For Speedy Launch:
February 1, 2023
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Xenia, Ohio – PETA has simply obtained U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) information that reveal a employee beating a pig at Bob Evans Farms in Xenia—the newest in a string of unlawful horrors on the slaughterhouse. In response, the group fired off a letter in the present day to the corporate’s president and CEO, Mark Delahanty, calling on him to livestream video footage from the slaughterhouse to assist stop extra egregious struggling.
On September 15, 2022, a USDA inspector noticed a employee hit a sow “with extreme power on the facet of the face” after which “use power whereas utilizing each of his arms to rapidly push [a metal] gate into the precise facet of the sow,” who cried out. The incident occurred simply weeks after a trucker was noticed kneeling on the backs of crying sows and caps off years of staff ineffectively capturing animals and leaving them aware—even whereas slashing one’s throat. In whole, the slaughterhouse has been warned a minimum of six occasions lately about violating federal legislation.
“This facility is hell on Earth for animals, the place pigs have been abused and shot time and again as they scream,” says PETA Vice President Daniel Paden. “PETA is looking on Bob Evans Farms to livestream its operations publicly and reminds everybody that the one humane meal is a vegan one.”
PETA has additionally requested Delahanty to report the employees concerned within the incidents to native law-enforcement officers and reassign these people to positions that don’t contain having contact with stay animals.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals are usually not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Delahanty follows.
February 1, 2023
Mark Delahanty
President and CEO
Bob Evans Farms Inc.
Pricey Mr. Delahanty:
Given the newest U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) stories detailing {that a} employee beat a sow, a truck driver kneeled on sows’ backs, and different issues at Bob Evans Farms’ slaughterhouse in Xenia, we ask that you just instantly alter operations there as a way to cut back animal struggling. An extended historical past of alarming incidents on the facility underscores the necessity for important adjustments:
- On September 15, 2022, a USDA inspector noticed a employee hit a sow “with extreme power on the facet of the face” after which “use power whereas utilizing each of his arms to rapidly push [a metal] gate into the precise facet of the sow,” who cried out.
- Lower than a month earlier, a truck driver kneeled on sows’ backs, and the animals had been “vocalizing loudly” in response.
- In November 2021, a employee shot a sow close to her proper ear with a captive-bolt gun, leaving her aware and crying out.
- In August 2020, a employee ineffectively shot a downed pig and minimize her throat, after which the severely injured animal cried out.
- In 2018, a downed pig continued to cry out after staff shot her within the head twice, and yet one more stored upright on her forelimbs and cried out after two pictures to the top and makes an attempt by staff to slash her throat.
Will you please publicly livestream video from all areas of this facility the place stay animals are dealt with? Employees may take their obligation to deal with animals lawfully extra critically in the event that they knew caring folks had been watching. On the very least, will you reassign the workers referenced within the federal stories to jobs that don’t contain having contact with any stay animals and report the concerned personnel to native legislation enforcement for investigation for attainable violations of Ohio’s anti-cruelty statute? Thanks to your consideration.
Sincerely,
Daniel Paden
Vice President of Proof Evaluation
Cruelty Investigations Division
