EU pig farm investigation by Compassion in World Farming

Compassion in World Farmings recent investigation into pig farming in six EU Member States suggests that the vast majority of pigs reared in the EU are being farmed illegally. EU legislation requires pigs to be given sufficient straw or similar rooting material so that they can engage in their natural behaviours of investigating and manipulating their environment. However, most EU pigs are reared in fully slatted systems where such provision is almost impossible.

Bored and frustrated in the barren world of the factory farm, pigs sometimes bite each others tails. To prevent this farmers often dock cut off part of the tail. Routine tail-docking is prohibited - farmers must try to prevent tail biting by improving the conditions in which the pigs are kept. Yet despite the ban on routine tail-docking, a report by EFSA shows that over 90% of pigs in the EU are tail-docked.

Take action: www.ciwf.org.uk/pigs_scandal

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[mjndblain]

why are all documentary show dubbed by english people?

[rupertshean]

its so saddening we do this to animals. thanks for posting this and spreading the message.

[TheBigBadWoIf]

@AlexRichardVocat thanks.

[AlexRichardVocat]

@TheBigBadWoIf Depends on your taste. Cheese tastes good because of parasites within it. It's also to do with what your used to. If someone offered you pig with essence of parasite I'm sure you wouldn't find it palattable. But there are a great deal of microbes in everything we eat, even if uninentional. It's to do with what your used to. Your tastes are heavily dependent on what you've been subjected to. Thus many people who never had mussels growing up find them distasteful in adult life.

[TheBigBadWoIf]

@AlexRichardVocat so the answer is yes?

[AlexRichardVocat]

@TheBigBadWoIf I don't want to have a go but the fact that badly reared meat tastes worse should not have any effect on your moral opposition to such rearing. It may be true, but if it wasn't it doesn't make bad rearing right. I met a guy on the street campaigning for better welfare who said how meat was unhealthy for us because we haven't adapted fully from when we were largely herbivores. Fair enough, but why should that make me feel more strongly about the cause? It's selfish.

[Rohit84up]

WE worship pigs (varaha) in india. Its shame to see how our gods are treated in europe.

[TheBigBadWoIf]

a damn shame. doesn't this also lessen the quality of the meat? i mean taste-wise?

[salvagebar]

At 4:05 - grabbed my kibbles-and-bits in sympathy. I feel your pain, piglet. I feel your pain.

[latoonaa1]

i think its not good ideas to treat animal badly, they also have brain to reason, i keep pigs in uganda to empower local women in uganda, its on you tube, title PIG MADNESS.