“PIGLET SMOOTHIE” FED TO SOWS TO PREVENT DISEASE; ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED

Source: NPR 
Animal welfare groups go to great lengths to show us how “the sausage” is made inside the factory-style farms that produce most of our meat. For the last few years, they’ve armed activists with video cameras and sent them to document alleged abuses or risky practices undercover. On Thursday, the Humane Society of the U.S. released its latest video – a look at how one hog farm in Kentucky is dealing with PEDv. The fast-spreading virus has killed more than two million piglets in 25 states in the U.S. in since April 2013. (read more)