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BIRTHDAY
MFA WAS CREATED IN OCTOBER OF THE YEAR 1999 -
WEAVER BROTHERS EGG FARM
MERCY FOR ANIMALS.COMA major egg producer in Ohio, Weaver Brothers Egg Farm subjects millions of hens to a life of deprivation, confinement, and neglect. Video footage recorded at this United Egg Producers' "Animal Care Certified" facility reveals hens coated in feces and packed in tiny cages, birds suffering untreated infections, corpses left to rot on cage floors, birds trapped in cage wire, and a live hen left to die in a trash bin. -
OHIO FRESH EGGS
As Ohio's largest egg factory farm, Ohio Fresh Eggs confines millions of hens in restrictive battery cages, where the birds live each day confined so tightly that they are unable to walk, spread their wings, or engage in other simple, natural behaviors. Undercover video from this facility reveals birds suffering from open wounds and infections, dead birds rotting in cages with hens still producing eggs for human consumption, live hens in trash bins, and other deplorable abuses that are commonpla -
HOUSE OF RAEFORD FARMS
Working in the "live-hang" area of this massive turkey slaughterhouse (where live birds are snapped into shackles on the slaughter line), MFA's investigator secretly filmed workers throwing, punching, kicking and ripping the heads off of live birds -
COUNTRY VIEW FAMILY FARMS
MFA's investigation at Country View Family Farms provided consumers with a jarring glimpse into the nightmarish world of pork production, documenting the standard practice of keeping thousands of pregnant pigs confined in two-feet wide metal stalls called "gestation crates" that are so small that they could only take one step forward or backward and could not turn around or lie down comfortably. -
CONKLIN DAIRY FARMS
Hidden camera video recorded at this Central Ohio dairy farm reveals sadistic and malicious cruelty to cows and newborn calves. The undercover footage exposes animals being beaten in the face with metal pipes, repeatedly stabbed with pitchforks, having their tails broken, and being kicked, thrown, and punched by employees. -
E6 CATTLE CO
Undercover footage from this factory farm - which raises over 10,000 calves for use on dairy farms - documented workers bludgeoning calves with pickaxes and hammers, burning out their horns without painkillers, standing on their necks, pulling them by their ears, and leaving them to suffer without veterinary care. -
ONTARIO LIVESTOCK SALES
An MFA investigator documented an ongoing pattern of cruelty, egregious violence, and severe neglect at Ontario Livestock Sales, one of the oldest and largest livestock auctions in southern California. Law enforcement charged the owner and seven employees with a total of twenty-one counts of animal cruelty after an MFA investigator exposed workers throwing, beating, stomping on, and kicking animals. "Downed" animals — those too sick or injured to walk — were sold, transported, and left to slowly -
PIPESTONE SYSTEM
An MFA investigator documented horrific animal abuse at this major Walmart pork supplier owned by Randy Spronk, the president of the National Pork Producers Council. During the investigation, workers were seen violently slamming conscious piglets headfirst against the ground, ripping off their tails and testicles without painkillers, hitting, throwing, and dropping pigs and piglets, and confining pregnant pigs in filthy, fly-infested gestation crates barely larger than their own bodies for nearl -
MAPLE LODGE FARMS
Hidden-camera footage obtained by Mercy For Animals Canada exposed rampant abuse and neglect at Maple Lodge Farms, Canada’s largest poultry producer. The graphic video shows birds frozen alive, scalded, violently shackled, and cut open while conscious and able to feel pain.
