LCA Exposes Systematic Cruelty and Neglect at Christensen Farms' Pig Breeding Facility
A Meat and Dairy Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves. As we continue to disregard the value of the lives of the billions of animals we eat, we also are destroying our air, land and water.

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Last Chance for Animals (LCA) / FactoryFarm360.org
August 2015

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LCA has submitted a criminal complaint to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office detailing 18 incidents of animal cruelty, 17 incidents of animal mistreatment by neglect and one incident of animal mistreatment by deprivation.

LCA's new undercover investigation exposes horrific cruelty and neglect at the fourth-largest pig farm in the United States.

In the spring of 2015, LCA conducted a four-month investigation into a Christensen Farms facility in Luverne, Minnesota. The facility is a “breed-to-wean” factory farm where 2,500 mother pigs, producing over 1,300 piglets each week, are confined to small metal crates for their entire lives.

Watch the video of the findings (Warning: Graphic Footage):

The investigation uncovered multiple incidents of systematic neglect and cruelty, including:

• Pigs with large vaginal and anal prolapses and other severe injuries being forced to walk or drag themselves before being shot.
  
• Downed sows slapped, kicked and stabbed with writing pens by farm workers.
  
• Workers dragging pigs by their snouts and ears.
• Workers failing to promptly euthanize piglets in critical condition.
• Company protocols that result in piglets being left in carbon dioxide inhalation chambers overnight and not being confirmed dead until the next morning.
  
  
• Pigs with debilitating illness and injuries left to suffer for prolonged periods, sometimes as long as ten weeks. Many of these grossly neglected sows became too weak to access feed and water, quickly becoming emaciated and are later found dead, weeks later.
  
• Abrasions from their iron crates are left untreated.
  

LCA has submitted a criminal complaint to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office detailing 18 incidents of animal cruelty, 17 incidents of animal mistreatment by neglect and one incident of animal mistreatment by deprivation.

Information and details of the investigation are at
FactoryFarm360.org

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