Excelsior Hog Farm in Abbotsford is once again under scrutiny after new footage depicting horrific animal suffering was released by Animal Justice, revealing:
- dead and rotting pigs, including piglets whose carcasses were partially eaten;
- crushed and stillborn piglets inside crates;
- pigs kicked in the stomach and face;
- pigs jabbed with a metal rod and hit with plastic boards;
- pigs with hernias, prolapses, blood laceration and open wounds; and
- water troughs that appear to be filled with feces and blood.
The footage appears to “show some violations of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, potentially the Criminal Code and without a doubt violations of industry’s own subscribed national codes of practice,” according to the BC SPCA.
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