Horrific Animal Rights Violations Filmed at Hormel Foods Supplier
Animal rights organization Compassion Over Killing recently released an undercover video shot at the plant of Quality Pork Processors (QPP)—a supplier of Hormel Foods, in Austin, Minnesota—that showed horrific mistreatment of hogs being slaughtered and processed for consumption. Some details in the video include hogs beaten with paddles and conscious animals having their throats slit. In accordance with the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act , hogs are supposed to be rendered fully unconscious before being slaughtered, something that is clearly not the case in this video. Other jarring elements of the video pertain to food cleanliness – hogs covered with pus-filled abscesses or even what appear to be feces according to numerous sources are shown being led to slaughter and processing for later consumption. QPP is one of the most productive pork facilities in the country, processing between 19,000 and 22,000 hogs per day. It is also one of five pork processing p...
