The farrowing crate is one of the very worst of factory farming's hidden horrors. Hundreds of thousands of pregnant sows are shut into these tiny cages a week before they give birth - and remain imprisoned until their piglets are three to four weeks old. The crate is just inches wider and longer than the sow's own body: for up to thirty-five days, every four or five months, she can do nothing but stand up, lie down, suckle her piglets and stare at a blank wall. This terrible frustration can turn into aggression: more than one-in-eight piglets are savaged to death by their own mothers. Limbs aching from inactivity, skin rubbed raw by the bars and their maternal instincts utterly frustrated, mother pigs suffer from stress, pain and psychological torture in the crate.
Many piglets are born into their mother's excrement. After that, they are confined to the tiny, barren "creep" area next to the cage - with nothing to do but suckle and fight over their mother's milk. By three weeks old wild piglets are normally found up to 30 metres from the sow, exploring their environment and trying out new foods - no such stimulation for these intelligent, curious little animals in the crate. After a month of confinement and misery, the piglets are "weaned", ie taken away to be fattened for slaughter. Weaning takes place months before it should naturally occur and the piglets, unused to solid food, suffer from scours - pitiful, wasting diarrhoea. They are then given a cocktail of drugs on a daily basis. Their mothers, meanwhile, are given just a few days before being reimpregnated, and starting the whole 16 week cycle again.
The farrowing crate is designed with one purpose only: to maximise the 'production' of pigs. All considerations of animal welfare are sacrificed to that goal. It is, therefore, not just an appalling practice in its own right, but a symbol of everything that is evil about factory farming. That is why this campaign is so important. Viva! is committed to the abolition of the farrowing crate not just for its own sake but as an integral part of the struggle to end factory farming and meat consumption itself.
Source: VIVA!
Photo: Compassion in World Farming
Please read also here => Animal Aid: The Suffering of Farmed Pigs
Version Francaise: ICI
Je suis en train de faire des recherches sur le confinement des truies en stalles en ce moment, et c'est vraiment triste de voir toutes ces truies vivant misérablement dans de telles conditions. Les cochons sont des animaux profondément intelligents, qui ressentent la souffrance tout comme nous et ne devraient pas avoir à subir de tels traitements.
Tous les animaux ressentent la souffrance, tout comme nous. Pour celles et ceux d'entres vous qui ont des chiens, il est prouvé que les cochons sont aussi intelligents que les chiens... la preuve en image : regardez justement la vidéo ci- dessous, qui en dit long sur les cochons, et sur leur intelligence...
... L'histoire de Bella est une belle histoire car au final elle s'en sort plutôt bien, mais ce n'est pas le cas des millions de cochons qui se font massacrer pour leur viande... ce que vous pouvez y faire ? Ne pas manger de viande, c'est ce qu'il y a de mieux ! Et faites le savoir autour de vous !
La compassion c'est la seule solution...
Merci de votre attention, et bonne journée, sous la pluie...
Noemie.
PS: Vous avez peut remarqué, la page d'accueil du photoblog a changé...
