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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: Listen: Activists Acquitted in Smithfield Pig Heist
Description: A widely watched case pitting animal welfare advocates against a Fortune 500 company has come to a conclusion and the results could have far-reaching implications in how the courts view the concept of “theft” versus “rescue.”In 2017, two members of an animal rights group called Direct Action Everywhere (or, DxE) were investigating conditions for pigs being raised for slaughter at Circle Four Farms, a Utah-based factory farm owned by Smithfield Foods.While on site, the two men – Wayne Hsiung and Paul Picklesimer – reportedly discovered two newborn piglets they determined to be sick and dangerously underweight. They then removed t...