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Factory farm pigs are
typically raised in small pens with slatted or concrete
floors and metal bars.
These conditions
are for life.
“Downed”
pig (too sick even to stand) and a dead pig left behind
in a slaughterhouse holding area.
Pigs who died in
transit are dumped behind a truck at the slaughterhouse.
"Death losses during transport are too high -- amounting
to more than $8 million per year. But it doesn't take a
lot of imagination to figure out why we load as many hogs
on a truck as we do. It's cheaper... Even with a zero
death rate that might be associated with providing more
space on the truck, the hogs we save would not be enough
to pay for the increased transportation costs of hauling
fewer hogs on a load." (Lancaster Farming, October
27, 1990)
The body of a
hog hoisted into the back of a rendering truck to be
ground up and used in animal feed, fertilizer, and other
rendering products.
Factory farm
sows are forced to give birth and nurse their young in
small metal 'furrowing crates'.
Sows nurse their young for two to three weeks in the
furrowing crate before being re-impregnated.
The bars at the
rear force this sow to remain on the ground.
She has no natural contact with her offspring, who feed
through the bars.
The sows become
so bored and anxious in this confinement that they
repeatedly gnaw the bars of the cage.
A female pig
attempts to escape from a gestation crate.
Abrasions near her eyes are caused by constantly rubbing
against the crate's metal bars.
Confined sows
are unable to turn around
they suffer serious mental disorders
