...PETA and other groups found instances of workers "hurling small piglets onto a concrete floor" and beating them with metal rods, court documents show. The backlash caused producers to panic: Lynn Becker, chief operating officer of LB Pork, referred to one PETA video as "the 9/11 event of animal care in our industry," according to the progressive non-profit group Center for Constitutional Rights. ...

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