"animals deserve better"

[Eddi]

 

[Rival]

Yes, my dad used to work on pig farms and this was common. It's known as an indoor unit.

Now the outdoor farms, outdoor units, are more common and this kind of thing doesn't happen on many of them. The pigs live in huts, essentially. I'm in England.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm for natural free ranged livestock.

Force feeding and confinement is sadistic imv.

Not all farms do that. Check the label for free range certification.

Better still, cultured meat for the future.

 

[metis]

I agree with the OP.

 

[Alien826]

The objective is to stop the sow lying on the piglets and killing them. As you see though, that restricts her movements greatly. The behavior they want to stop is probably caused by the restricted space she has anyway, which just piles cruelty on cruelty.

It's true that free range farming is coming in. I've seen (from the road) farms in England where the pigs have little huts for shelter and otherwise roam around. That's much better.

 

[Secret Chief]

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They do. What are you going to do about it?

 

[Secret Chief]

Yes, my dad used to work on pig farms and this was common. It's known as an indoor unit.

Now the outdoor farms, outdoor units, are more common and this kind of thing doesn't happen on many of them. The pigs live in huts, essentially. I'm in England.

In the UK
"Around 60 per cent of female pigs (sows) are kept in farrowing crates for up to five weeks, around the time they give birth (known as ‘farrowing’ in pigs)."

- Pigs | RSPCA Assured

 

[Rival]

The objective is to stop the sow lying on the piglets and killing them. As you see though, that restricts her movements greatly. The behavior they want to stop is probably caused by the restricted space she has anyway, which just piles cruelty on cruelty.

It's true that free range farming is coming in. I've seen (from the road) farms in England where the pigs have little huts for shelter and otherwise roam around. That's much better.

I remember once I was with dad on the farm we just had to go around picking up dead piglets and putting them in a bucket. The sows in the huts would crush them.

 

[Subduction Zone]

In the US if you eat pork or chicken it is all but guaranteed to come from a factory farm . For the consumer that keeps the price way down. Pork is a third of the price of beef, chicken is even less. But over 99% the meat that we see of both comes from factory farms. Pork and chicken also have a much smaller impact on AGW than beef. And even with cows the claim is 70% from factory farms, though I think that they may be counting the last few weeks of the animals life in that case. I do not think that they spend their whole life in the factory the way that pigs and chickens do:

99% of U.S. Farmed Animals Live on Factory Farms