Tyson Foods and others have been pressured to stop confining pigs in gestation crates like these. So far, Wally World doesn’t seem to give a pig’s tail about cruelty to Miss Piggy.
The video you’ll find below, which has gone viral, is hard to watch.
That said, I’m glad it’s gone viral. This is what “agribusiness” has come to, as opposed to the kind of family farming and food production that those of a certain age used to know.
The things that go into the food we put in our bodies in modern America–and the treatment of the livestock and poultry we eat–are enough to make you sick. (Learn more here about factory farming.)
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I’m not a reactionary Wal-Mart basher and always look forward to Wal-Mart shopping when I’m back in the states.
But for every great thing that the corporate behemoth Wal-Mart does–and there’s a lot of great things to be said about Wal-Mart–it does something like this:
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