The hogs of Spring Brook

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The hogs of Spring Brook

 

By John Fleming

Associated Editor

03-17-2002

 

...Since the residents filed their case, Ben Gregoria, Bryant’s next-door

neighbor, has shot hours of videotape of the Diamond Meat operation. Gregoria

filmed the entrails and blood and body parts of hogs being dumped into the

render truck and the piles of dead pigs littering the slaughter yard.

 

And in November of 2000, Gregorio captured workers on videotape dragging a large

sow with a chain behind a forklift from one side of the compound across a

parking lot inside the slaughterhouse.

 

She is clearly still alive and conscious, struggling as the forklift briefly

halts before entering the slaughterhouse.

 

The federal 1978 Humane Slaughter Act says, “the dragging of disabled animals

and other animals unable to move, while conscious, is prohibited.”

 

 

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2002/as-insight-0317-jfleming-2c15u3557.htm

 

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