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01-08-06, 06:15 PM
Taking on the meat industry
Jennifer Gollan
Steeped in feces and rotting carcasses, the pigs at HKY Inc. in Nebraksa faced a grim death until a San Rafael animal rights group showed up.
The Humane Farming Association turned over the results of its clandestine investigation of the pork plant to the Nebraska attorney general's office, raised the alarm of the media and forced the farm to shut down.
"It was literally a hellhole," said Bradley Miller, the national director of the nonprofit Humane Farming Association, which claims 180,000 members. "So much of what we are talking about is taking place literally behind locked doors. Our job is to expose what is really going on."...
Article-http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_3383109
Jennifer Gollan
Steeped in feces and rotting carcasses, the pigs at HKY Inc. in Nebraksa faced a grim death until a San Rafael animal rights group showed up.
The Humane Farming Association turned over the results of its clandestine investigation of the pork plant to the Nebraska attorney general's office, raised the alarm of the media and forced the farm to shut down.
"It was literally a hellhole," said Bradley Miller, the national director of the nonprofit Humane Farming Association, which claims 180,000 members. "So much of what we are talking about is taking place literally behind locked doors. Our job is to expose what is really going on."...
Article-http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_3383109