£25
could push the food industry to commit to higher welfare standards, ending the terror and pain of piglet mutilation.
£50
could drive forward our campaign to convince the UK Government to halt the expansion of the factory farming industry, saving billions of farmed animals from a lifetime of suffering.
A female pig in an industrial farm can be less than a year old when she gives birth for the first time. Her piglets will be taken from her only three weeks later, and she won’t see them again.
The piglets’ teeth will be filed down, and their tails cut off – all without any pain relief. Then they’ll be packed so tightly together that they are pumped with antibiotics to stop infections spreading.
The mother pig, meanwhile, is artificially inseminated again and again. Each time, her piglets are taken away after just a few weeks. She spends the rest of her short life like this, with nothing to do in cages too small to turn around in.
Eventually her exhausted body begins to slow after near constant breeding – so she’s culled at only three years old.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Pigs are intelligent, sociable animals, and they are healthier when they have space to explore, the chance to see natural light, and the time to interact with each other.
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We’re collecting evidence of the hidden cruelty on pig factory farms, and we’re calling on the pig farming industry to stop forcing mother pigs to live in cages. But we can’t do it without you. Please donate today to help give pigs a life worth living.
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