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It’s not “sometimes,” it’s “mostly.” > In the U.S., according to its National Pork Producers Council, 80 million of its 95 million pigs slaughtered each year a
by filoeleven 8y ago
It’s not “sometimes,” it’s “mostly.”
> In the U.S., according to its National Pork Producers Council, 80 million of its 95 million pigs slaughtered each year are reared in industrial settings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Contemporary_animal_production https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Con...
> pigs are placed in a crate made of iron bars that is the exact length and width of their bodies, so they can do nothing for their entire lives but stand on a concrete floor, never turn around, never see any outdoors, never even see their tails, never move more than an inch.
Much more disturbing text and images can be found at the source:
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missing-piglets-animal-rights-glenn-greenwald/ https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...
And that’s only for pigs. Conditions are no better for chickens or cows at factory farms.