The hogs were coughing as though they had bronchitis and some of them were covered in their own feces, he added.

The pens were saturated in ammonia and explosive gases. 'We got the tip of the iceberg,' Diener said.ДЄbout 20 pigs were crammed in a 55-square-foot tall stall, Diener said. They found four dead pigs and countless injured ones, he added. 'Consequently, we began our own undercover investigation,' Diener said.Д«etween September and December, Diener said they videotaped what they saw at three of the 58 sheds on the hog farm. In July, his request for a tour was denied. It was when some 12,000 pigs at Circle Four Farms died in a fire two years ago that Diener began to focus his attention on the hog farm, which is located south of Milford in southwestern Utah. 'Instead of being viewed as the sensitive animals they are, pigs are often seen as nothing more than mere commodities by today's agribusiness industry,' he said. 'Дiener insisted he and other members of his group followed the hog industry's guidelines by wearing protective clothing before entering the pig barns. 'These people put our herd at risk because they didn't follow our biosecurity protocol. 'It concerns us greatly that someone would break into our farms, especially in light of national concern about bioterriorism,' Jacobsen said in a prepared statement. Jacobsen said it was Diener and his group who put the pigs at risk by not following proper biosecurity procedure for protecting the animals. 'We're certain when people see the suffering that has been taking place they will take action by boycotting them.' 'We want to expose them to consumers,' Diener said. So now he hopes to raise public awareness and persuade lawmakers to change the law. 'We have contacted the sheriff's department' to investigated the alleged breaking in and theft of pigs, Erik Jacobsen, Circle Four Farms operations manager, said in a prepared statement.Дiener wanted to press charges, too, against Circle Four Farms but found that farm animals are exempt from Utah's animal-cruelty laws. It's too soon to say, but it could lead to charges of criminal trespassing and theft of the pigs. He says he even 'rescued' two pigs, took them to a veterinarian and then gave them asylum at an undisclosed sanctuary.Д«ut was it theft? The Beaver County Attorney's Office is pondering whether to press charges against Diener, director of United Animal Rights Coalition. Sean Diener admits he crept under cover of darkness into Circle Four Farms, a massive hog farm in remote Beaver County, to document what he says are cruel living conditions.

Liberated 2 full