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Bayard hog farm subject of international outrage

By Douglas Burns 9/17/08

Reports of wicked treatment of animals at a hog farm outside of Bayard are making international news in the wake of an Associated Press story that relies on undercover video showing workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming pigs on floors and jamming objects into their bodies.
One veteran chronicler of Iowa life, Chuck Offenburger, lives [...]

Professor, PETA: When no one is looking, Agriprocessors does ‘bad things’

By Lynda Waddington 9/5/08

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has released a third video from inside the an Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, showing what the organization believes are inhumane slaughtering techniques.

More People, Organizations Call for Changes at Agriprocessors

By Lynda Waddington 5/27/08

Uri L’Tzedek, a grassroots Orthodox social justice initiative, has penned a letter to Aaron Rubashkin, founder of the Agriprocessors Corporation, expressing displeasure with the company’s ethical practices. The letter, which makes demands for federal minimum wages, workplace and worker safety and ethical treatment, has drawn the approval of hundreds of U.S. kosher meat consumers.
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