Monday, July 11, 2011

Stories from Behind the Walls

If you go behind the walls the industry erects to hide the truth, you will find the situation worse than you could have imagined.

When I saw what life is really like for pigs on today’s farms, I was left feeling physically sick for days. I suppose I knew they lived on concrete, indoors in factory farms. However, I was not prepared for the intensity of their confinement, and the awful reality of their boredom.

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In the gestation shed, I heard a constant clanging noise. It was the sows hitting their heads against their cage doors as if trying to escape. After a while, some would give up and lie down, while others again took up their futile action.

I saw the pens where pigs are fattened up for slaughter – essentially concrete cells, each holding about a dozen pigs (left). In one pen, there was a pig missing an ear. Another had a rupture the size of a grapefruit protruding from his stomach (above). A dead pig was constantly nudged and licked by others (below, right). The stench in these places is overwhelming.

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