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Take Action: Smithfield Foods: Stop Abusing Innocent Pigs!
Smithfield Foods keeps pigs in tiny cages where they spend most of their lives and can sustain serious injuries. Take action!
Goal: 30,000
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Progress: 25,344
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
Virginia's Smithfield Foods is in trouble — again. Not only has the pork producer been involved in allegations of a swine flu outbreak having originated at its facilities, the company is also under fire for the way it's treating and housing its pigs.
Pigs at Smithfield's farms are kept in tiny crates — called gestation crates — where they have virtually no room to move around or stretch their legs. The crates are solitary, and the pigs often develop serious injuries from having such sustained contact with the metal, biting it or repeatedly banging their heads against it. Many of these animals spend most or all of their lives in these cages.
The pigs should be allowed to move their limbs and stretch out. They should be kept in reasonably sized facilities where they can exist comfortably.
Write to Smithfield asking them to commit to treating their pigs humanely and to do away with their cruel gestation crates.
Dear Smithfield CEO C. Larry Pope:
I am very upset to learn about the way the pigs at Smithfield Farms are being treated. They're being kept in tiny "gestation crates" where they have absolutely no room to move around. Out of boredom they bite the metal and develop painful sores. The pigs often live in these cages for their whole lives.
This method of housing for the pigs is utterly inhumane and barbaric. It's tantamount to torture. You cannot expect to produce quality, healthy meat when the animals are being raised this way.
Smithfield publicly stated that the use of these gestation crates would be phased out, but this promise was later retracted due to the cost. The impression that you have given your customers is that you only care about profits, not the animals. Don't you think it is time to change that?
Please reconsider the manner in which you are treating these poor pigs.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Deborah Martin
May 14, 2013
Rolando Rur
May 14, 2013
Marialuisa Sau
May 14, 2013
Lisa Rex
May 14, 2013
Julie Miro
I will not consume or feed my family any Smithfield Farms products until this abuse stops!
May 14, 2013
jenn rhoads
May 14, 2013
ANALÍA CROSA
May 14, 2013
Joëlle Evrard
May 14, 2013
Alma Kulmala
May 14, 2013
Chris Martino
May 14, 2013
Ankie Ellajdel
May 14, 2013
Eva Valle
May 14, 2013
Kimberly Weprich
These animals die for us. You can at least treat them in a humane manner. How difficult could that be?
May 14, 2013
catherine jabblonska
May 13, 2013
raj neer
May 13, 2013
Felicia Rivas
May 13, 2013
daniel henley
May 13, 2013
chantal cornelis
May 13, 2013
Daniela Marchi
May 13, 2013
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May 13, 2013
Ariane Macharelli
May 13, 2013
celine duburg anchen
May 13, 2013
Ross Selko
May 13, 2013
Kirsty Borg
May 13, 2013
isabelle FERNANDES
May 13, 2013
ghinea teodora
May 13, 2013
Jennie Ellerbee
May 13, 2013
Ana Santos
May 13, 2013
margarita psaroudaki
May 13, 2013
liotard Liotard
May 13, 2013
pascale denis
May 13, 2013
Sofie Forsberg
May 13, 2013
Rita Andrews
May 13, 2013
michele desimone
please stop subjecting them to these deplorable conditions? Maybe you should try living in those crates
May 13, 2013
angela mondini
May 13, 2013
Lorenza Lariviere
May 13, 2013
Laurice Helmer
May 13, 2013
sauwah tsang
May 13, 2013
Darlene Ryan
May 13, 2013
Mariann Rannenberg
May 12, 2013
Liane Gayler
May 12, 2013
b cris
May 12, 2013
Ronnie Feierabend
May 12, 2013
Colin Feierabend
May 12, 2013
Heinz Feierabend
May 12, 2013
Sonja Feierabend
May 12, 2013
Stefania Nobile
I'd like to see you living in those conditions and hear what you have to say... Shame on you.
May 12, 2013
Carol Beliveau
May 12, 2013
Brenda Lunceford
May 12, 2013
Diane DeMarco
