02-13-2014, 07:45 PM
(02-13-2014, 03:50 PM)Catherine Wrote: Why did they ever house pigs like that in the first place?The intensive farmers would answer that pigs are happier in the warm, that keeping mothers confined in a cage prevents them lying on their baby piglets and crushing them, that piglets can be more easily supervised when all in one place, etc. I know all their arguments...they are just a cover, a whitewash.
The real truth: it was more productive and gave the farmers more profits. I have seen these awful cages with my own eyes on a French farm. The noise and heat is terrible. My younger son, when visiting us a few years ago, said these words to me after being shown round by a farmer:
"It was like a vision of hell - if it existed".
