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Vegetarian
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.
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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