During PETA's investigation of a Hormel supplier, they documented that workers were kicking pigs, beating them with metal rods, and jabbing clothespins into their eyes.

Twenty-two criminal charges were eventually filed against six employees, and after seeing the video footage, thousands of caring people like you spoke out against the rampant cruelty to mother pigs and piglets at the Hormel supplier by writing to the company.

Now, four more of the six employees who were charged as a result of the investigation have entered pleas.

Each of the employees who admitted guilt to neglecting and/or abusing pigs will serve one to two years' probation and pay a fine, and most importantly, all but one will be prohibited from working with animals during the probation period.

This is only the most recent victory in our case against the Hormel supplier—one employee pleaded guilty in January, and to our knowledge, he was the first individual ever convicted of abusing or neglecting a factory-farmed pig in Iowa, the nation's top pork-producing state.

We need your help to make sure that the admitted pig abuser allowed to work with animals does not!

Despite an assurance in October that former farm manager Jordan Anderson (one of those who have admitted to abusing pigs) "has been suspended from working with livestock pending the outcome of the charges," a whistleblower told us that Anderson is currently employed at a hog-confinement facility.

Please ask the facility’s management to confirm that it does not pay admitted animal abusers or neglectors like Jordan Anderson to work with live animals. 

Thank you for being a part of this huge victory for pigs and all farmed animals!

Source: PETA