Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE 7/17/18

The animal rights nonprofit Mercy For Animals is releasing today an undercover video of a Tennessee-based pork supplier of JBS, the largest meat packing company in the world. The footage shows workers for Tosh Pork — which has about 30,000 sows who give birth to over 725,000 pigs each year — smashing the heads of piglets against the ground, kicking and punching them in their faces and ripping out the testicles and teeth of piglets without any pain relief, Pro's Maria Curi reports this morning.

It isn't the first time the Brazilian meat giant has come under fire for animal abuse. In 2011, Mercy For Animals investigatedanother one if its pork suppliers, Iowa Select Farms, revealing similar mistreatment. At the time, Iowa Select Farms' veterinarian Howard Hill — now president of the National Pork Producers Council — told ABC News the company has "a long-standing commitment to animal welfare" and had initiated an investigation. He also condemned anyone who would "video tape what they believe is animal abuse if they had a chance to stop it."