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Undercover Investigations // Pigs // Rampant Abuse at a South Dakota Pig Farm

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Lame pigs like this one are placed in the aisles and left to starve.

  Sick and injured pigs left in the aisles without access to food or water take weeks to die before succumbing to starvation or disease.

 
Left in the aisles to starve, pigs will resort in desperation to eating feces.

  Many pigs suffer from large open wounds that are never treated.

 
Pigs have hernias and stomach ruptures the size of volleyballs.

  Pigs suffer from severe abscesses but do not receive treatment.

 
Many pigs suffer from large open wounds that are never treated.

  Pigs live in such severely crowded pens that some cannot reach water and die of thirst, while others die from the heat.

 
Piglets often get their legs caught in the floor slats, and unable to reach food they starve to death.

  Living in their own filth, pigs become covered with excrement.

 
Dead pigs are left to rot among the living   Pigs suffer from severe abscesses that result from injections using unsanitary needles but do not receive treatment.

 
Piglets who got their legs caught in the floor slats lay dead and dying.   Extreme mistreatment of pigs results in very high mortality rates.

 







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