DENVER — None of the workers caught on undercover video hitting pigs at a Colorado farm will face criminal charges.
Phillips County Undersheriff Thomas Elliott said Wednesday the district attorney concluded the abuse wasn’t bad enough to warrant charges. He noted the workers involved have all been fired.
Seaboard Foods fired the five workers and two supervisors after Mercy For Animals filmed employees hitting animals with cans and boards at the northeastern Colorado farm.
Seaboard Foods says the handling of the pigs, which happened while they were being loaded onto trucks, is “unacceptable and inexcusable” and violates its standards.
Another recent undercover video by Mercy For Animals showed workers at a now-closed New Mexico dairy whipping, kicking and punching cows. That footage led to animal cruelty charges against four men last month.
