The conditions for breeding pigs in the UK filmed by Viva. Britain has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world, pig breeding factory farms don’t get much better than this, so enjoy this film.
Mother pigs, or sows, live most of their lives in metal crates so small that they can’t move around. They never see daylight and they lie on faeces-covered concrete floors. They are in constant pain and they are under severe mental stress by these conditions.
Since the sows can’t move their muscles atrophy,they wouldn't be able to move much even if allowed. The only thing they can do is stare at the metal bars, or chew on the metal bars. This is their life for about six years, with the aid of extreme amounts of antibiotics to survive. Yes, they do go insane.
The sows are impregnated by insemination. During pregnancy they live in a gestation crate, this is a crate so small that the sow cannot turn or take a step. When it’s time for her to give birth she is moved to a farrowing crate, this is a crate that will hold her in place lying down so that the piglets kept in an adjacent crate can nurse. After one month the piglets are taken away, the sow is inseminated again and moved back to a gestation crate.
This is what your skin looks like if you lie down for a month,
it is called bedsores.
The vile conditions these animals live in turn them into injured, diseased and insane creatures. Here’s a HSUS Report on Gestation Crates for Pregnant Sows.
This is the way we produce piglets, we do it like this because it’s cheap. We do it like this because caring about the sows would be more expensive, and we don’t want to pay for their well being. We want to do something fun with our money instead.
Spread your hate. Visit Piggles and sign his petition. Save Babe is the Australian movement for those of you down under. Check out The Humane Society International for other locations.
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