Outside observers say animal-cruelty videos extreme at best, at worst, staged: Ag industry, animal activists at war over videos showing abuse [Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.]

cases are pending. In the Iowa hog case, six workers have pleaded guilty to animal-cruelty charges. And Austin-based Hormel Foods Hormel received nearly 30,000 complaints after the Iowa hog-farm video went public. Nobody defends abusing animals. Yet,...