Slaughterhouse video attacks $864 billion meat industry

If you're having your Dukan Diet all-protein Thursday, you might want to skip this video, which is popping up all over Facebook. Otherwise, we hope you have a strong stomach. Here, you can see piglets getting slammed into the floor head-first, chickens having their beaks removed with hot blades, and animals squealing while getting tattooed using metal spikes. The 11+ minute attack on the $864 billion a year U.S. meat and poultry industry is brought to us by Mercy For Animals and is serenely narrated by Oscar-nominated James Cromwell. Outraged viewers monopolize the YouTube comments, joined by veganism advocates on Twitter. "11 minutes that your non-vegan friends should see," tweets @TheVeganVoice.

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