Protect pigs by reading Ann Paddock’s post (below) and calling your senator to tell them to vote NO to a provision that allows pig farms to continue using hideously barbaric farrowing crates. Ann writes:
Pigs and hogs are confined in gestation crates (typically 2 feet by 7 feet so she can’t turn around) for the entirety of their pregnancy (roughly 4 months). About a week before she is due to give birth, she is transferred to a farrowing crate (equally restrictive) for 3-4 weeks until the piglets are weaned. The piglets are taken from her and she is transferred back to a gestation crate, impregnated again and the whole cycle continues until she cannot continue and is sent to be slaughtered.
She includes an excerpt from Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times article What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know:
“The stakes of the Save Our Bacon provision (which allows pork producers to continue to use gestation crates) added to this years farm bill that was passed by the House of Representatives and now goes to the Senate are enormous, for more than 120 million hogs are slaughtered in the United States each year. That is approximately equivalent to the human populations of California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania put together and means that roughly four pigs are slaughtered every second, on average, around the clock.”
The National Pork Producers Council is a non-profit that makes millions (!!!) from the immense suffering of pigs. Read Ann Paddock’s whole post:
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