The return of the McRib has many celebrating, but not the Humane Society of the United States. They filed a legal complaint this week with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the company that supplies the pork to McDonald’s is misleading consumers about welfare practices.
Smithfield Foods is the company that provides the pork and McDonald’s claims the pork comes from pigs raised under humane and sustainable conditions.
An undercover investigation conducted by HSUS in 2010 revealed entirely different practices. According to an article from the Atlantic, the pigs were living in “hellish conditions.”
“Female pigs were crammed into gestation crates, preventing movement for most of their lives; many crates were coated in blood from the mouths of pigs chewing the metal bars of their crates; a sick pig was shot in the head with a captive bolt gun and thrown into a dumpster while still alive; prematurely born piglets routinely fell through the gate’s slats into a manure pit; castration and tail docking took place without anesthesia; and employees tossed baby pigs into carts as if they were stuffed animals. The investigator saw many lame pigs but never a vet.”
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