This is a great victory!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mayra | January 22, 2009 05:12 PM

the latest 4h show in Waco ,texas a pig was drowned. since te pig was underweight they shoved a hose down its throat and drowned the pig. this performance was seen by studens.

Posted by: holly | January 22, 2009 05:23 PM

It took me a long time to wake up to what's going on in this world - now I have and Peta is a powerful tool - I become more involved every time I see a new email. I haven't eaten meat for a month now (beef for over a year) and not missing it at all. I am glad to help and do anything I can to save our little friends.

Shannon

Posted by: Shannon Shepherd | January 22, 2009 06:56 PM

Great news!

Posted by: Alesya | January 22, 2009 07:15 PM

Shannon, that's wonderful, I hope you feel so much more healthy!

Great news for animals; great news for humanity. :)

Posted by: Meech! | January 22, 2009 07:16 PM

wow.

Posted by: Gaby | January 22, 2009 08:16 PM

It's been a little over a year now since i had any type of animal meat and i don't miss it either. My health has improved and it makes me feel good mentally knowing that I can make a difference. I am the voice of one and strength of many!!!

Posted by: nancy | January 22, 2009 08:17 PM

There will be a 4H club thing in San Marcos TX very soon. I would like to demonstrate. Also,
I am now off meat, too. I think of those beautiful faces in PETA mag when I go to the store. Thank you PETA.

Posted by: Susan Ballarini | January 22, 2009 08:45 PM

What a great vicory.
As far as I'm concerned the punishment was not severe enough but hey, a few years ago it would not have even made it to court.
More power PETA !!!!!

Posted by: Lili Ochota | January 22, 2009 09:15 PM

Yeah!!!!!!!!!
Finally someone has been brought to justice! (too bad its such a short sentence and tiny fine). Hopefully this will prevent other similar unfortunate incidents! This goes to show how PETA's undercover operations make a difference! Donate to PETA! I did!

Posted by: Ola W | January 22, 2009 09:26 PM

The unsung brave men and women who are undercover investigators can't be thanked enough.

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 22, 2009 09:33 PM

Peta is the best. I thank God that there is someone out there to protect animal abuse around the world. What Peta must come across. I salute the people who go undercover.

Posted by: Debra Zarkivach | January 22, 2009 09:39 PM

this is a wonderful vicotry and hopefully there will be more of them... i have a little animal problem of my own, i live with 4 carnivores who mock my lifestyle constantly.. which i could deal with until now! see our house has a bit of a mouse plague and i don't want to use cruel traps or poison, so i cleaned the whole house, put food in plastic containers so nothing can get in and i have a catch and release style trap happening... but my stupid house mate refuses to put his food away and ruining all my good work and every time i try to explain to this neanderthal he tells me i'm stupid for not wanting to use traps!!! long story short.. what are the best, humane mehtods for ending my mouse problem???

Posted by: nicole | January 23, 2009 12:16 AM

This is fantastic and kudos to the judge for doing the right thing. I have been vegetarian for a long time and recently went vegan and I will never be going back. Every day animals are suffering for the needless pleasure of human consumption and it is only when people educate themselves and stop turning a blind eye to this that real change can occur.

Posted by: Lauren | January 23, 2009 04:29 AM

Thank god and thanks to Peta!!

Great job, y`all!

Posted by: chris gruber | January 23, 2009 06:23 AM

Great job Peta!!!
I just sorry that he can not be working with animals only for 6 months,this should be for life,next time he will be torturing animals he will just make sure that nobody sees it.Lorenza from Brasil.

Posted by: Lorenza Feitosa | January 23, 2009 08:16 AM

I applaud the PETA undercover team! I sure could not go undercover and witness slim balls beating animals I would go nuts and start beating the worker myself!!! I am happy the jerk pleaded guilty he had to he was caught on tape, but 650 fine and probation is a JOKE! Why can't we get more powerful judges who give life sentences to animal abusers!

Posted by: Missy L | January 23, 2009 09:46 AM

I to, am so pleased that this man (?) was punished for his abuse to the pigs. What about the jerk that was throwing the baby pigs on the cement? I had dreams for weeks after seeing that video. I do have to agree with many of the other comments that this idiot should NEVER be allowed around another animal. They do this with child abusers.

Posted by: Debbie Stone | January 23, 2009 09:48 AM

This is wonderful news!!! Thank-you to all the investigators involved and to give them strength to carry on so these intelligent souls don't die in vien....
Remember to go veg and put the animals raised for food where they should be, non-existent!!

Posted by: Carla | January 23, 2009 10:04 AM

What a victory for us all! Shame the sentence and fine were so small but this is a step in the right direction. Things can only get better!

Posted by: Holly | January 23, 2009 10:12 AM

Great! I´m really glad that he has been punished:-D.

Posted by: Michal Kolman | January 23, 2009 10:35 AM

Now if only some other porcine-abusing individuals could be brought to justice - a research team led by a U of Iowa professor have genetically engineered pigs to have Cystic Fibrosis because of "shortcomings of mouse models." The mice didn't develop the pancreatic or intestinal manifestations like humans...once again proving that animals do indeed make poor models for human disease (No sh*t - they aren't humans!).

Michael Welsh, MD led the genetic engineering team.
David Stoltz, MD PhD and David Meyerholz, DVM PhD are leading the research team utilizing the genetically engineered pigs.

In case anyone wishes to send their opinion to any of these individuals, here are their e-mail addresses:

michael-welsh@uiowa.edu
david-stoltz@uiowa.edu
david-meyerholz@uiowa.edu

Posted by: Derek, MD | January 23, 2009 10:43 AM

Thanks Derek!!

Posted by: Carla | January 23, 2009 10:54 AM

I forgot to mention one of the other lead authors from the U of Iowa. I wouldn't want him to feel left out.

christopher-rogers@uiowa.edu (co-lead author)

Posted by: Derek, MD | January 23, 2009 12:14 PM

derek, so you reckon cystic-fibrosis isn't worthy of all forms of research? I'm sure you can prove that animal experiments will not be at all useful.

Posted by: rojo | January 23, 2009 06:26 PM

NICOLE: I had the same problem with mice in a house full of carnivores (although they didn't make fun of me...) but they too were messy, didn't do their part. Keep putting those humane traps out. Remember to check them every day or even every half a day (they get hot in there) even when they aren't intentionally set though because I put one of the humane traps in a drawer and it unintentionally caught a mouse and it died a very slow, lonely, scared death. I found him weeks later! So make sure you put the traps upside down or in a way they won't trap something if you don't intend to. Then, when you catch those cute little rascals, drive them or walk them to the nearest field or natural place3 and let them go each one at the same place every time (so they can all meet up) and I promise, the'll be gone...it'll take a bunch of trips (it took me like 10 or so) and now they are all gone...and none (except the unlucky guy) died because of it and I feel good I did the right thing. Mice can find their way back to their original home...so take them a minimum of a block away...really. Good luck

Posted by: Jill | January 23, 2009 08:43 PM

All he got was a $800 fine and 6 months probation. Thats nothing that bastard should go to jail for 25 years.We need to change our laws and protect farm animals from abuse. Any one that abuses or tortures a farm animal to death should go to jail for 25 years.
From Alice

Posted by: Alice Fraser | January 23, 2009 08:47 PM

Let's hope this is the beginning of justice for all living creatures and that all the other factory farm abuse will not be a free for all without consequence. THANK YOU PETA! YOU ARE SHINING A LIGHT ON THE BARBARIC TORTURE THAT GOES ON EVERYDAY AS "PART OF THE JOB". THANK YOU!

Posted by: Caroline | January 24, 2009 02:30 AM

Let's hope this is just the beginning

Posted by: karen | January 24, 2009 08:21 PM

Way to go, Peta! Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Steve | January 24, 2009 08:28 PM

Good step forward!

Well done everyone involved.

Posted by: Elazanna | January 25, 2009 04:07 AM

rojo,

As a physician who has taken care of patients with CF, I know hows horrible the disease is and how young of children it can kill.

That, however, does not justify the use of animal testing. Since this is off topic, I will not spend additional time enlightening you to the truth behind the cruelty and ineffectiveness of animal testing.

Posted by: Derek, MD | January 25, 2009 09:07 AM

I currently am eating meat, but after watching this video, at school mind you, I am OFF meat! Oh and the candy that tests on animals. I am pressuring everyone else to join me.

Thank you so VERY much for the wake up call!
((Oh and, I live in Nebraska, to think that was happening a few minutes away!!))

Posted by: Dominique | January 26, 2009 02:12 PM

GREAT NEWS! NOW PLEASE GET THE TERRORISTS OUT OF OUR MILITARY. THE ONLY OTHER PLACE I HAVE EVER SEEN LIVE ANIMALS USED IN TRAUMA TRAINING IS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PRESIDENT HUSSEIN IN IRAQ!!!!!!!HUSSEINS HENCHMEN USE LIVE ANIMALS FOR TERRORIST TRAINING BECAUSE IT DESENSITIZES THEM. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Posted by: MA Moore | January 26, 2009 06:47 PM

the court peopl should of gave him more time.and they should of made him give them more money.plus they should of hit him how he hit the pig.thanks for the great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: rafael ramirez | January 27, 2009 02:01 PM

Deep felt thanks to Peta investigators. Yes, it's a step in the right direction and I'm grateful that the judge found Lyons guilty -but "guilty of livestock 'neglect' " hardly describes beating a pig at least 10 times on the back with a metal gate rod.

Posted by: lynda downie | January 27, 2009 10:59 PM

derek, finding it difficult to get my posts published, sorry.

since you started the off post comment perhaps you can categorically state that no benefit to CF sufferers can ever come from animal testing.

cheers

Posted by: rojo | February 1, 2009 04:59 AM

...PLUS he should have been hit 10 times on his back with a metal rod.

Posted by: Jud T. | June 26, 2009 02:14 PM

thats great!! Pigs should have the right to live, too. why cant the whole world just be vegan?? But anyway, i'm glad he got prison time.

~peace to all living things~

Posted by: Cara | July 22, 2009 12:27 PM