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Stop Hormel Supplier's Abuse of Mother Pigs and Piglets

Target: Hormel Foods
Sponsored by: PETA
For more than three months, PETA went undercover at an Iowa pig factory farm, which supplies piglets who are raised and killed for Hormel products.

PETA found rampant cruelty to animals - committed by workers and supervisors. The farm changed ownership and management during PETA's investigation, but that made no difference to the animals who were born and confined there: Abuse and neglect were widespread during PETA's entire investigation.

Abuses were brutal and widespread, including beating and kicking the animals for no reason and jabbing at the animals' eyes and faces.

By purchasing pigs bred and born on this farm and then grown elsewhere before being slaughtered for Hormel products, Hormel is financially supporting an operation whose employees abuse animals.

Sign this petition today to tell Hormel to demand that this farm and all of their suppliers meet the animal welfare guidelines set forth by PETA.
deadline: 9-8-2009
goal: 7,000
 

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Dear [Decision Maker],

I just heard about a disturbing video on PETA.org that clearly shows that workers were abusing mother pigs and piglets who were to be raised and killed for Hormel products.

Please follow PETA's lead and call for the immediate termination and criminal prosecution of any employee - of this farm, Hormel, or any of your other suppliers - who is caught abusing or neglecting animals. You should also demand that this farm and all your suppliers meet the animal welfare guidelines set forth by PETA.

These guidelines include phasing out the use of gestation crates by 2011, installing a video monitoring system that will be observed by a third party, and providing enrichment for pigs, just to name a few.
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We took action on “Stop Hormel Supplier's Abuse of Mother Pigs and Piglets”!
# 14,940:
12:27 am PDT, Sep 8, Adriana Stancheva, Bulgaria
# 14,939:
2:23 pm PDT, Sep 7, Daniela Kaufmann, Germany
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7:31 am PDT, Sep 7, Katrina Reeves, Australia
# 14,937:
10:09 pm PDT, Sep 5, Sonia Beccheri, Brazil
PLEASE SAVE OUR FRIENDS IT´S A SHAME
# 14,936:
6:11 pm PDT, Sep 5, Erin Sanchez, Texas
# 14,935:
6:08 pm PDT, Sep 4, Kara Sklodowska, Missouri
# 14,934:
10:56 am PDT, Sep 4, Patricia Kliewer, Missouri
# 14,933:
6:54 am PDT, Sep 4, MARIA PAPADOPOULOU, Greece
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3:03 am PDT, Sep 4, Name not displayed, Australia
# 14,931:
7:23 pm PDT, Sep 3, Jennifer Nesbitt, Maryland
# 14,930:
12:22 am PDT, Sep 3, Adam Sadowski, Poland
# 14,929:
9:34 pm PDT, Sep 2, Jessica Saavedra, California
# 14,928:
8:50 am PDT, Sep 2, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
As you are profiting from these animals, please at least save them from further harm and abuse and employ people without the inbuilt cruel streak. Thank you.
# 14,927:
7:32 am PDT, Sep 2, Clara Barrionuevo, Argentina
# 14,926:
6:57 am PDT, Sep 2, Paula Soria, Argentina
# 14,925:
4:28 pm PDT, Sep 1, Carmen Bara, Romania
# 14,924:
3:12 pm PDT, Aug 31, Stephanie Marroquin, California
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7:26 am PDT, Aug 31, Lizl Rigg, South Africa
# 14,922:
12:42 am PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, France
Il faut respecter l'ANIMAL. Même celui qui doit être conduit à l'abattoir. Dans les meilleurs conditions possibles . Soyons respectueux , aidons les à ne pas souffrir, Ils ressentent les souffrances et les humiliations, que certains humains n'on pas conscience.
# 14,921:
4:52 pm PDT, Aug 30, Misty Snow, New York
# 14,920:
9:57 am PDT, Aug 30, Name not displayed, Italy
# 14,919:
9:57 am PDT, Aug 30, Saleena Hernandez, New York
This is horrific... These animals deserve way better than this. They think & feel just like we do & this type of treatment is criminal...
# 14,918:
9:13 am PDT, Aug 30, Barbara Alesse, Italy
# 14,917:
6:10 am PDT, Aug 30, Jeanne Cheslock, Florida
i'll never buy your products again until I hear that stops.
# 14,916:
5:04 am PDT, Aug 30, Name not displayed, Switzerland
# 14,915:
5:03 am PDT, Aug 30, Kristen Linehan, Pennsylvania
# 14,914:
5:01 am PDT, Aug 30, Jacqueline Jahn, United Kingdom
There is NO excuse for abuse EVER. Please ensure the animals you purchase have been bred and raised HUMANELY!!!
# 14,913:
3:40 am PDT, Aug 30, Simonetta Medri, Italy
# 14,912:
3:29 am PDT, Aug 30, CRISTINA PASTORELLI, Italy
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2:08 am PDT, Aug 30, Giovanna Visceglia, Italy
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1:29 am PDT, Aug 30, Barbara Abatti, Italy
# 14,909:
11:36 pm PDT, Aug 29, Will Lowrey, Virginia
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9:35 pm PDT, Aug 29, Lara Guzman, California
# 14,907:
9:23 pm PDT, Aug 29, Giorgia Atchison, Washington D.C.
REAL MEN ARE KIND TO ANIMALS!!!!
# 14,906:
8:39 pm PDT, Aug 29, Mary Host, Florida
As a member of the League of Women Voters online and having a sister who also is chairperson of the League of Women Voters in Virginia I urge you to stop this horrific abuse. I am also a best friend of whom her father is good friends of the Vice President of the USA. Please stop this horrible abuse!
# 14,905:
8:38 pm PDT, Aug 29, Christine Hill, Canada
# 14,904:
8:23 pm PDT, Aug 29, Sadie Vonl, Canada
why why why!!!!!Do these poor animals have to be so confined like that!! How ban you call yourselves human beings..
# 14,903:
8:12 pm PDT, Aug 29, Jill Nice, Ohio
# 14,902:
8:00 pm PDT, Aug 29, Tania Castro, Maryland
# 14,901:
3:52 am PDT, Aug 28, Isabell Siebert, Germany
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