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MOVE OVER MISS PIGGY… THERE’S A NEW GIRL IN TOWN TYSON + TAKEDOWN MAYIM BIALIK HOW MFA’S INVESTIGATOR CAUSED TV’S VEGAN SUPERSTAR THIS CORPORATE GIANT TO CHANGE SPARKS A BIG BANG One student, who also worked part time on This year, MFA celebrates its 15th anniversary the teacher’s pig farm, stepped forward and of working to prevent cruelty to farmed NEWSWATCH proceeded to grab the baby piglet by her animals and promote compassionate food hind legs and violently slam her headfirst into choices and policies. the ground. A room full of stunned students looked on in horror and disgust. This issue of CL features a special timeline that runs across the bottom of each page, Even after this second assault, this brave highlighting MFA’s growth, successes, and Please Don’t Pass the TCBY AND piglet didn’t die. Determined to survive, she achievements over these past 15 years. THE KING MEAT, DAIRY, or SEAFOOD held on, now bleeding from the mouth, her CHIPOTLE skull severely fractured. And we’ve accomplished so much — together. We’ve brought animal abusers Holding back tears, a student grabbed the to justice, securing dozens of criminal EMBRACE piglet, left the classroom, frantically ran down convictions against those who beat, kick, IS DEAD! the hall, and found another teacher, one and torture farmed animals. We’ve helped known for her sympathy and compassion pass precedent-setting state laws that ban Beef is actually not what’s toward animals. some of the most inhumane factory farming practices. We’ve taken on multibillion-dollar for dinner in more and Californians were super excited last summer She left the school, rushing to the nearby corporations and won, pressuring them In a huge victory for more American homes. when Chipotle launched its delicious veterinarian’s office. Moments later, the to make meaningful policy In fact, beef consumption suffering was over. The piglet was euthanized. changes. We’ve directly rescued hundreds of farmed animals across animals from lives of misery on factory farms. has been on the downturn new Sofritas — braised tofu with spices — Days later, animal cruelty charges were leveled And we’ve inspired millions upon millions of throughout the state. Now the mega chain against the student and teacher involved in people to move toward a vegan diet, sparing the nation, the dangerous for years in the U.S. and the incident. A firestorm followed, pitting the lives of countless animals. is expected to drop has plans to take Sofritas nationwide. national pig farmer associations against local “King Amendment” to the animal protection advocates. And it’s all been possible because of you. another 5 percent Another vegan debut, TCBY’s almond- Executive Director Farm Bill was stopped dead in 2014. Americans In a standing-room-only courtroom, on We couldn’t have grown and accomplished aren’t swapping cows based chocolate frozen yogurt, was so the first day of the trial, the judge did the so much without you, our valued members, in its tracks. Sponsored by unthinkable: he dismissed the case. But not volunteers, donors, and supporters. Our for fish either. Seafood hugely successful that the company has without reason. He had little choice, given our lifeblood. Our heart. Our team. the notoriously anti-animal consumption is in the introduced an incredibly tasty vanilla country’s broken legal system, which fails to midst of a DEAR FRIENDS, fully protect farmed animals from abuse. As we look back, we also look ahead to the seven-year flavor, now available throughout the U.S. next 15 years with great excitement. I’ve Steve King of Iowa, the nosedive. Got milk? Not , like the majority of U.S. states, exempts never been more hopeful or optimistic about so much anymore. Milk It all started with a piglet, a schoolteacher, and an act of cruelty to a farmed animal from the future of the animal protection movement. King Amendment would a broken legal system 15 short years ago. legal prosecution if it is considered “standard I know, in my heart, that we will prevail in has seen a whopping agricultural practice.” This case died, because bringing about a society in which all animals have wiped out virtually 40 percent decrease in It was a warm spring morning at Graham the act of slamming baby piglets headfirst into are treated with the respect and compassion High School, a quaint school nested between the ground is, in fact, considered a “standard” they so rightly deserve. consumption since 1970. farmhouses and cornfields off a small country and acceptable practice by the pork industry. every state law protecting road in Saint Paris, Ohio. As the bell rang, It’s a barbaric practice that is nonetheless The future is ours for the shaping. Let’s create students of the agricultural studies class carried out countless times a day at pig farms something beautiful. farmed animals from even gathered for the day’s assignment: dissection. across our nation. The teacher, a pig farmer, arrived earlier that the most horrific cruelty. morning with a bucket full of piglets he had This sickening case, which unfolded virtually Sincerely, FOSTER FARMS killed that morning on his farm — or at least in my own backyard, compelled me to act. attempted to kill. Only 15 years old at the time, and armed only with a burning motivation to help stop the FIASCO Moments before the dissection project was to suffering of farmed animals, I took action. begin, students noticed something shocking: Foster Farms chicken is to blame for sickening hundreds with salmonella. one of the piglets was still alive. She was A few short months later, Mercy For Animals The outbreak came during a government shutdown when the USDA and blinking, lifting her head, and vocalizing. was born. Nathan Runkle Executive Director the Food Safety and Inspection Service websites were down, leaving millions in the dark and at risk. Just a couple of months later, Foster Farms was back in the news after a cockroach infestation Cover Photo by Mercy For Animals (MFA) is a 501(c)(3) dedicated to preventing was discovered at its Livingston poultry plant. Denise Borchert cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies. STOPPED!

Mercy For Animals is founded in Ohio following MFA’s first undercover investigation uncovers MFA releases Silent Suffering, a THE a brutal farmed animal abuse case involving a shocking cruelty at Ohio’s two largest egg factory landmark documentary exposing cruelty piglet slammed headfirst into the ground. 2000 farms and leads to the rescue of 34 hens. 2002 in the egg industry. TIMELINE MFA rescues 600 hens from Ohio’s largest egg Following MFA’s investigations, Giant Eagle Nathan Runkle, MFA’s founder, rescues Hope — a 1999 factory farm after a tornado destroys sheds, 2001 announces it will ban the sale of eggs from hens hen found in a trashcan at an egg factory farm. 1999 - 2014 leaving hens mangled in cage wire. who are starved to induce egg-laying cycles. Hope lives the rest of her life at a sanctuary.

2 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 3 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 MEET MFA Kate Ziegler ACTION REPORT STRENGTH IN MFA Position: Investigations and Research Associate NUM#ERS Hometown: , Illinois [email protected] Telling It Email: MFA’s anti-factory farming petitions have

Words to Live by: been going viral, with nearly a million “It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something Like It Is people demanding major retailers take the best people have always done.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe a stand against cruelty. Our MFA’s hard-hitting petition calling for an end to gestation nimal abusers better watch out for Kate Ziegler’s videos exposing the eagle eye. As investigations and research associate crates garnered 500,000 signatures alone, Afor Mercy For Animals, Kate works closely with routine cruelties of making it one of the most successful ever MFA’s director of investigations and legal team to review animal agriculture have on petition site Change.org. Among the and analyze undercover evidence, determine potential millions tweeting our petitions are A-listers violations of law, and serve criminals a heaping helping of been viewed online like justice. over 5 million times in Tony Kanal, Kate Mara, the past few months. Q: What inspired you to become vegan? and DESCHANEL. HOME From our undercover A good family friend told me about factory farming and its investigations to impact on animal welfare and the environment. Around the SWEETHOME same time, I saw a video of an undercover investigation compilation like on the Internet. The footage of abuse and neglect truly Our newly expanded Los Farm to Fridge and horrified me. I transitioned to a plant-based diet to help as Angeles headquarters, located many animals as possible. on Santa Monica Boulevard, Standard Practice, combines a creative, cutting- MFA’s videos are Q: Why are undercover investigations important? edge atmosphere with smart awakening viewers MFA’s undercover investigations reduce farmed animal flexibility. Complete with worldwide to the suffering. They have inspired individuals to choose conference facilities, a retail MEMBERS ON A MISSION a compassionate diet free of meat, dairy, and eggs, power of their food corporations to enact welfare policy changes, and storefront, and event space, choices. lawmakers to ban the cruelest forms of institutionalized MFA’s HQ is home to our Ellen Kennelly animal abuse. ever-expanding staff and team COMPASSION If there is something happening in the Boston area, of interns in our education, chances are Ellen Kennelly is there with her team of Q: How do you cope with viewing undercover videos of corporate outreach, legal WITHOUT BORDERS volunteers sharing MFA’s message of compassion. animal abuse? Ellen does it all, from leafleting and running MFA advocacy, investigations, exhibits at major festivals to delivering humane I’m reminded of just how important our work is when I development, and To combat the rise in meat consumption in hear of a high schooler adopting a vegetarian diet, or a education presentations and reaching out to communications departments. the developing world, MFA recently launched restaurants to expand their vegan menu offerings. multibillion-dollar company establishing animal welfare , , and a guidelines as a direct result of one of our investigations. EligeVeg.com CarneVideo.com Spending time with my family and trying new vegetarian month-long Spanish-language email series that guides people through the transition Joshua Sias recipes also helps me stay balanced. to a plant-based diet. This groundbreaking Cleveland Outreach Coordinator Joshua Sias started Q: What excites you about the future of MFA’s campaign aims to inspire more people in Latin working with MFA about five years ago. You can investigations department? usually find him volunteering alongside his partner, America to ditch meat. Similar sites and email series will soon launch in China and , Frances Cheng. As a philosophy scholar with a focus Growth! Every day, MFA receives résumés from individuals in ethics, Joshua presents the ethical arguments who love farmed animals and are interested in becoming helping MFA spread compassion worldwide. for a plant-based diet, while Frances, who holds a undercover investigators. More investigators mean more doctorate in medical science, explains the health investigations, and more investigations mean an increased benefits. A true activism power couple! awareness of the cruelty farmed animals endure.

Joining the campaign against the egg industry’s “Animal Care Certified” label, MFA reveals inhumane conditions inside an ACC egg farm. Soon after, the ChooseVeg.com. 2003 Federal Trade Commission announces the label will be discontinued nationwide. 2005 MFA launches

MFA launches groundbreaking pro- Protecting Animals US merges with VegNews magazine names Mercy For vegetarian advertisements on MTV, 2004 Mercy For Animals, expanding MFA’s 2006 Animals “Nonprofit of the Year.” BET, and Animal Planet. reach to Chicago.

4 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 5 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 ASKANYA | IRON VEGANFLAVOR

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Denny’s cuts ties with turkey Trader Joe’s cuts ties with Gemperle Enterprises after MFA’s “How much cruelty can you swallow?” pro- following MFA hidden- MFA exposes birds crammed in cages and workers kicking vegetarian ads on buses, trains, and billboards reach over 2007 camera investigation. and throwing hens at a Gemperle factory farm. 20 million commuters in Chicago, Boston, and Detroit.

MFA’s Hidden from View and Old MacDonald anti- Voters pass Prop 2, which bans intensive confinement of factory farming ads hit the airwaves in Chicago, 2008 hens, calves, and pigs in , just weeks after MFA Cleveland, and Columbus on MTV, MTV2, and Bravo. exposes bloody hens crammed in cages at Norco Ranch.

6 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 7 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 MISSION OF MERCY HOW ONE MFA INVESTIGATOR BROUGHT LANDMARK CHANGE Left: Pregnant pigs trapped in the cold metal and concrete of gestation crates. Right: Sick, injured, and slow-growing piglets TO TYSON FOODS AND are smashed headfirst into the ground. THE PORK INDUSTRY A SLEEPY TOWN’S DIRTY SECRET All that changed one dusty late-summer morning in the next few weeks, the hidden camera concealed in Pete’s clothing would September of 2013 when Pete (not his real name), a capture shocking brutality — and drive one of the country’s largest pork Tucked into the cornfields of rural Oklahoma Mercy For Animals undercover investigator, pulled into producers to put an end to cruel practices it had supported for decades. is Henryetta, a drowsy town of under 6,000 the parking lot for his first day of work at Henryetta’s residents. Originally springing up around a coal West Coast Farms. It wasn’t chance that had brought The abuse began almost from day one of Pete to rural Oklahoma. West Coast was a contract pig mine, Henryetta’s story over the past century is a pig’s life. Baby piglets were dragged typical of small-town America. As manufacturing farm for Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest pork grew in the 1940s and 1950s, Henryetta grew producers, a factory farming behemoth that processes away from their mothers shortly after with it. New plants and refineries brought an and kills 18 million pigs a year. they were born. influx of jobs to the city. But by the 1990s many of those plants had closed their doors. Henryetta’s Their tails were hacked off and their testicles cut out with a knife, all without population began to wane, and it seemed unlikely CULTURE OF CRUELTY painkillers. When piglets were sick or didn’t grow quickly enough, workers the town would ever play a prominent role on the killed them by lifting them high into the air and slamming them headfirst national stage. MFA had sent Pete to Henryetta with one mission: against the concrete. The practice, known as “thumping,” is routine in to shine a spotlight on the incredible cruelty Tyson the pork industry. As Pete’s video showed, some piglets who had been inflicts on innocent pigs. As an employee at West thumped were still alive and breathing a full 30 minutes later, no doubt in Coast Farms, Pete would be able to do just that. Over intense agony.

Following an MFA investigation at the largest egg factory farm in New England, the Maine MFA’s investigation at world’s largest hatchery exposes BOCA Foods removes eggs from all products in Department of Agriculture and state police carry out the first-ever raid on an egg farm for the standard industry practice of grinding up male chicks response to pressure from MFA and other animal animal cruelty. Grocery chains nationwide drop Quality Egg of New England as a supplier. alive and makes international headlines. protection groups.

Quality Egg pleads guilty to 10 civil counts of animal Bill to ban tail docking of dairy cows is introduced in New York following MFA releases award-winning 2009 cruelty and pays over $130,000 in fines — the largest fine MFA’s investigation into the state’s largest dairy farm. The investigation makes documentary Fowl Play. against an egg producer for animal abuse in history. national headlines and results in a prosecution for criminal animal cruelty.

8 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 9 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 / INVESTIGATION Dr. Temple Grandin, widely considered INVESTIGATION / the world’s leading authority on farmed animal welfare, spoke out on NBC News to condemn the farm’s cruelty. “Poking pigs in the eye multiple times, violently shaking a young piglet, beating a sow with the edge of TAKE THE a board — these are things I rate as ,” said Grandin. In the months that PIG followed, over 370,000 people signed a Mercy QUIZ For Animals petition on Change.org that demanded Tyson do away with 1. Pigs are as intelligent as gestation crates. a. a dog b. a horse c. a three-year-old child TYSON BREAKS

And then it happened. What Pete 2. Pigs encountered the day he laced up his work boots and walked into West Coast Farms a. are extremely social in rural Henryetta began to change on b. form close bonds January 8, 2014, when Tyson Foods sent a c. often sleep snout-to-snout letter to its suppliers setting forth a variety d. all of the above of meaningful animal welfare improvements. Slamming baby piglets headfirst into the ground would no longer be allowed on 3. When pigs are isolated from company-owned farms. And all of Tyson’s other pigs they become contract farmers were asked to provide mother pigs with enough room to stand, lie a. depressed down, turn around, and stretch their limbs. b. calmer TYSON’S SHAMEFUL When a pig, sick and crippled by life on a THE DAM BURSTS STANDARDS factory farm, had trouble walking, workers would beat her with a wooden board or jam After just a few short weeks at West Coast TYSON’S ABOUT-FACE MEANT 4. Pigs can learn to fingers into her eyes to get her to walk. Farms, Pete had compiled enough footage to document a pattern of routine brutality. MILLIONS OF PIGLETS AND a. read FOR PIGLETS WHO Meanwhile, pregnant pigs were confined What had been Henryetta’s dirty little secret b. manipulate objects on in tiny, maggot-infested “gestation crates” was about to become a source of national MOTHER PIGS FROM COAST TO verbal cue SURVIVED TO ADULTHOOD, — individual metal stalls so small the pigs outrage. c. play video games on a could not even turn around. In row after row, COAST WOULD BE SPARED FROM computer THINGS GOT EVEN WORSE. in stall after stall, these intelligent, social d. both b and c Video from MFA’s WORKERS VICIOUSLY mothers were driven mad by the extreme BRUTAL INJURY AND A LIFETIME confinement, their bodies riddled with open investigation soon OF INTENSIVE CONFINEMENT. PUNCHED PIGS, KICKED sores from constantly rubbing against the blanketed the media, cage bars. from multiple segments Top: Dead piglets were a common sight at THEM IN THE FACE, PULLED on NBC national news to And this change — this reversal of decades- While dozens of producers, grocery chains, this factory farm. Middle: Workers kick, old policies — all sprang from one very OUT THEIR HAIR, AND EVEN and fast-food outlets had pledged to end damning print coverage in punch, and beat animals daily. Bottom: Life brave investigator’s time on one hellish farm

The Washington Post, Los Answer Key: their use of gestation crates, Tyson had so in a crate is no life at all. d 4: a; 3: d; 2: c; 1: on the outskirts of Henryetta, Oklahoma. THREW A BOWLING BALL AT far stubbornly refused to change. Angeles Times, and other THEIR HEADS. media outlets.

With MFA’s support, a landmark animal welfare agreement MFA’s “Why love one but eat the other?” pro-vegetarian ad is reached in Ohio that places a moratorium on battery campaign is launched in Toronto, New York City, Las Vegas, New 2010 cage facilities and bans crates and gestation crates. Jersey, and Michigan, reaching over 14 million commuters.

MFA’s investigation at an Ohio dairy farm reveals cows beaten with crowbars and joins MFA, narrating new investigative video revealing cruelty to calves Through the first-ever undercover investigation into fish stabbed with pitchforks and leads to arrest and conviction of a farm worker. Celebrities at an Ohio veal factory farm. As a result, , the nation’s third-largest grocer, slaughter in the U.S., MFA exposes catfish being skinned from Ashton Kutcher to Jamie Lee Curtis speak out against farmed animal cruelty. implements a new policy banning the sale of veal from calves confined in veal crates. and dismembered while still conscious and suffering.

10 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 11 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 What can readers expect from Can you speak to the health benefits Hypothetical: A good friend from Mayim’s Vegan Table? of being vegan? out of town pays a surprise visit. Using MUSTKNOW only what you have in your fridge, I put together a book with pediatric There are so many health benefits. For what do you make? nutritionist Dr. Jay Gordon of actual recipes me, not having sinus infections, having I make for my kids and for all the non- my seasonal allergies reduced, and not In a pinch, I’d probably make pasta with vegans in my life. It doesn’t involve a lot of constantly having stomach aches have been sauce and sautéed vegetables and I’d also MAYIM BIALIK: fancy ingredients and most of the recipes wonderful benefits of being vegan. whip up an easy vegan pesto with nuts and are very simple. spinach and herbs if I had those around. A VEGAN Blossoms My sons eat a large variety of fruits and What are some fast and easy recipes vegetables to get all the nutrients they need and they’ve never been on antibiotics, Mayim Bialik is no stranger to the that kids love? nor have they had any significant allergy spotlight. Who can forget her dazzling problems or intestinal problems that are performance as a young C.C. Bloom One of the things I talk about in the book often associated with eating dairy. () in Beaches, or her wildly is teaching your children — and yourself successful television show Blossom, in — to enjoy foods in their natural state. which she played the title role? Some of my sons’ favorite snacks are fruits You’ve veganized classic Jewish and veggies with fun dips and some of dishes like potato latkes and matzo ball their favorite meals are simple things like Now playing Dr. Amy Fowler on . What’s your secret to creating hugely popular CBS The Big burritos, taco salads, and chili. Bang Theory (fun fact: Mayim actually amazing new versions of traditional holds a doctorate in neuroscience), MUSTKNOW RECIPE Can you offer some tips for people favorites? Mayim’s career is hotter than ever! who feel they just don’t have time to The key in making traditional recipes of any Tell us about your journey to TOMATO SOUP WITH A dedicated vegan, Mayim has created cook? kind vegan is that they need to taste good! Mayim’s Vegan Table, a fantastic new becoming a vegan. ISRAELI COUSCOUS I don’t want people to say, “These are great I cook in advance and freeze things, and as cookbook jam-packed with over 100 vegan latkes.” I simply want people to say, I discuss in the book, I often feed my kids delicious and simple recipes. I’ve been vegetarian since I was 19, 2 tablespoons olive oil “These are great latkes!” largely for reasons. I cut 1 onion, chopped pretty simply and save the more labor- out most dairy in college, and about intensive recipes for special occasions. WE RECENTLY HAD THE PLEASURE OF 1 to 2 carrots, diced six years ago, after reading Eating 1 (14-ounce) can chopped tomatoes CHATTING WITH MAYIM ABOUT HER LATEST Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, I cut 6 garlic cloves, roughly chopped ROLE AS REAL-LIFE VEGAN SUPERSTAR. out all trace eggs and dairy. Obviously 6 1/4 cups vegan vegetable stock MUSTKNOW RECIPE | MAC N CHEEZ for me it’s been a gradual process. 1 to 1 1/2 cups uncooked Israeli couscous • 1 (16-ounce) package pasta, such as farfalle, rigatoni, penne, shells, or large macaroni How does going vegan reflect 2 to 3 mint sprigs, chopped, or several • 1 1/4 cups nondairy milk (almond milk works best) your personal ethics regarding pinches of dried mint • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour or white or brown rice flour 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin • 1 (8-ounce) bag shredded vegan cheese, preferably mozzarella or cheddar animals? 1/4 bunch fresh cilantro or about 5 • 1/2 cup bread crumbs (optional) sprigs, chopped Going vegan was a huge nod to Salt and freshly ground pepper my love for animals and the guilt I 1. Cook the pasta according to the package directions. Drain when al dente felt even as a small child for eating and place in a large bowl. 2. Preheat the oven to 350°F. animals. I do not believe it is our right 1. Heat the olive oil in a large pan, add 3. Heat 1 cup of the nondairy milk in a medium saucepan over medium heat. to abuse animals for our use of their the onion and carrots, and cook over 4. In a cup, whisk the flour into the remaining cup of milk until dissolved. Add meat and by-products simply because medium-low for about 10 minutes until it slowly to the heated milk, whisking as you go. Add the shredded vegan we are human. softened. Add the tomatoes, half of the cheese and stir constantly until the cheese is dissolved and the sauce is garlic, vegetable stock, couscous, mint, bubbly, about 5 minutes. Pour over the pasta mixture and stir to combine. There was no way for me to reconcile cumin, and cilantro. the inherent inhumanity of the 2. Bring the soup to a boil, add the remain- If desired, place the pasta in a 9 by 13-inch casserole dish and cover with the business of making animals into our ing chopped garlic, then lower the heat bread crumbs. Bake, covered, for 20 minutes. Uncover and broil until browned food and clothing, so I simply chose slightly and simmer gently for 7 to 10 on top, about 5 minutes. SERVES 8 to happily avoid being a part of those minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the industries! couscous is just tender. Season to taste From Mayim’s Vegan Table: More Than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to with salt and pepper. SERVES 4–6 Yours by Mayim Bialik with Dr. Jay Gordon. Reprinted courtesy of Da Capo Lifelong Books.

The owner and seven workers at a Texas factory farm are charged with criminal animal cruelty after MFA An MFA investigation into Butterball, the largest turkey meat producer in the country, exposes workers bashing in the skulls of calves with hammers and pickaxes. The investigation sparks documents horrific cruelty to turkeys and leads to a police raid and criminal charges against five national outrage, causes the live-cattle stock price to drop, and leads the AVMA to condemn the abuse. workers. The case results in the first felony-level conviction for cruelty to factory-farmed birds.

MFA reveals McDonald’s egg suppliers in three states cramming birds The owner of an illegal slaughter operation is arrested and charged with 2011 into cages, torturing hens, and throwing live chicks into trash bins. 10 counts of cruelty after MFA obtains hidden-camera footage of barbaric Following coverage on 20/20, McDonald’s drops company as supplier. animal abuse. Dozens of animals are rescued and placed at a sanctuary.

12 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 13 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 INVESTIGATION / Each time I begin an investigation So many cows had open wounds, crusted sores, and infected masses the size of at a farm, I try to prepare myself baseballs. I was completely overwhelmed, emotionally for what I will see. yet it was just another day in the life of a dairy cow on a modern dairy factory farm. Yet nothing can fully prepare a compassionate person for the cruelties I witnessed at Wiese Brothers Farms LIGHT: THE BEST DISINFECTANT in Wisconsin, where I worked as an Thankfully, Mercy For Animals brought the undercover investigator for Mercy For footage I captured to light so that millions Animals in October of 2013. of people could see for themselves the routine abuses these animals endured. Media outlets around the globe, including AT THE TIME, WIESE BROTHERS NBC national news, ABC News, the WAS A MAJOR SUPPLIER TO , and the British Daily Mail covered the story, and DiGiorno quickly cut DIGIORNO PIZZA, WHICH IS OWNED ties with the farm. BY NESTLÉ, THE LARGEST DAIRY SUPPLIER IN THE WORLD. Also as a result of my hidden-camera video, four workers documented committing On today’s industrialized dairy farms, cows horrific acts of abuse — violently kicking, are pushed to their limits to produce far stabbing, and beating cows and cruelly Top: A sick cow is dragged by her more milk than they ever would naturally. hoisting them into the air — are being held neck with a chain attached to a tractor. Between that and the filthy, unsanitary accountable for their actions: convicted of a Middle: Workers beat, whip, and stab conditions they are kept in, many get so total of seven counts of animal cruelty and cows to force them to move. Bottom: sick they cannot walk or even stand. I saw ordered to pay fines in excess of $3,300. Frightened cows are hoisted into the air, more of these “downed” cows at Wiese putting them at great risk of injury. Brothers than I could count.

Workers were constantly annoyed that the downed cows wouldn’t walk where they wanted them to go. They screamed things like “You whore!” or “You worthless piece of …” and other vulgarities I can’t repeat here, all while beating the cows with whips, violently stabbing them, or kicking them in the face. A CRIPPLED COW NUMBERED ONE UNDERCOVER MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER “12695” (LILY TO ME), FLAILED IN THE AIR AS HER HINDQUARTERS INVESTIGATOR’S She was cow 17545 to the factory farm, but she was Maggie WERE HOISTED UP OFF THE GROUND HEARTBREAKING to me. I named her after my childhood dog because her deep, innocent brown eyes reminded me of her. The thick red blood WITH METAL CHAINS ATTACHED TO STORY ABOUT THE dripping from her nose and mouth was heartbreaking. It had A TRACTOR. LILY FRANTICALLY TRIED TREATMENT OF COWS become caked onto her skin. TO HOLD HERSELF UP AS HER HEAD DRAGGED ON THE FLOOR. ON A DIGIORNO I had no idea how long she had been bleeding, or what caused it, but nobody was worried about helping her but me. And yet I SUPPLIER FARM couldn’t.

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MFA is now calling on DiGiorno to adopt meaningful animal welfare policies for its FAB FACT: dairy suppliers, including: Cows are highly It’s the same melty mouthfeel • Zero tolerance for animal abuse intelligent and friendly you grew up loving. • A safe, sanitary environment for cattle animals who can form “DRAGGING LIVE COWS, AND long-lasting, deep bonds of • Proper care and transportation for sick, READY TO CHILL? injured, and downed animals COMPLETELY SUSPENDING friendship with other cows THEM WITH THE COW LIFT Whether it’s margherita, pepperoni, Italian • Prohibition on mutilations without and even their human IS SEVERE ANIMAL ABUSE. sausage, or “Cheeze-Lover’s” that strikes your painkillers, including tail docking — caregivers. Cows have a cruel and outdated practice that THE ACTIONS OF THESE fancy, Tofurky and Daiya frozen pizzas have got involves cutting through skin, nerves, extremely complex social you covered. and bones PEOPLE WENT BEYOND ROUGH HANDLING AND groups and tend to choose Over 60,000 people have already signed the herd leaders for their MFA’s Change.org petition asking DiGiorno ESCALATED TO THE LEVEL OF FAB FACT: to adopt these basic reforms. You can sign CRUELTY. KICKING, BEATING, intelligence, experience, 100 percent cholesterol-free and it at www.SliceofCruelty.com. AND HARD WHIPPING OF and good social skills. no bovine growth hormones. COMPASSIONATE DOWNED COWS IS ABUSIVE.” CONSUMPTION With each investigation we undertake, DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN, we expose the hidden abuses animals suffer so that people can make informed THE WORLD’S LEADING EXPERT food choices. While MFA is making great ON FARMED ANIMAL WELFARE strides in creating a kinder world for farmed animals, horrific animal abuse continues to Join MFA in urging DiGiorno executives to do the run rampant in the dairy industry. right thing. Don’t let them avoid this issue. If TAKE ACTION you dislike animal abuse, share your thoughts Our simple choice to put soy milk in our coffee, to leave cheese off of our veggie on DiGiorno’s Facebook page. You can also tweet burgers, or to have a delicious pizza with SLICEOFCRUELTY.COM your opposition @DiGiorno or email the execs and Daiya vegan cheese on top makes a world tell them the time to end cruelty is now. of difference for these animals.

MFA Canada garners national attention with the nation’s first-ever undercover investigation into the pork industry. Just months later, the country’s eight 2012 largest grocery retailers pledge to phase out the use of cruel gestation crates.

MFA goes international with the founding of Law enforcement charges the owner and seven workers at Ontario Mercy For Animals Canada. Sales with 24 counts of cruelty to animals after MFA reveals workers throwing, hitting, and neglecting downed animals.

16 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 17 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 Q Q Unlike her brothers and How has living with Esther What has been the overall changed your lives and inspired your reaction from people to your story? INTERVIEW sisters, who were fated to be activism? raised on a factory farm and The reaction has been overwhelmingly We always had this disconnect between positive. We can’t even tell you how killed at a slaughterhouse, animals we loved so dearly at home like many people pour their hearts out to Esther had the good fortune dogs and cats, and animals we ate like us because Esther made them realize pigs, cows, and chickens. For whatever things. It’s our story all over again and of being adopted into a loving reason, we were able to look the other it’s because people are building a home. Little did her adopters way when “those trucks” went by on the relationship with this incredible pig that highway. Esther changed all of that. they can’t ignore. We call it “the Esther know at the time, however, effect.” Esther was not the miniature Falling in love with Esther made us want to find another way to live. Pigs house pig they expected. are sensitive, loving, and extremely Q Now that Esther is a star, does No, Esther was a full-blown intelligent creatures. Not just a bar code she have an agent? Has she met Miss on a package of . Learning how Piggy? “farm” pig, bred for pork, easy going vegan was made us decide we needed to share our story. who grew to be over 300 (Laughs) Esther is a very grounded piggy, so for now, she’s trying to ignore pounds! Q How does living with a pig the glimmering lights of Hollywood. She hasn’t met Miss Piggy because we have We were super excited to sit down with compare to living with dogs and a feeling she’s mad at us. We put in an Esther’s dads, Steve and Derek, and get cats? innocent call to Kermit, she found out, up-to-speed on the latest in the life of and apparently she wasn’t happy. We’re their popular pig. She is so smart it blows our minds almost really hoping we can all move past it. daily. Early on, for example, she learned Esther has never really been into frogs PRIME Q where we kept our “human” food. She anyway, not that there’s anything wrong What inspired you to invite a figured out how to open the cupboards with that. pig into your family? and would pull everything out in a panic trying to eat anything she could. This usually resulted in her getting caught by It was a very unplanned thing. I got a call Q What’s next for Esther and your at about 9 p.m. on a Friday night from us and sent for a “time-out.” a girl who had brought Esther home family? TIME to live with her family. I was told she Within a couple of weeks, she started wasn’t getting along with their dogs and breaking the process down into steps. We have known for a while that we, or needed to be rehomed ASAP. By 9 a.m. She would open the cupboard then walk should I say Esther, have outgrown our Saturday, Esther was in my arms. away as if she was waiting to see if we house and we need to move. We’ve heard her. Then she would go back and decided that we want to purchase a farm pull out the basket, and walk away again. and open our own sanctuary, dedicated Q Finally, on the third trip, she would grab PIG At first you believed Esther to Esther and other abandoned or what she wanted and literally run out of abused commercially farmed animals. would grow to be only 70 pounds. the kitchen to the bedroom frantically Esther What was your reaction when you trying to eat her prize. It was as if she We want to create a place where MOVE OVER MISS realized she would grow to be over knew her chances of success were visitors can interact with our animals. greater if she took her time and didn’t We also want to provide vegetarian and 300 pounds? cause a fuss. She was right! vegan cooking classes to show how PIGGY, THERE’S A NEW delicious and easy it can be to live a Pretty much every emotion you can As for similarities, she loves to play and compassionate lifestyle. GIRL IN TOWN. think of, we felt. We asked ourselves the wrestle. Esther wants nothing more than typical questions: How can we possibly to be cuddled on the couch or have her keep her? What’s the town going to say? belly rubbed. She gets excited to see us Meet Esther the Wonder Pig! She’s a real-life pig We had already fallen in love with her, so when we come home. who is changing the hearts and minds of people giving her up was not an option. around the globe.

Days before Thanksgiving, MFA makes MFA goes undercover at the largest foie gras factory farm in the U.S., exposing headlines by once again exposing cruelty at cruel force-feeding of ducks. MFA launches campaign to pressure Amazon.com — 2012 Butterball factory farms. the world’s largest online retailer — to ban the sale of foie gras.

A hidden-camera investigation by MFA at the largest dairy farm in Idaho documents Costco and pledge to phase out gestation crates following an MFA egregious cruelty and leads Kraft Foods to ban tail docking of and Wendy’s investigation at a Minnesota pig factory farm. Bob Barker joins MFA’s 2013 to drop the farm as a supplier. Three workers are charged with criminal animal cruelty. campaign to end Walmart’s use of gestation crates in its supply chain.

18 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 19 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 Denied proper veterinary care, many of the INVESTIGATION birds at Hybrid suffer from open, pus-filled wounds, rotting eyes, and festering infections. MFA Canada’s investigator told management about one bird whose eye infections were so bad that she had gone blind in both eyes and was unable to find food or water. Management coldly replied that as long as the bird was laying TURKEY eggs, her condition didn’t matter. MFA Canada immediately reported Hybrid’s unconscionable animal abuse to law enforcement. Based on the compelling hidden- TORTURE camera video footage, law enforcement initiated its own criminal investigation. The investigation is still pending.

While our courageous investigators continue to BRED TO SUFFER expose the sickening realities of factory farming, and our devoted legal team steadfastly pursues justice on behalf of abused farmed animals, the In November 2013, President Obama ONCE A TURKEY BECOMES TOO SICK best thing consumers can do to prevent the “pardoned” two turkeys, Caramel and needless suffering of these sensitive creatures Popcorn, as part of a Thanksgiving OR INJURED TO PRODUCE EGGS, SHE IS REMOVED FROM HER PEN AND is to leave turkeys and other farmed animals off tradition that is more about good PR for their plates. the turkey industry than anything else. BEATEN TO DEATH WITH A METAL PIPE OR SHOVEL. Although these two birds were spared Do your part: make a commitment to a gruesome death and dismemberment After reviewing the undercover footage, Dr. Ian explore a healthy and compassionate at the slaughterhouse, they did not live plant-based diet. happily ever after. They both died several Duncan, one of the world’s foremost experts on poultry welfare, described the handling of weeks later, as did all of the turkeys Also, please share our investigation with “pardoned” by Obama over the years. the birds at Hybrid as “gratuitous cruelty.” Dr. Sara Shields, another leading poultry expert, your friends and family so that as many characterized the undercover footage as “some people as possible learn the horrible In a race to increase factory farming profits, truth about factory farming. Online at domesticated turkeys like Caramel and of the most severe abuse” that she had yet “Their flesh has grown so fast, and their heart and their witnessed. TurkeyTorture.ca. Popcorn have been bred for rapid growth and become bones and their other organs can’t catch up,” Dean so large so quickly that they often die of heart attacks Norton, the director in charge of the pardoned turkeys at a very young age and suffer from obesity-related at Mount Vernon, explained to CNN. “The organs … health problems. that are in this bird are meant for a smaller bird. They just can’t handle the extra weight, so they end up Top: Heavy turkeys For many domesticated turkeys in the world, including living not as long.” are dragged and Caramel and Popcorn, this genetic manipulation thrown by their and debilitating obesity begin at Hybrid Turkeys, In addition to turkeys being purposely bred to suffer fragile wings. TURKEYS: the second-largest turkey producer in the world and and die young, the investigation at Hybrid revealed Bottom: Rotting the subject of a recent Mercy For Animals Canada turkeys being punched, kicked, and thrown by eyes and other TALENTED AND TENDERHEARTED undercover investigation. workers, brutally beaten with shovels and metal rods, severe injuries are and crowded into filthy warehouses, left to die from left untreated. In the wild, turkeys are sleek, agile, and able to fly. horrific injuries and illnesses. Turkeys are remarkable creatures who and have been observed to feel sorrow so These magnificent birds can live for more than a decade; in fact, the oldest known wild turkey lived to These unnaturally large turkeys are also too big to play, dance, nurture their young, and deeply that they die alongside their lost the age of 13. Keith Williams, a spokesman for the reproduce naturally. Workers at Hybrid manually “milk” communicate over distances as great as a companions. Chicks begin roosting in trees turkey industry’s trade association, admits that unlike the male turkeys for semen. They then violently grab mile with 20 distinct vocalizations. They with their mothers as young as two weeks, their wild counterparts, domesticated turkeys only the females, shove their heads to the ground, and ram have a “life expectancy of about 18 weeks.” a tube into them to artificially inseminate them. form lifelong friendships with each other, and mother turkeys will fight ferociously to and humans too. Turkeys grieve their dead protect their chicks.

MFA reveals cruelty at a factory farm owned by Four workers are charged and convicted of cruelty to Randy Spronk, president of the National Pork animals after MFA documents sickening abuse at a 2013 Producers Council. DiGiorno cheese supplier.

MFA Canada investigation exposes more cruelty to Tyson implements sweeping new animal welfare hens by a McDonald’s egg supplier. guidelines after MFA uncovers harrowing cruelty at a Tyson pig factory farm in Oklahoma.

20 COMPASSIONATE LIVING SUMMER 2014 GOOD HEARTS crates and prohibiting tail docking, and have resulted in dozens of successful WHAT YOU CAN DO vs. BLOOD MONEY criminal prosecutions of farmed animal abuse. After Iowa became the first state to enact an ag-gag law in 2011, a Des Moines newspaper reported that Iowa governor SINCE 2011, FOUR GO VEG Terry Branstad, senate bill sponsor Joe STATES — IOWA, UTAH, Withdrawing your financial support Seng, and several other legislators who from industries that abuse animals supported the bill received close to a MISSOURI, AND IDAHO — and seek to keep that abuse hidden million dollars from influential agricultural HAVE ENACTED AG-GAG from public view is the single most interests like the Iowa Pork Producers powerful action you can take to Association, Iowa Beef Products, and Iowa LAWS, SOME OF WHICH prevent needless cruelty to animals. Select Farms (the target of a 2011 Mercy ARE CURRENTLY BEING For Animals investigation). CHALLENGED IN COURT. A similar report showed that the agricultural Thanks to overwhelming opposition EXPOSE FACTORY industry in Idaho “donated” over half a from compassionate activists nationwide, million dollars to Governor Butch Otter and FARM CRUELTY however, that number pales in comparison the various state legislators who supported to the 18 states in which ag-gag bills have the state’s ag-gag law. Use social media to share been defeated. MeatVideo.com and other In the absence of any meaningful animal undercover factory farming footage But our work is not done yet. As we welfare laws, investigators play a crucial with as many people as you can. continue to expose the horrific practices of role in the protection of farmed animals. the factory farming industry, we can be sure that the industry will keep trying to enact MFA’s investigations, for example, have ag-gag laws. TAKE A STAND been instrumental in the passage of state ballot initiatives that ended some of the We must continue showing lawmakers that If an ag-gag bill is introduced in your worst forms of intensive confinement, the vast majority of Americans strongly state, contact your lawmakers and have led major corporations to implement oppose attempts to stifle undercover urge them to oppose the bill. Ask meaningful animal welfare policy changes, investigations. Together, we can be an your friends and family to do the including eliminating veal and gestation HIDING THE TRUTH: unwavering voice for farmed animals. same. SPEAK OUT THE STATE OF AG-GAG Submit an editorial to your local paper. Engage others in the fight against ag-gag by educating people Undercover investigations of factory But instead of cleaning up its act and Known as “ag-gag” laws, they pose a on the horrors of factory farming. farms document gut-wrenching cruelty doing away with its cruelest practices, the serious threat to us all. to animals. Criminal prosecutions follow industry has promoted legislation across the an investigation if the abuse is vicious country designed to criminalize undercover These dangerous laws jeopardize the or sadistic enough, which it often is. investigations. integrity of the food supply, pose a risk to Major corporations drop the factory farm the environment, and impair workers’ rights. as a supplier. Media coverage of the Some of these laws impose an outright Ag-gag laws prevent detection of any LAY OF THE investigation is widespread. And the public ban on filming inside a factory farm criminal activity occurring within a factory is outraged. or slaughterhouse. Others prevent farm or slaughterhouse. LAND: AG-GAG investigators from denying affiliation with THESE VICTORIES HAVE an animal protection group when applying They are also an affront to the long- for jobs as farm workers. Some even standing principle that we as consumers In an attempt to stifle the COST THE FACTORY impose a one-sided “mandatory reporting” have a right to know where our food comes requirement that involves turning over all from and should be able to engage in growing number of undercover FARMING INDUSTRY ITS States With Ag-Gag Laws video evidence of farmed animal abuse. meaningful discourse about something as investigations documenting PROFITS. important as the food we eat. States Where Ag-Gag Bills Were Defeated States Still Considering Ag-Gag Bills In 2014 the horrors of the meat, egg, and dairy industries, many MFA Canada exposes cruelty to chicks at Maple states have introduced or Leaf Foods, the country’s largest meat producer. 2014 enacted “ag-gag” legislation. CELEBRATES Check out this map for the lay MFA Canada’s hidden camera documents unconscionable Canada’s three largest retailers ban sale of veal from calves of the land. cruelty at world’s largest turkey breeding company and confined in crates after an MFA Canada investigation reveals leads to company-wide changes. heartbreaking cruelty at a major veal supplier.

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