O'ahu Slaughterhouse

When these photographs were taken at the Farmer's Livestock Co-op slaughterhouse in Ewa, Hawaii, the pigs shown had just hours to live. All were sentenced to death later that day (26 July 2001). But their death may have been a relief because they most likely were born in Canada where they were kept in small cages, males castrated without anesthesia and subjected to other painful and inhumane abuses, fattened up with drugs, trucked to California, and then the long, sickening trip half way across the Pacific in the bowels of a freighter. They undoubtedly traveled in overcrowded and deplorable conditions, stacked in small crates, one on top of another. And once they arrived in "paradise," they were soon scheduled for slaughter.

A dismembered pig is loaded into van.

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