest ways to stop this kind of stuff is to stop buying pork if you don't buy it then they will STOP.
WHAT ARE WE DOING , THESE ARE NOT OBJECTS WITH NO FEELINGS.