My letter to Smithsfield Foods and Tyson
About their gestation crates, a horrible way of keeping livestock. Get rid of your gestation crates. The sad, sad truth about your criminal company. The incredible amount of torture shown in your horrendous facilities frightens me. The fact that you would tolerate such cruel people and torture of animals. How about we lock you in a crate, never able to move or get out. Your gums bleeding, teeth long since rotted away. Pain tearing through you due to the wounds scattered across your body. Sores eating away at you. Slowly going mad as thousands of people around you, friends and family, cry out for help, unheard by the people YOU hired. You watch as your child is thrown into a bin by worker. Your child screaming out to you for help as someone brings their fist down upon their head. You are powerless to help, but as you try to speak to them a whip licks your back, tearing at your skin, ripping open old wounds and filling your ba...