CONTACT INFORMATION �
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PETA WRITES: Since Hormel has been receiving so many emails because of this investigation, you might receive a bounce-back email from the
company.
Hormel Foods Corporation
Consumer Response
1 Hormel Pl. / Austin, MN 55912
ph: 1-800-523-4635
web mail:
www.hormelfoods.com/contact.aspx
web mail:
www.hormelinternational.com/contact_us.asp
Jeffrey M. Ettinger, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Stevens, Director of Pork Procurement, Hormel Foods
Media Contacts / Corporate Information
media@hormel.com,
Katy.Hendrickson@bm.com,
brands@hormel.com
SOURCE:
www.hormelfoods.com/newsroom/press/default.aspx
Hormel Foods International Corporation:
dllongacre@hormel.com,
lgmarconi@hormel.com,
evcastillo@hormel.com,
hotolentino@hormel.com,
smartin@hormelfoods.com.au,
malilly@hormel.com,
stephenw@public.bta.net.cn,
sienna@public3.bta.net.cn,
bibik@a-1.net.cn,
rarogers@163bj.com,
msforbes@a-1.net.cn,
rszabo@sh163.net,
sneufeldt@hormel.com
SOURCE:
www.hormelinternational.com/regions.asp#austin
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Dear Hormel Foods Corporation:
I commend your zero-tolerance stance on animal abuse. I urge Hormel Foods Corporation, its international division, and all factions to take
this policy to heart.
As you are aware, a 9/16/08 video depicts workers at a Hormel supplier in Iowa battering pigs with metal gate rods. One supervisor thrusts a
cane into a sow's vagina and smacks her back some 17 times. Clothespins and fingers are poked into pigs' eyes and faces. Piglet's heads are
crushed against a floor and they're tossed into a bin to die. An obese worker clobbers a sow's back and reportedly sits on the animal's head.
Another beats a piglet's face with the rim of a herding board, a method that investigators saw repeatedly. An employee even spray paints the
nostrils of a nursing sow.
"Beat on the bitch. Make her cry," a supervisor advises, as he kicks a young pig's face, abdomen and genitals. The dismissive nature of these
workers indicates their cruelty is commonplace. How can Hormel monitor this single supplier � let alone all its producers, transporters,
and other employees � when egregious violence toward animals is routine?
I respectfully suggest you begin with the prompt termination and criminal prosecution of workers implicated this video, along with any
employees who neglect or hurt animals. Please require all Hormel suppliers to comply with basic animal welfare standards such as phasing out
gestation crates. It is widely known breeding sows cannot move in these cruel confinement systems where they endure months-long
pregnancy cycles.
In addition, Hormel can immediately install video surveillance cameras at factory farms. I also encourage you to take the "factory" out of farms
by advocating a more natural environment. Currently, pigs are denied space, sunlight, straw bedding, mud baths or anything intrinsic to pigs.
Please put some action behind the words in "Hormel Foods Position on Humane Handling."
Thank you,