I am a kind and gentle person. Therefore I am shocked at my own thoughts about what I would like to do to the cowards in that video. Fortunately I would not want to stoop to their level.

I think each one of those pigs and piglets have more worth than a hundred of those sick creatures.

I'm not going to look, but really this should not come as a shock to anyone.

I just watched the video, and truthfully, I've learn to ignore *everything* I see or hear that has the Peta logo on it.

Oh, not to support the animal cruelty, but I just had bacon and home fries for breakfast.

Oh man, I love bacon. I've been having BLTs lately and adding sunny side up eggs to the top of them. It's soooooo good.

I went through a phase of eating BLTs almost everyday.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "workers" turned out to be PETA people making a good scene.

Sacrifice a few for the good of the many...

did someone say bacon?

Why would anyone be surprised?

If there's anything people should take away from this, it's that factory farms aren't good for animals or the people being paid poor wages to work there. Instead, support your local butcher and local farmers, so you help the local economy AND know your bacon was treated nicely (it's like you'd get good karma from bacon.... delicious, delicious bacon).

What a farmer does in the privacy of his own home is between him and the good Lord above and is none of our business.

Actually thats still sick and wrong :(

I'm glad these kind of things can be brought to light. I'm sad that PETA will attempt to portray all farm workers as animal abusers because of this one video.

Meat is sweeeeeeet.

factory farms keep costs down.

i would support my local butcher if i had one. but alas, my local butcher is costco.

Factory farms kill farmers.

My family is all farmers - I do what I can to support the industry, even if it costs me more. Besides, I like knowing my meat is from a clean butcher and not a filthy slaughterhouse.

I want to stick a metal rod in one of these arseholes hindquarters...

So you have a butcher who gets the cow alive and kills it himself?

Forgive me, i'm not too versed in the whole butchering process...i thought butchers get the large portions of the cow and then worked from their...portions which come from a slaughterhouse. but i'm probably mistaken.

The butchers I know simply do not get any meat from a slaughterhouse. That nullifies the whole process - cows get roped into commercial feedlots, go to commercial slaughterhouses.... It's a small-town, old-time butcher shop, so it might be anomaly.

I'm not sure who actually kills the cows and pigs I eat (the rancher or the butcher), but they never see the inside of a slaughterhouse. I know I can bring a dead deer and get it butchered there if I chose.

I'm sure there are butchers who get their meat from slaughterhouses, but they're not ones I'd solicit.

HOLY GEEZUS. That made me SICK... Absolutly horrible.

I agree with you, we have butchers around here that do their own slaughtering and ones that work with whole sides of beef that is brought to them by the farmers. Either way, you can get some really nice cuts of meat for way cheaper than at the grocery store. You just have to buy like 12 lbs of steak at a time. I don't mind because you can have the butcher wrap it in paper and when you get home you just wrap it in a bunch of clear plastic and throw it in the freezer. Plus you can order select cuts and things you can't find at the grocery store. Ever heard of Arkansas bacon. It is primo and I couldn't find it anywhere but one certain butcher shop about 30 miles away. Well worth the drive.

upvotes for saying bacon.

It's not that all farmers do this, I think the greater point is that when you treat something like a product, the system will inevitably lead to abuse. Slavery didn't necessarily have to be all that bad as far as living conditions and treatment went, but those people were a commodity and as such, costs had to be kept low to maximize profit off of them, leading to...you guessed it....abuse. Why should it be any different because they're animals? In fact, because of the delineation we make with them, take slavery and make thousands of times worse and you've got the inevitable results for the animals.

We had a similar case here, too.

Wiles farm.

They would get a backhoe and hang them to kill them. And one picture shows a worker hugging a pig as it is hanging there, stuggling.

Not an acceptable method to euthanize an animal.

Euthanasia (literally "good death" in Ancient Greek) refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner.

Put a bullet it its head and make it quick. Seems many in the business take to torturing the animals they are in care of.

That is deplorable.