Each year millions of Americans eat ham on Easter. But how
many actually think about where it comes from? Sadly, at today’s factory farms,
piglets are routinely mutilated—their tails docked, their teeth clipped, their
testicles ripped out—without painkillers, and mother pigs endure nearly a
lifetime of extreme confinement in filthy metal crates. All pigs meet the same violent,
bloody death.
Mercy For Animals has documented workers viciously beating
pigs with shovels and metal rods and slamming piglets headfirst onto concrete
floors (a standard practice called “thumping).
Like all animals raised for food, pigs endure hellish lives
at factory farms from the moment they’re born until they’re brutally killed.
These 12 stills from our undercover investigations prove it.
1. A piglet undergoing castration without painkillers
2. Pigs crammed in small metal cages without room to even
turn around
3. Organs spilling out of a dead piglet left to rot
4. A piglet slammed headfirst against the concrete floor
5. A pig screaming in a pool of blood
6. A pig gnawing on bars as her only means of mental
stimulation
7. A pig forced to sit in another’s blood while she
awaits a similar fate
8. A piglet having her teeth ground down without any pain
relief
9. A pig who froze to death while being transported to
the slaughterhouse
10. A pig biting her metal cage out of
frustration
11. Piglets covered
in blood from having their tails sliced off
12. Pigs forced to watch their friends die
Pigs are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world.
They can play video games with more focus and success than chimps. Like all
animals, pigs are sensitive and emotional. They feel fear, stress, and pain.
One can only imagine the torment these animals endure day in and day out for
the merciless meat industry.
It’s time to put our ethics on the table and stop eating pigs
and all other animals. We can live our values of kindness by switching to a
vegan diet. Click here to get started. And check out
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