Glenn Greenwald: Mass Extermination of Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic Revealed

>Under this method, pigs at the company’s rural Grundy County facility are being “depopulated,” using the industry’s jargon, by sealing off all airways to their barns and inserting steam into them, intensifying the heat and humidity inside and leaving them to die overnight. Most pigs — though not all — die after hours of suffering from a combination of being suffocated and roasted to death. The recordings obtained by The Intercept include audio of the piercing cries of pigs as they succumb. The recordings also show that some pigs manage to survive the ordeal — but, on the morning after, Iowa Select dispatches armed workers to enter the barn to survey the mound of pig corpses for any lingering signs of life, and then use their bolt guns to extinguish any survivors.

Truly disturbing. Increasing cruelty and suffering in order to minimize monetary loss of profits.

I don't think there's a way to tastefully draw a parallel between thousands of pigs being suffocated out of convenience and unarmed civilians being murdered by the police...

But all I can think of right now is "I can't breathe"

The people deserves to know the externalities of such practices of the animals agriculture business.

Why is it that main stream news is so afraid of exposing stuff like this ?

This shows how broken the farming model is in the States. Slaughter is pretty much the same, people have to work too quickly to despatch, often resulting in animals surviving as they go on the line to be cut up.

It would have been far more humane to use carbon dioxide instead, this is standard in Europe. It induces unconsciousness without much trouble.

This is why I’m mostly vegan.

Truly, despicably evil.