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laceration

PETA's undercover investigators also documented the following:

A supervisor repeatedly urinated near crated pigs, his urine running into the only area where food was dropped and animals could lay their heads.

Dead piglets' entrails were removed, ground into a stew, and set under heat lamps to grow bacteria. This stew—called "feedback"—was then mixed with feed and fed to the sows.

Workers cut off piglets' tails and pulled out piglets' testicles—without any painkillers—as the small animals screamed next to their mothers. Their tails and testicles went onto a pile on the shed floor.

• A supervisor shoved a cane into a sow's vagina, struck her on the back about 17 times, and then struck another sow.
• Multiple pigs were beaten with metal gate rods, and lacerations were found on more than 30 sows, which is probably evidence of more abuse.
• A worker hit a young pig in the face four times with the edge of a herding board, and investigators witnessed dozens of similar incidents involving this worker and 11 other workers.
• Two men, including a supervisor, were witnessed jabbing clothespins into pigs' eyes and faces. A supervisor also poked two animals in the eyes with his fingers.
• A supervisor kicked a young pig in the face, abdomen, and genitals to make her move and told PETA's investigator, "You gotta beat on the bitch. Make her cry."

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