From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Hog farmer and ex-veterinarian Daryl
Larson, 46, on October 20, 1999 escaped conviction
for allegedly abandoning 315 pigs on a farm near
Wyoming, Iowa, when a Jones County District
Court jury declared it could not reach a unanimous
verdict. No date was set for retrial.
The starving pigs were found on October
27, 1998, cannibalizing the remains of others.
Larson was previously convicted of leaving hogs to
starve in Clinton County, Iowa, in 1997; abandoning
as many as 2,000 hogs to starve near Craig,
Missouri, in 1995; not properly disposing of the
remains of 261 hogs who starved on his land near Des
Moines in 1994; and not properly disposing of about
300 hogs who allegedly starved on another of his
Iowa properties in 1993.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Humane organizations challenged
routine abuses at milk and meat production
facilities in Arizona, Florida, New
Jersey, and Virginia during October and
November 1999, winning one case out of
court, with the other outcomes pending.
Accepting a consent agreement
instead of facing cruelty charges,
McArthur Farms of Okeechobee, Florida,
is to help the University of Florida and the
Florida Agriculture Depart-ment develop a
training program to teach staff how to
properly kill culled calves; pay up to
$27,500 to produce training materials;

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