Piglet Teeth Clipping and Tail Docking

Did you know that at least 80 per cent of piglets are mutilated every year in Britain? How do we know? The pig industry admits it.

Viva! recently filmed young piglets pulled out of their pens, having their back teeth cut off with pliers and their tails cut off with scissors. This despite routine mutilations supposedly being banned in the UK and Europe.

Viva! has filmed the mutilation of piglets. It happens on hundreds of British farms every single day. Experts say that it causes needless pain and suffering -- yet it usually happens without anaesthetic. Ask yourself: would we allow human babies to be treated this way?

The industry says that these mutilations are necessary to stop pigs attacking each other by tail biting and damaging their mother's teats. However, it is cramped factory farmed conditions that create these problems in the first place. Rules on so-called 'environmental enrichment' are a joke; with a farmer only needing to provide a football or chain hanging from the ceiling to remain within the law.

Highly intelligent animals, pigs are driven to despair and sometimes madness in these barren conditions -- and the sow cannot escape from her piglets because she is trapped in a cage. It's a 'catch 22' and the animals are the ones that suffer.

Help Viva! ban piglet teeth clipping and tail docking. Visit www.piggles.org.uk for more information.

Check out www.viva.org.uk for help going veggie.

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[Phattouch]

these animal rights people, do something about starving people in the world

[eguHmfic]

This man was very humane in what he did.  Quick. Didn't cause unnecessary pain. And saved the mom and other piglets from problems. Injections were quick. Meds sprayed on.

I guess you don't like cropped tails on dogs either. They are done the same quick and efficient way.

[shelagh57]

Not nice at all, but you can not compare a piglet to a human child

[renzo2407big]

nothing wrong with it man, its like circumcision; its for the good of the piglets as well as the sow. If you will not do this, the sow will likely suffer MMA or Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia, in layman's terms it is infection of the udders or breasts of the swine.

[molinobeer]

Whether you cut the piglet teeth or you allow them to tear the mom's breasts. I have seen it live...

[bibimarlou]

dirty bastards, these people make me sick !!!!!!!

[1221solstice2012]

This is precisely why I'm vegan and every human being should be...there's no excuse for ANY of this, thank you for exposing this. There's a related Daily Mail article linked in my recent activity bulletins if you're interested.