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Dear Friend, The horrors that an eyewitness found on a sprawling pig farm in Indiana are the stuff of nightmares: tiny piglets dying slowly, just out of reach of their distraught mothers … their bodies left to rot on filth-covered floors, sometimes in full view of their siblings.  On this farm, as many as 1,200 mother pigs are confined to metal crates barely any larger than their own bodies, some packed so tightly they can't move at all. They'll be forced to give birth in cramped crates—just inches above pits overflowing with their own waste—that prevent them from tending to their babies during the critical first few weeks of their lives. This is life inside a pig farm, and we need your help right now to change it. Please help PETA do more to stop animals' suffering by making a gift of just $3 today. Pigs used for breeding aren't able to walk freely or even turn around—confinement that leaves them with atrophied muscles and chronic pain. They receive no psychological stimulation or even a chance to engage in any natural behavior. Instead, they're repeatedly impregnated until their bodies wear out and they're sent to a slaughterhouse. The piglets who make it through their first few weeks of life will endure having their tails cut off by workers without any pain relief—their distressed mothers hearing every agonizing scream—and things won't get any better as they grow. On this Indiana farm, pigs were found with bloody sores, massive abscesses, and injured legs, shoulders, and hooves—all of which went untreated. Instead, sick and injured pigs were just left to languish, experiencing a slow, miserable death on a maggot-covered floor. Each one of the sensitive, intelligent animals who manages to survive this cruel ordeal will be violently killed and dismembered—their flesh turned into bacon or a holiday roast. Friend, we're going to do all that we can to stop this extreme suffering in the year ahead. If you don't want pigs—or any other animal—to face such horrors in 2020, please give $3 or more to help them. The Indiana farm exposed by an eyewitness previously had ties to JBS USA—a subsidiary of the world's largest slaughterer of farmed animals. But after viewing the footage we sent, the company quickly banned this hideous facility from its supply chain. When we take action for animals, we get results. But the relentless cruelty of the global meat industry goes far beyond any one farm—and PETA is determined to make it stop everywhere that it's taking place. Footage from this case is inspiring thousands to reconsider who is on their plates. It's no wonder we've sent out more than 320,000 free copies of our popular vegan starter kit in 2019 alone, and our colorful protests and eye-catching advertisements are sure to prompt a wave of consumers to order them in the year ahead. No animal should ever have to experience the nightmare that the eyewitness documented on that farm. Thank you for your compassion and for everything that you do to help pigs and the many other animals who need us. Kind regards, |
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This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA. |
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