By Tom Philpott
December 17, 2010
"...[T]his week, the ever-heroic Humane Society of the United States released a stark report, including video, from inside a factory 'farm' run by Smithfield, the globe's largest pork producer. Once again, an HSUS inspector has snuck into an animal factory posing as a worker, documenting the horrors therein. Given the near absence of proper oversight of animal factories by the USDA (which oversees meat) and the FDA (eggs and dairy), HSUS has become our shadow regulator, the eyes through which the public can see what the industry gets up to behind its well-guarded gates...."
Click here to read remainder of this article and to view a horrific yet illuminating video from the HSUS's investigation.
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