Abomination of the Earth, Iowa Select Farms - Animal Torture

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This video surfaced in June of this year and is shocking and absolutely shameful in every way imaginable.

[Warning: this is very graphic]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBR4FlrWVk4[/youtube]

I watched this video and my heart filled with rage and sadness upon seeing how horrible these animals are treated. Iowa Select Farms needs to be dismantled and the owners sent off into space because they do not deserve to be here on Earth, this is an absolute disgrace for humanity. We are not as civil as you may think! I'm personally boycotting this company and all of their partners which include Costco, SafeWay and Kroger. I cancelled my costco and SafeWay membership Friday in response to seeing this video.

I say we all switch to a vegetable diet and let the animals BE IN PEACE! ! LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PEOPLE! SPREAD THE WORD ON YOUR FACEBOOK, MYSPACE AND CONTACT LISTS LIKE I HAVE AND CONTACT THESE COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT ANIMAL CRUELTY!

Contact Iowa Select Farms and let them know what you think about their torturous practices and what you intend to do about it!
http://www.iowaselect.com/aspx/contact.aspx
(641)648-4479

Iowa Select Farm affiliates and supporters below

SafeWay
http://www.safeway.com/IFL/Grocery/Comments#iframetop
1-877-723-3929
Send SafeWay CEO Steve Burd an Email at steve.burd@safeway.com

Costco
Click Here For Comment Form
1-800-955-2292
Send James Sinegal, Costco CEO an Email at jsinegal@costco.com

Kroger
https://customer.kroger.com/comments/comments.aspx
1-800-576-4377

HyVee
http://www.hy-vee.com/company/contact/
1-515-267-2800
Send Ric Jurgens, Hy-Vee Chairman and CEO an email at rjurgens@hy-vee.com

I personally sent a message to every contact link and email address on that list and you should too. You must be reminded that you as an individual that is part of society have a say in what goes on in this world, it is mine and your responsibility to change something we don't like. There's an old saying that goes "if you're not a part of the solution you're a part of the problem", speak up and let your voice be heard TODAY.

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Such is why I'm vegan-
it astonishes me people seem to think their food comes from an Old McDonald's green pasture somewhere.
Thank you for posting this and raising awareness of the absolute hell that is the reality for animals.

I could never eat pork again after seeing that. That poor piglet's face...

This will probably be misconstrued but I want everyone here to face a simple fact. Unless you are a macrobiotic vegan, something has to die to feed you. Be it pigs, cows, fish, whatever, you are alive because something somewhere died. Then it was processed, and became your dinner. That's the way it has been since the dawn of time. So while this video is clearly edited to show meat farmers in the worst possible light, you'll see the same thing in every single farm anywhere. Rather than swear off meat forever, I'd recommend going to an organic grocer if you can afford it, and ideally a kosher one. Kosher rules dictate that the animals are treated with respect so that's the best option in my opinion.

I am not entirely against killing animals for human consumption to survive. We see this even in the animal kingdom, animals killing animals to survive. What I have a problem with is the torturous, cruel and disrespectful methods used to provide these meats to the market. For god sakes these animals are feeding us, providing us and our children with food to survive, that alone demands respect and dignity to the animal who gave up it's life for our consumption. Even wild animals don't torture their victims before they are eaten. Yet we see these animals being treated like they are less than nothing, like they have no value except that which is monetary and materialistic, we bring great harm to these animals in the name of profit and material gain.

That is what is utterly shameful about this practice, this is what must be changed, and I will damn sure boycott every single one of these companies that treat these animals so cruelly until this stops.

You didn't know about this? It's pretty standard industry practice. I have news for you, pigs sometimes survive part-way through automated processing machinery too!

The only reason I don't eat much pork is because it takes less of it to disagree with me than other animal fats.

the market is reacting, a large but still super super tiny percentage of the marketplace is buying from local farms who employ more humane methods, you just need to spread awareness and get the collective to demand more humane methods and be comfortable in the fact that your bratwurst will be a middle-class luxury and unaffordable to everyone below that.

Demanding we go Vegan turns people off, and suggestive in that you are more moral???

There isn't anything immoral about eating meat in and of itself, but that the methods employed often inflicts unjust suffering, and the torah does not approve! If your going to kill it, at least do so knowing you are taking the life that sustains you and those who share in eating it. It shouldn't just be an alternative like toast or cereal, though being removed from the land that sustains us and buying it pre-packaged not knowing how it was made can remove and desensitize people.

Nothing to do with modern food production is remotely analogous to human diets "since the dawn of time".
Edited or no, the footage is real, and represents actual conditions of a huge meat production corporation with products in stores throughout the nation.
"Organic" has absolutely nothing to do with animal welfare legally, nor does "kosher" in actual practice.

Naturally- what way is there to fight practices one finds ethically-abominable without..um...naming them as ethically abominable?
To those who view sentience as at all meaningful, the defensiveness inspired by the slightest implication that it is unjustifiable to breed, confine and slaughter in horrible conditions beings no different in experiental capacities than ourselves is nothing short of absurd.

There are many who would disagree heartily. I'm sure most people who engage in any practice will usually find it to be morally-acceptable.
The question raised by this thread isn't even one about eating meat, but of the abominable conditions animals are subjected to by this corporation.

The implication being that whim-based infliction of some suffering is justifiable?
Subjective.

Absolutely- it's amazing how many people, when going vegetarian or vegan, mention that they never connected the flesh of animals, that they had eaten their whole lives, with the actual creatures who suffered and died for those same products. That is how disconnected modern humans (in the West) are from their food.

Nothing new, I'm not gonna lay off the meat but they definitely need to lay the hell off the torture.

Leave us be even straighter - not all that many of today's edible plants would survive without animal types striving and dying. Eat all the veggies you like - the soil is as it is thanks to decaying and excreting beasties.

Without death there AIN'T no life on this planet.

There certainly won't be any human life, if we continue waging war on the ecosystems on which we depend.

Not that animals being mortal as we are and returning to the Earth as we will (er, would, naturally)
has much to do with the ethics involved in this question.

Perhaps they'd be more inclined if "they" didn't keep getting paid by you for it?

Wow, this really inspired me to eat more meat! I am really contributing to this system! That's SO COOL!!

I'm a drop in the ocean, what do you expect me to do? Go crusade or organize a boycott? Perhaps they'd be more inclined once the public successfully gets regulations and stricter policies pertaining to inspections pushed on them. Besides I'm going to start hunting for my own meat once I get myself a gun anyways since there's too many damn additives and growth hormones in meat these days anyways, so that should cut down on my packaged meat consumption.

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I just can't personally empathize with an "E'rbody else does it" ethical approach.
Good for you for pursuing a more natural diet.