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Board Denies Claims of Piggery Horror

Animals  (tags: animals, cannibalism, animal welfare, AnimalCruelty, animals, cruelty, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
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- 55 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
The Pork Industry Board is laughing off claims of cannibalism among pigs at a farm in Auckland, despite graphic footage released by an animal welfare group. Activist group NZ Open Rescue says it has taken two female piglets from the farm to save them
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Isabella Hillmayr (116)
Sunday May 11, 2008, 1:04 am
Cannibalism, tail and ear biting ARE VERY KNOWN to happen in intensive pig farming - that is why they cut off the tails in the first place to reduce incentives to pigs to chew on each other. Like rats, pigs will attack and consume each other when housed too closed together not having room to uphold social structure and behavior. So what is the question?
Next to chicken pigs are the cheapest and most cruel housed farm animals - the time between birth and slaughter being only a few weeks to months. Much faster than cattle. Female sows produce lots of offspring - soooooo - cruelty is even mroe present - farmers really do not care about 1 pig being lost - HORRIBLE!
 

Evert Jan Klein Velderman (217)
Sunday May 11, 2008, 7:32 am
Noted with grief. We should ban this by law.
 

Marisa S. (34)
Sunday May 11, 2008, 12:14 pm

I implore anyone who's reading this and eats meat to stop doing so. Please, it's the only way this kind of evil cruelty will stop. And it's the best way to save the Earth too.
 
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