“I’ll never forget the way they looked up at me. They all shared the same look of helplessness and fear.”
—Tyler, a Mercy For Animals investigator
John,
Piglets like Poppy need you now more than ever.
Poppy was just an innocent baby born at a pig-breeding facility in southern Kentucky.
I learned about Poppy when I reviewed our undercover investigator’s daily log from his time at the facility.
Poppy was only a few weeks old, but she was covered in filth and scarred from the abuse she had already endured.
Workers separated Poppy from her mother, threw her around, and kept her in a windowless building on hard metal grates. Without painkillers, Poppy had her sensitive tail cut off and her teeth ground down.
Poppy watched as other piglets, those too sick or injured, were picked up by their hind legs, swung into the air, and slammed headfirst against the concrete floor—right in front of their mothers.
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Each body, callously thrown away like garbage, had been an individual life—someone who didn’t want to die.
Pigs are smart and sensitive animals. But at factory farms, they are treated like objects, worth only the price of their meat.
From birth to the day they are violently killed, pigs suffer lives of misery and deprivation.
At this same facility, workers roughly tore out piglets’ testicles. In one hidden-camera clip, a worker beats a pig with a metal rod again and again. In another, a sow is led down a corridor to her death, her prolapsed uterus hanging outside her body.
We must end this cycle of suffering.
Stand with the hundreds of people supporting our year-end match campaign.
Time is running out. Donate by midnight on December 31 and your gift will be matched—going twice as far for animals like Poppy.
Thank you.
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Diana Sanchez
Investigations Specialist, Latin America |
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