{"id":9553,"date":"2011-07-06T18:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:07:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-06T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:07:55","slug":"MFA-s-Pig-Farm-Investigation-Stirs-Massive-Mainstream-Media-Exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9553","title":{"rendered":"MFA’s Pig Farm Investigation Stirs Massive Mainstream Media Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"

MFA’s latest investigation into Iowa Select Farms<\/a>, the largest pork producer in Iowa and fourth-largest in the nation, has garnered tons of mainstream media attention and raised awareness among millions of people about how the majority of pigs are raised and killed for food in the United States.<\/p>\n

From national and international media juggernauts to local print, TV and radio stations across the country, here is a quick roundup of some of that coverage:<\/p>\n

Print
\nCould a Barbaric Pig-Handling Video Hurt Major Grocery Chains?<\/a> – TIME Magazine
\nUndercover Video Gives the Dirt on Pigs in Factory Farms<\/a> – Wall Street Journal
\nAnimal Rights Group Releases Gruesome Undercover Footage<\/a> – Huffington Post
\nAnimal welfare group pressures grocers with videos<\/a> – Associated Press
\nPiglets thrown across a room and castrated without painkillers<\/a> – Daily Mail
\nVideo Footage Exposes Animal Abuse in US Pork Factory<\/a> – International Business Times
\nMore Documented Abuse of Iowa Animals<\/a> – Food Safety News
\nCostco stops buying pork from farm shown in undercover video<\/a> – Seattle Times
\nSupplier suspends purchases from Iowa Select Farms<\/a> – Chicago Tribune
\nAnimal welfare group uses undercover video to pressure grocers to stop buying from hog farm<\/a> – Washington Post
\nKroger acts after hog-farm video<\/a> – Columbus Dispatch
\nVideo maker: Hog confinement experience ‘will haunt me’<\/a> – Des Moines Register
\nThis Little Piggie Gets Tortured<\/a> – Cincinnati CityBeat
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