Big Ag and animal cruelty

Greenwald YouTube 23min
Watched this video the other day from Greenwald on cruel treatment of animals in agriculture. I thought there were laws on this. I found things like the Animal Welfare Act, but these things seem to deal with animals outside of the ag sector.

He discusses things like gestation crates, which are worse than prison cells. Animals, such as pigs, are kept in them and they can't move - at all. This is torture. I thought this practice had been abandoned long ago, but companies like Smithfield still use these. Pigs literally go crazy in them, bashing up against them, biting the bars, etc.


I will never buy Smithfield products ever again. They issued a declaration almost 20 years ago that they would phase them out and they never did. I was under the impression that massive reform had taken place in animal agriculture, and that the main issue remaining was researching the most humane way of harvesting the different species in ag. I was wrong. Naturally Congress will do nothing because of the campaign donations involved.

I thought there might be others here under the impression these practices had stopped, and might like to know that they haven't.

It's a bad sign for a society to tolerate this type of treatment of the vulnerable, whether it's the very young, very old, sick, injured, or animals.