Propaganda; disappointed that you are falling for this and posting on a conservative website. Most people know nothing about farming and will respond to this emotional propaganda.
The object of these people is to get rid of ALL animal agriculture.
I grew up on a farm raising pigs and farmed myself for awhile raising pigs. Here are some facts. Baby pigs are born into litters of 9 to 12. They grow very fast and compete with each other for mama’s milk; they jostle and push each other. To keep them safe; they are in a farrowing stall with their 350 pound mother; the pigs weigh a pound or two at birth. The sow isn’t allowed to turn around; as she could easily crush the little ones.
At about day 2 or 3; I used to do some things to the pigs for their safety and health.
Clip their tails off. Pigs are chewers, and will chew each others tails as the grow to market weight.
Clip their needle teeth. These are sharp teeth on the sides of the mouth that protrude slightly. If those teeth are not clipped; you will see the litter of pigs bloodied as they fight for milk while nursing. 2 teeth per side if I remember correctly.
Castrate the males. Non castrated male pigs are inedible. They develop “boar taint” as they reach market weight and are aggressive. Boar taint is a hormone that the testicles develop and will make the meat smell like it.
And then give the pigs a couple of vaccinations.
I could do all of this to one pig in less than a minute. The pig went immediately back to the sow and would in many cases start nursing right away.
They would squeal during the castration part which took about 10 seconds. Squealing stopped after that.
Some baby pigs have to be euthanized. No one likes to do it, but some get injured or have some other condition. Most painless way is to take the pig and hit the head on a floor. Can’t imagine the pig will feel any pain from that as it is instant.
And pigs will die other ways including getting laid on in the farrowing stall by the sow. There will always be a few dead pigs to deal with. They need to taken out; some farms have an incinerator; some farms compost them. But there will be some.
Gestation crates are similar to farrowing stalls. That is where the sows go to be mated which is normally done through artificial insemination. If not in gestation crates, the sows will fight each other. It’s almost impossible to inseminate them outside of a crate. Natural mating are just not predictable or practical in today’s systems. Artificial insemination is very precise .
The sows sleep a lot; and yes they do chew on things when bored. Some farms will have something in there for them to chew on.
This line is utter bull$hit from the article.
“Gruesome: The bodies of dead and bloodied pigs are strewn around the farm. The sows are force fed dead piglets”
Pigs are NOT force fed to sows, never heard of such nonsense, pure propaganda. Dead pigs are NOT “strewn” around. As I said before there will be a few pigs that need to be disposed of; they may be collected before disposing off. No farmer would leave piles of dead animals in his buildings as it would be a disease vector. I have no doubt that these animal rights activists wouldn’t stage some things however. THEY HAVE DONE THIS FREQUENTLY in these videos.
Thank you for the education.
Those videos are very often STAGED. This is the part that people don't want to hear. They want to save the poor widdle animals.
Those sows would eat THEM.
Well said Sir!
Well said Sir!