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Humane Society investigation reports Smithfield pig-breeding facility used confinement crates

Humane society investigation of Smithfield pig farm (Added: December 15, 2010)

Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the Factory Farming Campaign for the Humane Society, discusses an undercover investigation of a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. (more)

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Humane Society investigation reports Smithfield pig-breeding facility used confinement crates

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This photo of confinement pens was shot by a representative of the Humane Society of the United States who was working undercover at a Smithfield/Murphy-Brown facility in Wakefield.

By: KRISTEN GREEN | Richmond Times Dispatch
Published: December 15, 2010

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An investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of a Smithfield/Murphy-Brown facility in Waverly found pigs suffering in confinement crates, which Smithfield pledged to stop using by 2017.

The investigation, announced this morning in Richmond, found the pigs could barely move in the crates, suffered from open sores and ulcers and were bleeding from their mouths from biting the bars of the crates.

The investigator also reported a pig was thrown into a dumpster alive. More than 1,000 sows live in the crates at the Waverly facility.