Factory farmed pigs.

This is a post about how pigs are farmed, i find this to be a subject that not many people are aware about and i have chosen to write about pigs because foods such as bacon and sausages are one of the most common.

• Pigs are more intelligent than dogs and they were once wild animals in britian.
• They now live locked away in prisons for meat.
• More than 90% of piglets are now factory farmed.
• Investigations in factory farms have show dead, diseased and dying animals.
• In almost every fattening unit is glaring neglect and indifference: Broken legs, Abscesses, Ruptured stomach's, Animals coughing with pneumonia, Others panting from meningitis, Cuts and Lacerations from the perforated metal on which they are forced to live.
• Piglets live for only a small period of time, they are killed at around 5 months young for meat. They are mainly killed for produce such as bacon, sausages, ham and pork.
• 'Breeding Stock' pigs are kept for producing piglets which are then killed for meat as mentioned above. Breeding stock pigs usually give birth in a small farrowing crate on a concrete floor, the bars on the crates stop the mother pigs from being able to move at all, it is so bad that they cannot take a step forward of backward, this casused major back and leg problems.
• The bars of a farrowing crate also stop mother pigs from having contact with her newborn. Her piglets are taken away from her at the early age of 4 weeks and after 5 days of them being taken away the mother is then made pregnant again, her misery continues.

       

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