The Truth About Wyoming Premium Farms

      The Wyoming Premium Farms is a supplier of Tyrson Foods and is owned by the Japanese company Itoham, which produces 92 million pounds of meat and poultry in the US annually. The article is about the story an undercover Humane Society activist has witnessed while working for a pork slaughtor house in Wyoming. The undercover activist was equipped with a video camera to help document exactly what was going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bNY4Fjsdft4

      The most attrocious act of all the attrocities to me was both when a pig with a broken limb had someone bouncing on the limb to get it to move, along with when a sow (mother pig) was beaten to death for trying to return to her piglets.

     There are laws in place to help protect against animal cruelty, but there needs to be a third party on top of doing its job. In this case, the Wyoming Livestock Board is in charge of enforcing that the laws are being followed. As seen, as long as enough farmers agree to engage in such cruelty, their actions are more or less exempt from cruelty laws. As a result from the activist's video being released, the Wyoming Premium plant caught was temporarily shut down and employees were put through the "industry's quality assurance training". Wyoming Premium Farms faced the public and took action towards change, but the parent company Itoham of Japan "could not be reached for comment".

     Although it is great that this undercover activist was able to expose the terrible conditions, I'm shocked that a covert operation was necessary. I was also shocked to see that the state of Iowa has "made it illegal to gain access to a farm facility under false pretenses". I feel that this proves how people, even those in power, know what's going on but are willing to overlook it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/humane-society-wyoming-premium_n_1528541.html