Shocking hidden-camera video of animal abuse secretly recorded at Christensen Farms, a Walmart pork supplier, was released today by the national protection organization Mercy For Animals. Christensen Farms is one of the five largest pork producers in the nation. The disturbing undercover video, narrated by 19-time Emmy Award-winning host of The Price is Right, Bob Barker, reveals pregnant pigs confined for nearly their entire lives in crates barely larger than their own bodies, and piglets being slammed headfirst into the ground and having their testicles ripped out and tails cut off without painkillers.
Mercy For Animals is urging retail giant Walmart to immediately adopt new animal welfare guidelines prohibiting their pork suppliers from confining pigs in crates so small they cannot even turn around – something a growing number of food providers have already done…