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Opinion: My arrest and aborted prosecution underlined 3 lies Iowa is propagating about animal agriculture

 

Opinion: My arrest and aborted prosecution underlined 3 lies Iowa is propagating about animal agriculture


The government, in short, is an active collaborator in industrial animal cruelty. That animal abuse is routine does not make it acceptable.

Matt Johnson
Guest columnist
Published Jan 23, 2022 

The state of Iowa falsely accused me of “terrorism” for exposing animal abuse. They’re lying about the food system, too.

In the spring of 2020, a truck driver at Iowa Select Farms, one of the largest pig farming companies in the nation, reached out to me with a shocking allegation: Iowa Select was about to secretly roast thousands of healthy animals alive. The practice, which is called “ventilation shutdown,” or VSD, involves shutting down the cooling vents in a crowded factory farm, then pumping in boiling-hot steam to take the temperature even higher. The animals die of heat stroke, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest in a process that has been described as “being slowly suffocated and roasted to death.” It’s a cheap way to dispose of thousands of animals, which became a priority for the pig farming industry due to the closure of slaughterhouses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the slaughterhouses closed, the industry had nowhere to take the pigs, and didn’t want to bear the cost of continuing to house and feed them. VSD was the industry’s ghastly answer to that problem. 

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