IOWA CITY, Iowa, July 2 (UPI) -- Several retailers said they would no longer buy pork from Iowa Select after a video of animal abuse was made public.
Costco Wholesale of Issaquah, Wash., said its supplier, JBS Swift, a Colorado company, would no longer be buying pork from a farm where a video showed piglets castrated without painkillers and thrown across a room, The Seattle Times reported Saturday.
Retailers Safeway and Kroger also said they would boycott Iowa Select products.
In a statement, Costco said it would "insist … through an ongoing audit that all such humane procedures are being followed."
Iowa Select called the video clip "unacceptable animal handling."
In the film, an employee says, "Pigs are very bouncy. It's like a roller-coaster ride for piglets," referring to the piglets being thrown around.
Several states are considering a different approach, Iowa among them.
That approach is to make filming factory farms a felony, the newspaper said.
