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This is What Happens to Walmart Pork Before It Reaches Your Plate
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
The cruelty inherent in animal factory farming is something that we as a species should find completely and totally unacceptable. Indeed, evidence shows that when people are exposed to the nightmarish conditions faced by factory animals prior to consumption they demand change. This is precisely why corporate interests have pushed ag-gag laws throughout the nation in an attempt to criminalize the exposure of these methods.
I am sure many of you have already been exposed to videos of shocking animal cruelty before. Even if you have, the video below created by Mercy for Animals is a very important watch. It exposes unthinkable abuse of tiny, helpless pigs for absolutely no good reason. These incidents were filmed at Pipestone System’s Rosewood Farms in Pipestone, Minnesota earlier this year.
WARNING: Parts of this video are extraordinarily disturbing. While I think it is important for people to watch it and be aware, it might be too much to handle for some.
More from the Huffington Post:
Undercover footage that appears to show horrifying conditions at a Walmart pork supplier has prompted investigations at a Minnesota factory farm.
Local law enforcement executed a search warrant at Pipestone System’s Rosewood Farms in Pipestone, Minn., on Oct. 9, following a complaint filed by animal rights nonprofit Mercy for Animals. The organization says an undercover private investigator collected first-hand evidence, including video footage, of inhumane treatment of pigs raised and slaughtered at the facility.
The hidden-camera footage appears to show pregnant pigs confined in tiny “gestation crates,” pigs being punched and abused, and piglets being thrown on their heads and mutilated without anesthetic.
Matt Rice, the director of investigations at Mercy for Animals, told HuffPost the investigator — whose identity has been kept private — spent 10 weeks posing as an employee at Rosewood Farms earlier this year.
“Pregnant pigs are confined in tiny metal crates that are just barely big enough to hold them,” he said of the factory farm. “They’re basically immobile for their entire lives. They can’t turn around, they can’t lie down comfortably, and they suffer from large open wounds and pressure sores from rubbing against the bars.”
Rice calls these gestation crates — banned in the European Union and in nine U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Florida and Arizona — “one of the most cruel forms of institutionalized cruelty.”
Unlike more than 60 other major retailers, including Kroger, McDonald’s, Safeway,Costco and Kmart, which have all refused to work with pork suppliers that use gestation crates, Walmart has not instituted such a policy.
The nonprofit says it has conducted at least two dozen such undercover investigations at factory farms, dairy farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses in recent years — three of which, including the most recent at Rosewood, were at Walmart pork suppliers.
“Every single time, our investigators have brought back images that would horrify most Americans,” Rice said. “This is a sign that mutilating animals without anesthesia and confining them in cages so small they can’t turn around are considered standard industry practice.”
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Here is a great lesson regarding self sufficiency. When you have to raise and kill the animals yourself, you learn to respect them more - and also respect what it means to be a carnivore.
Generally people who eat meat should at least have to kill and dress a few animals, doing so brings it into context a bit. There's quite a bit of unecessary cruelty in the video, however those who never killed an animal with a knife generally over react - and I find that quite annoying, because they want to be able to eat meat without killing animals - and that just doesn't happen.
manifipulation, I have done the pelvis cracking thing as wel and works as long as you find the spot to insert knife. Need a stout blade to do it with or you will snap it off. I admire you handloading center fire ammo. I loaded thousands of rounds of shotshells as I shot competitve skeet way back when shotshells were 3 bucks a box and i still reloaded and saved money. I find a man can only do so many things well with is "spare time". There is a man at my church who handloads centerfire ammo and is going to walk me through it soon, I can hardly wait. Have a great day.
Yep, I snapped a blade once on a Solingen hollow ground knife but if you looked at the link on my post you will see that I carry a stout stainless blade and it is one that has taken me years to perfect. I love that knife almost more than my children and probably a little more than my wife.
As for loading, I have loaded for them all. Shotshell reloading is mindless. Bottleneck brass cartridge loading is something else and they are not the same thing. I have been meaning to do a post on boating accident but, well, I don't need to. I can you a few tips though.
-deprime and resize your cases. You can neck size for a specific rifle but you are not that advanced. If you try this and do not know what you are doing you will end up with a jammed rifle even if it is a bolt. Note that the M14/M1A requires a special die and I have one.
-Always use the best cases and toss any junk into the brass recycle pile. Run them through a case tumbler with corn cob media for 24 hours. Any brass that has any defects in it is junk. Toss it.
-Clean the primer pocket and deburr the flashhole from the INSIDE. There is special tool for this. If you do not do this then just forget about handloading. It matters big time on accuracy.
-Good calipers to measure overall case length and a case trimmer. Trim the cartridge mouth back to specifications. At this point you will need a chamfer/deburring tool to fix the flat edge on the case mouth.
That's probably enough about that part of handloading for now. I have over twenty years of experience in the field. It is a great, if not expensive, hobby. It becomes more advanced as you progress through loads. I wasted a lot of gunpowder, primers and bullets before I figured out that case preparation is the key.(see above)
I also have a neat tool that measures headspace on a rifle. In a perfect situation, you only want a .002 jump to the lands. You can make that perfect situation occur but you can not share ammo per se even if your buddy is using the exact same model rifle. When you are talking about .001 of an inch every little detail matters.
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these are the only piggies worth eating:
Iberico
Mangalitsa
Wild Boar
How does it surprise some of you, considering what man does to man (and woman)?
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, 9/11... The URSS' Gulags, Hitler's concentration camps, the Juntas (de facto gvts in many countries around the World) and an endless list of horrors throughout History (as The Holy Inquisition, i.e.)...
http://www.ellinghuysen.com/news/articles/150502.shtml
I have fantasies of the pigs in the video being Hank Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Jamie Dimon, Dick Fuld, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. Is it kosher to mention Jewish bankers and pork in the same sentence?
The tell is at the very end of the piece: "Adopt a vegetarian diet". Imagine that, a hidden agenda. I detest the psychopathic treatment the pigs receive, BUT, at the end of the day, they are pigs! The psychos at the other extreme are people who value the life of a pig as the same as a human being. Believe me, there are allot of them.
That was reminiscent of Kermit Gosnell.