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class="body-container --no-cta "> <div class="body-copy wysiwyg-text-container --no-cta"> <p>At Farm Sanctuary, pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are lively and social; they run, play, relax, snuggle, and loll about in the mud. Their reputation for intelligence—boosted by popular books, movies, and robust social media presence—is well earned. Two decades have passed since <em>Wired</em> magazine reported that domestic pigs had been taught to play video games, with a Penn State animal-sciences professor noting that the pigs in his experiment learned to play games as quickly as chimpanzees, while also demonstrating greater attention spans for the task.</p> <p>Though human awareness of their sentience is both undeniable and increasing, humans continue to breed, imprison, and butcher pigs in exorbitant numbers, with nearly a quarter-billion pigs sold in the US each year. Particularly ruthless is the confinement of perpetually impregnated sows, utilized as pig factories and essential to large commercial pork production.</p> <p>Visitors who spend time with the pigs at Farm Sanctuary often leave with the impression that they are not so different from the dogs so many of us share our homes with—emotionally sensitive, playful and inquisitive, and always eager for a snack or a belly rub.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="timeline_module_1" class="fs-module fs-timeline" data-module-hash=jLQKZFfVKV> <div class="fs-container fs-timeline-content"> <h2 class="fs-timeline__headline">A Brief History of Pigs</h2> <div class="fs-timeline__year-bullets"> <button class="timeline-bullet-arrow timeline-arrow-prev" data-control-direction="<" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" aria-label="Up arrow - Go to previous set of dates of timeline slide" disabled > <span class="arrow"> <svg class="icon " role="img" title="" aria-hidden="true" aria-label=""> <use 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class="header">Even-Toed Ungulates Arrive on the Scene</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulates, are an order of hoofed mammals that bear weight on two toes—fossil evidence places their common ancestry in the early Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ago. Pigs and boars, hippos, llamas, sheep, goats, and camels all fall into the category. Whales and dolphins also evolved from two-toed ungulates. Fossil evidence of “Suidae” family members resembling pigs and boars dates to about 23 million years ago.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="1" > <p class="date">~2 million years ago to ~20,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Adaptability Makes for Good Genes</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Roughly 2 million years ago, while other Suidae family members were disappearing, members of the genus Sus, the modern pig’s genus, were scattered across the northern hemisphere. By 20,000 years ago “Sus scrofa”—the species of today’s wild boar and the closest genetic ancestor to domestic pigs—had spread across the world from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, adapting to survive on Himalayan hillsides and in the grasslands of North Africa.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="2" > <p class="date">~10,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Continuous, Widespread Domestication</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>While many theories exist about how wild pigs were domesticated—because they approached human settlements, for example, or were hunted ever more systematically—zooarchaeologists tend to agree that domestication occurred at both ends of Asia (and perhaps elsewhere), starting about 10,000 years ago. Since then, continuous mixing of wild boar populations with kept pigs has created a genetic melange as varied as that of any domesticated animal.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="3" > <p class="date">~2,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Ancient Avatars, Origin Tales, & Taboos</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>The shunning of pig’s meat as taboo may stem from concurrently held views of the animal as both dangerous and divine. In the Rigveda, a Hindu scripture compiled 3,000 years ago, a boar is said to have raised the earth from the primordial waters—an incarnation of the god Prajapati. In the ancient Greek city of Hieropolis, having been figuratively linked to Egyptian Osiris and Greek Adonis, pigs were not to be touched, sacrificed, or eaten.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="4" > <p class="date">~1450 CE</p> <p class="header">The Gastronomer’s Strong-Sniffing Ally</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>With a keen sense of smell and a natural inclination to root in the earth, pigs living amongst humans have been used to ferret out delicate underground truffles since the era of the Roman Empire, though the earliest substantive documentation of the practice came out of the Italian Renaissance. Historically, female pigs have been deployed more often, as truffles emit a scent similar to that of male pigs’ mating pheromones.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="5" > <p class="date">1945</p> <p class="header">Old Major</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, a boar named Old Major reveals his dream of a better future with his fellow barnyard animals, sharing his realization that humans only extract from the farm while animals work and suffer. His dream foments a farmed-animal revolution that seeks equality through “animalism.” Orwell’s extended metaphor gives parallel voice to domestic pigs and human laborers in an unprecedented way.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="6" > <p class="date">1953</p> <p class="header">Radiant, Terrific, Humble—That’ll Do, Pig</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In 1953, E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web was published—the story of Wilbur the pig, his friend Charlotte the spider, and how her web-spun praise saves him from slaughter. The book was the world’s best-selling children’s paperback for decades. Thirty years later, Dick King-Smith’s Babe, the Gallant Pig, told of a young pig’s efforts to be seen as more than food. Both stories prompted millions of people to consider otherwise overlooked animal perspectives.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="7" > <p class="date">1968</p> <p class="header">Intensive Confinement, Production, Stress</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>A photo from 1968 may be the oldest visual evidence of pigs living in gestation crates—indoor cages in which most farmed, pregnant sows in the US and worldwide endure their four-month pregnancies, without room to rest comfortably or turn around. While a few states have banned the practice, farm owners have built ever larger, more cramped pig-production facilities. Also in 1968, agricultural researchers coined the term “Porcine Stress Syndrome.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="8" > <p class="date">1976</p> <p class="header">Miss Piggy’s Muppet Show Feminism</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>The preeminent TV pig of the era, Miss Piggy brandished charm and karate chops as one of most thoroughly developed Muppets. She brought an anti-pork feminism to a 1978 duet of “I’m a Woman” with Raquel Welch. On “Pigs in Space,” the show’s long-running Star Trek spoof, she battled the sexism and incompetence of her boss, Captain Link Hogthrob. Gloria Steinem presented Piggy with a Sackler Center Award in 2015, given to honor extraordinary women.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="9" > <p class="date">2005 </p> <p class="header">Patenting Pig-Breeding Methods … and Pigs</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Over recent decades, the public has grown more aware of, and often chafed against, attempts by chemical and pharmaceutical companies’ to control the food supply by engineering and marketing crop seeds as intellectual property. One milestone that saw little public scrutiny was Monsanto’s 2005 attempt to patent not only pig-breeding methods, but the pigs that resulted from those methods as well as their genetic information.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="10" > <p class="date">2016</p> <p class="header">Hurricane Hits Pig-Manure Lagoons</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>As pig farming has industrialized, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (“CAFOs”)—also called “factory farms”—now raise and slaughter over 100 million pigs annually. One consequence is the production of bewildering amounts of waste, as each pig will produce more than its weight in feces each year. Much of this waste is pumped into open-air storage lagoons, at least 14 of which were submerged and dispersed by rains from 2016’s Hurricane Matthew.</p> </div> </div> <div class="content-container " data-content-index="11" > <p class="date">2019</p> <p class="header">A Vast Magnitude of Death for Pork</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In 2019 in the U.S., commercial “farmers” slaughtered nearly 130 million pigs—a number greater than the combined human populations of California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. That’s an average of more than 2 million—the population of Houston—every week. Moreover, millions of female pigs endured cycles of confined pregnancy, including a herd of more than 900,000 at the nation’s largest “farm.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slider-center"></div> <div class="mobile-slider-wrap"> <div class="mobile-slider glide mobile-slider-jLQKZFfVKV"> <div class="glide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <div class="glide__slides"> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="~50 million to ~23 million years ago" aria-hidden="false" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Andrewsarchus, an extinct creature of the Eocene period, was possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, known only from a single fossil skull found in Mongolia. 3D Rendering." tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050812/shutterstock_1629904135_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050812/shutterstock_1629904135_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050812/shutterstock_1629904135_crop-747x760.jpg"> <img alt="Andrewsarchus, an extinct creature of the Eocene period, was possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, known only from a single fossil skull found in Mongolia. 3D Rendering." title="Andrewsarchus, an extinct creature of the Eocene period, was possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, known only from a single fossil skull found in Mongolia. 3D Rendering." loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050812/shutterstock_1629904135_crop-scaled-e1594394101986.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050812/shutterstock_1629904135_crop-scaled-e1594394101986.jpg" alt="Andrewsarchus, an extinct creature of the Eocene period, was possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, known only from a single fossil skull found in Mongolia. 3D Rendering." title="Andrewsarchus, an extinct creature of the Eocene period, was possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, known only from a single fossil skull found in Mongolia. 3D Rendering." loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Image: Daniel Eskridge/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">~50 million to ~23 million years ago</p> <p class="header">Even-Toed Ungulates Arrive on the Scene</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulates, are an order of hoofed mammals that bear weight on two toes—fossil evidence places their common ancestry in the early Eocene epoch, about 50 million years ago. Pigs and boars, hippos, llamas, sheep, goats, and camels all fall into the category. Whales and dolphins also evolved from two-toed ungulates. Fossil evidence of “Suidae” family members resembling pigs and boars dates to about 23 million years ago.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="~2 million years ago to ~20,000 BCE" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Wild boar skull. Photo: Art Pictures/Shutterstock" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050038/shutterstock_1311804341-1-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050038/shutterstock_1311804341-1-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050038/shutterstock_1311804341-1-760x747.jpg"> <img alt="Wild boar skull. Photo: Art Pictures/Shutterstock" title="Wild boar skull. Photo: Art Pictures/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050038/shutterstock_1311804341-1-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050038/shutterstock_1311804341-1-scaled.jpg" alt="Wild boar skull. Photo: Art Pictures/Shutterstock" title="Wild boar skull. Photo: Art Pictures/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Art Pictures/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">~2 million years ago to ~20,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Adaptability Makes for Good Genes</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Roughly 2 million years ago, while other Suidae family members were disappearing, members of the genus Sus, the modern pig’s genus, were scattered across the northern hemisphere. By 20,000 years ago “Sus scrofa”—the species of today’s wild boar and the closest genetic ancestor to domestic pigs—had spread across the world from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, adapting to survive on Himalayan hillsides and in the grasslands of North Africa.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="~10,000 BCE" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="A close up shot of funerary figurine made of earthenware. Part of the exhibition of Chinese art past and present. Photo: Michiru Maeda/Shutterstock" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050036/shutterstock_1466235548-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050036/shutterstock_1466235548-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050036/shutterstock_1466235548-760x747.jpg"> <img alt="A close up shot of funerary figurine made of earthenware. Part of the exhibition of Chinese art past and present. Photo: Michiru Maeda/Shutterstock" title="A close up shot of funerary figurine made of earthenware. Part of the exhibition of Chinese art past and present. Photo: Michiru Maeda/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050036/shutterstock_1466235548-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050036/shutterstock_1466235548-scaled.jpg" alt="A close up shot of funerary figurine made of earthenware. Part of the exhibition of Chinese art past and present. Photo: Michiru Maeda/Shutterstock" title="A close up shot of funerary figurine made of earthenware. Part of the exhibition of Chinese art past and present. Photo: Michiru Maeda/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Michiru Maeda/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">~10,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Continuous, Widespread Domestication</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>While many theories exist about how wild pigs were domesticated—because they approached human settlements, for example, or were hunted ever more systematically—zooarchaeologists tend to agree that domestication occurred at both ends of Asia (and perhaps elsewhere), starting about 10,000 years ago. Since then, continuous mixing of wild boar populations with kept pigs has created a genetic melange as varied as that of any domesticated animal.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="~2,000 BCE" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Lord Varaha - Avatar Vishnu. Photo: d odin/Shutterstock" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050035/shutterstock_1369192346-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050035/shutterstock_1369192346-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050035/shutterstock_1369192346-760x747.jpg"> <img alt="Lord Varaha - Avatar Vishnu. Photo: d odin/Shutterstock" title="Lord Varaha - Avatar Vishnu. Photo: d odin/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050035/shutterstock_1369192346-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050035/shutterstock_1369192346-scaled.jpg" alt="Lord Varaha - Avatar Vishnu. Photo: d odin/Shutterstock" title="Lord Varaha - Avatar Vishnu. Photo: d odin/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: d odin/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">~2,000 BCE</p> <p class="header">Ancient Avatars, Origin Tales, & Taboos</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>The shunning of pig’s meat as taboo may stem from concurrently held views of the animal as both dangerous and divine. In the Rigveda, a Hindu scripture compiled 3,000 years ago, a boar is said to have raised the earth from the primordial waters—an incarnation of the god Prajapati. In the ancient Greek city of Hieropolis, having been figuratively linked to Egyptian Osiris and Greek Adonis, pigs were not to be touched, sacrificed, or eaten.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="~1450 CE" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Harvest of black truffles in Lalbenque, France." tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050810/shutterstock_1198569622_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050810/shutterstock_1198569622_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050810/shutterstock_1198569622_crop-747x760.jpg"> <img alt="Harvest of black truffles in Lalbenque, France." title="Harvest of black truffles in Lalbenque, France." loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050810/shutterstock_1198569622_crop-e1594394136667.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050810/shutterstock_1198569622_crop-e1594394136667.jpg" alt="Harvest of black truffles in Lalbenque, France." title="Harvest of black truffles in Lalbenque, France." loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Philippe 1 bo/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">~1450 CE</p> <p class="header">The Gastronomer’s Strong-Sniffing Ally</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>With a keen sense of smell and a natural inclination to root in the earth, pigs living amongst humans have been used to ferret out delicate underground truffles since the era of the Roman Empire, though the earliest substantive documentation of the practice came out of the Italian Renaissance. Historically, female pigs have been deployed more often, as truffles emit a scent similar to that of male pigs’ mating pheromones.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="1945" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="George Orwell" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050830/George-orwell-BBC-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050830/George-orwell-BBC-760x747.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050830/George-orwell-BBC-760x747.jpg"> <img alt="George Orwell" title="George Orwell" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050830/George-orwell-BBC.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050830/George-orwell-BBC.jpg" alt="George Orwell" title="George Orwell" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: BBC / Public domain</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">1945</p> <p class="header">Old Major</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, a boar named Old Major reveals his dream of a better future with his fellow barnyard animals, sharing his realization that humans only extract from the farm while animals work and suffer. His dream foments a farmed-animal revolution that seeks equality through “animalism.” Orwell’s extended metaphor gives parallel voice to domestic pigs and human laborers in an unprecedented way.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="1953" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Witney, Oxfordshire, UK 06 16 2020 A girl reading the classic book by E B White, Charlotte's Web" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050808/shutterstock_1757938070_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050808/shutterstock_1757938070_crop-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050808/shutterstock_1757938070_crop-747x760.jpg"> <img alt="Witney, Oxfordshire, UK 06 16 2020 A girl reading the classic book by E B White, Charlotte's Web" title="Witney, Oxfordshire, UK 06 16 2020 A girl reading the classic book by E B White, Charlotte's Web" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050808/shutterstock_1757938070_crop-scaled-e1594394151187.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050808/shutterstock_1757938070_crop-scaled-e1594394151187.jpg" alt="Witney, Oxfordshire, UK 06 16 2020 A girl reading the classic book by E B White, Charlotte's Web" title="Witney, Oxfordshire, UK 06 16 2020 A girl reading the classic book by E B White, Charlotte's Web" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Ben Molyneux/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">1953</p> <p class="header">Radiant, Terrific, Humble—That’ll Do, Pig</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In 1953, E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web was published—the story of Wilbur the pig, his friend Charlotte the spider, and how her web-spun praise saves him from slaughter. The book was the world’s best-selling children’s paperback for decades. Thirty years later, Dick King-Smith’s Babe, the Gallant Pig, told of a young pig’s efforts to be seen as more than food. Both stories prompted millions of people to consider otherwise overlooked animal perspectives.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="1968" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Pig farm Italy" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050858/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_2015-0732-2-1-760x746.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050858/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_2015-0732-2-1-760x746.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050858/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_2015-0732-2-1-760x746.jpg"> <img alt="Pig farm Italy" title="Pig farm Italy" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050858/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_2015-0732-2-1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050858/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_2015-0732-2-1.jpg" alt="Pig farm Italy" title="Pig farm Italy" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">1968</p> <p class="header">Intensive Confinement, Production, Stress</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>A photo from 1968 may be the oldest visual evidence of pigs living in gestation crates—indoor cages in which most farmed, pregnant sows in the US and worldwide endure their four-month pregnancies, without room to rest comfortably or turn around. While a few states have banned the practice, farm owners have built ever larger, more cramped pig-production facilities. Also in 1968, agricultural researchers coined the term “Porcine Stress Syndrome.”</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="1976" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Miss Piggy at the "Muppets Most Wanted" - Los Angeles Premiere at the El Capitan Theater on March 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050807/shutterstock_239234287-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050807/shutterstock_239234287-747x760.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050807/shutterstock_239234287-747x760.jpg"> <img alt="Miss Piggy at the "Muppets Most Wanted" - Los Angeles Premiere at the El Capitan Theater on March 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA" title="Miss Piggy at the "Muppets Most Wanted" - Los Angeles Premiere at the El Capitan Theater on March 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050807/shutterstock_239234287-e1594394164848.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050807/shutterstock_239234287-e1594394164848.jpg" alt="Miss Piggy at the "Muppets Most Wanted" - Los Angeles Premiere at the El Capitan Theater on March 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA" title="Miss Piggy at the "Muppets Most Wanted" - Los Angeles Premiere at the El Capitan Theater on March 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Kathy Hutchins/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">1976</p> <p class="header">Miss Piggy’s Muppet Show Feminism</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>The preeminent TV pig of the era, Miss Piggy brandished charm and karate chops as one of most thoroughly developed Muppets. She brought an anti-pork feminism to a 1978 duet of “I’m a Woman” with Raquel Welch. On “Pigs in Space,” the show’s long-running Star Trek spoof, she battled the sexism and incompetence of her boss, Captain Link Hogthrob. Gloria Steinem presented Piggy with a Sackler Center Award in 2015, given to honor extraordinary women.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="2005 " aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Woman protesting with "no more Monsanto" sign. Photo: st.djura/Shutterstock" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050033/shutterstock_1252719991-760x624.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050033/shutterstock_1252719991-760x624.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050033/shutterstock_1252719991-760x624.jpg"> <img alt="Woman protesting with "no more Monsanto" sign. Photo: st.djura/Shutterstock" title="Woman protesting with "no more Monsanto" sign. Photo: st.djura/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050033/shutterstock_1252719991.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050033/shutterstock_1252719991.jpg" alt="Woman protesting with "no more Monsanto" sign. Photo: st.djura/Shutterstock" title="Woman protesting with "no more Monsanto" sign. Photo: st.djura/Shutterstock" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: st.djura/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">2005 </p> <p class="header">Patenting Pig-Breeding Methods … and Pigs</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>Over recent decades, the public has grown more aware of, and often chafed against, attempts by chemical and pharmaceutical companies’ to control the food supply by engineering and marketing crop seeds as intellectual property. One milestone that saw little public scrutiny was Monsanto’s 2005 attempt to patent not only pig-breeding methods, but the pigs that resulted from those methods as well as their genetic information.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="2016" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="North Carolina floods" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050857/NCFloods_JMcArthur2018-7738-760x746.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050857/NCFloods_JMcArthur2018-7738-760x746.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050857/NCFloods_JMcArthur2018-7738-760x746.jpg"> <img alt="North Carolina floods" title="North Carolina floods" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050857/NCFloods_JMcArthur2018-7738.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050857/NCFloods_JMcArthur2018-7738.jpg" alt="North Carolina floods" title="North Carolina floods" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">2016</p> <p class="header">Hurricane Hits Pig-Manure Lagoons</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>As pig farming has industrialized, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (“CAFOs”)—also called “factory farms”—now raise and slaughter over 100 million pigs annually. One consequence is the production of bewildering amounts of waste, as each pig will produce more than its weight in feces each year. Much of this waste is pumped into open-air storage lagoons, at least 14 of which were submerged and dispersed by rains from 2016’s Hurricane Matthew.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__slide" data-slide-date="2019" aria-hidden="true" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Pigs crowded on farm" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051053/shutterstock_1673809186.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051053/shutterstock_1673809186.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051053/shutterstock_1673809186.jpg"> <img alt="Pigs crowded on farm" title="Pigs crowded on farm" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051053/shutterstock_1673809186.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051053/shutterstock_1673809186.jpg" alt="Pigs crowded on farm" title="Pigs crowded on farm" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: chalermphon_tiam/shutterstock.com</p> </div> <div class="content-container"> <p class="date">2019</p> <p class="header">A Vast Magnitude of Death for Pork</p> <div class="body wysiwyg-text-container"><p>In 2019 in the U.S., commercial “farmers” slaughtered nearly 130 million pigs—a number greater than the combined human populations of California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. That’s an average of more than 2 million—the population of Houston—every week. Moreover, millions of female pigs endured cycles of confined pregnancy, including a herd of more than 900,000 at the nation’s largest “farm.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fs-timeline__slider-controls"> <button class="timeline-control-btn timeline-prev" data-control-direction="<" disabled="disabled" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" >Previous</button> <button class="timeline-control-btn timeline-next" data-control-direction=">" aria-hidden="false" tabindex="0" aria-label="Next Button - Go to ~2 million years ago to ~20,000 BCE timeline slide" >Next</button> </div> </div> </section> <section id="content_block_2" class="fs-module fs-content-blocks --no-eyebrow --right "> <div class="fs-container fs-content-blocks-content"> <div class="fs-content-blocks__header"> <h2 class="headline">The Someone Project: Pigs</h2> </div> <div class="fs-content-blocks__wrapper"> <div class="image --right-mobile "> <picture class="" data-title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1060.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1280x848.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-760x503.jpg"> <img alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="body-container "> <div class="body-copy wysiwyg-text-container "> <p><em>The Someone Project</em> is a Farm Sanctuary-sponsored research-based initiative documenting farm animal sentience through science. Read our white paper on pigs titled <em>Thinking Pigs: Cognition, Emotion and Personality in the Domestic Pig</em>.</p> </div> <a class="cta-button" href="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/12/14130857/pig-white-paperV4.pdf" target=""> Download </a> </div> <div class="image --right "> <picture class="" data-title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1060.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1280x848.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-760x503.jpg"> <img alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/01/27051901/2014_09-10_FSNY_Gus_and_Roxy_pigs_DSC_4364_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593625056960.jpg" alt="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig laying in the water at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript></noscript> </picture> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="fact_cards_1" class="fs-module fs-fact-cards"> <div class="fs-container"> <div class="fs-fact-cards__heading"> <h3 class="fs-fact-cards__headline">Pig Facts</h3> <div class="fs-fact-cards__description wysiwyg-text-container"> </div> <div class="fs-fact-cards__heading-line"></div> </div> <div class="fs-fact-cards__slider-container"> <div class="fs-fact-cards__cards glide"> <div class="gide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <ul class="fs-fact-cards__slides"> <li data-fact-item=0 class="glide__slide fs-fact-cards__card-entry card-1 --image-card " >  <picture class="" data-title="Rory pig at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054730/2019_01-11_FSNY_Rory_pig_DSC_9826_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1590862664631-760x507.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054730/2019_01-11_FSNY_Rory_pig_DSC_9826_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1590862664631-760x507.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054730/2019_01-11_FSNY_Rory_pig_DSC_9826_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1590862664631-760x507.jpg"> <img alt="Rory pig at Farm Sanctuary" title="Rory pig at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054730/2019_01-11_FSNY_Rory_pig_DSC_9826_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1594394195253.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054730/2019_01-11_FSNY_Rory_pig_DSC_9826_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1594394195253.jpg" alt="Rory pig at Farm Sanctuary" title="Rory pig at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture>  </li> <li data-fact-item=1 class="glide__slide fs-fact-cards__card-entry card-2 --with-header --with-icon" >  <div class="fs-fact-cards__card-inner"> <div class="icon-container" aria-hidden="true"> <picture class="" data-title="icon-heart-gray" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054610/icon-rescue-gray.svg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054610/icon-rescue-gray.svg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054610/icon-rescue-gray.svg"> <img alt="icon-heart-gray" title="icon-heart-gray" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054610/icon-rescue-gray.svg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054610/icon-rescue-gray.svg" alt="icon-heart-gray" title="icon-heart-gray" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="fact-card-line --with-header "></div> <h3 class="fs-fact-cards__header">Pigs</h3> <p class="fs-fact-cards__card-body"> can distinguish between other pigs simply through touch. </p> </div> </li> <li data-fact-item=2 class="glide__slide fs-fact-cards__card-entry card-3 " >  <div class="fs-fact-cards__card-inner"> <div class="icon-container" aria-hidden="true"> </div> <div class="fact-card-line "></div> <p class="fs-fact-cards__card-body"> Pigs are able to understand the perspectives of other pigs and anticipate their behaviors. </p> </div> </li> <li data-fact-item=3 class="glide__slide fs-fact-cards__card-entry card-4 " >  <div class="fs-fact-cards__card-inner"> <div class="icon-container" aria-hidden="true"> </div> <div class="fact-card-line "></div> <p class="fs-fact-cards__card-body"> Play behavior in pigs includes playing with toys, wrestling, and excitedly leaping. </p> </div> </li> <li data-fact-item=4 class="glide__slide fs-fact-cards__card-entry card-5 --with-icon" >  <div class="fs-fact-cards__card-inner"> <div class="icon-container" aria-hidden="true"> <picture class="" data-title="icon-pig-ochre" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054609/icon-pig-ochre.svg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054609/icon-pig-ochre.svg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054609/icon-pig-ochre.svg"> <img alt="icon-pig-ochre" title="icon-pig-ochre" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054609/icon-pig-ochre.svg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054609/icon-pig-ochre.svg" alt="icon-pig-ochre" title="icon-pig-ochre" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="fact-card-line "></div> <p class="fs-fact-cards__card-body"> In the wild, pigs are social animals living in small groups who travel, forage, and even nest together. </p> <div class="fact-card-bottom-line"></div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="fs-fact-cards__navigation"> <div class="glide__arrows --mobile" data-glide-el="controls"> <button aria-label="previous" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--left prev" data-glide-dir="<"> Previous </button> <button aria-label="next" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--right next" data-glide-dir=">"> Next </button> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="landing_pull_quote_1" class="fs-module fs-landing-pull-quote"> <div class="fs-container fs-landing-pull-quote-content fs-no-max-width --with-image --with-gradient" > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="GIF of pigs at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054700/pig_GIF_1.gif"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054700/pig_GIF_1.gif"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054700/pig_GIF_1.gif"> <img alt="GIF of pigs at Farm Sanctuary" title="GIF of pigs at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054700/pig_GIF_1.gif" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054700/pig_GIF_1.gif" alt="GIF of pigs at Farm Sanctuary" title="GIF of pigs at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="content-container "> <div class="quote-text wysiwyg-text-container ">“[Pigs] have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly three-year-olds.”</div> <div class="body-text wysiwyg-text-container">- Professor Donald Broom, Oxford University</div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="multi_column_block_1" class="fs-module fs-multi-column-block multi_column_block"> <div class="fs-container"> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__horizontal-line"></div> <h2 class="fs-multi-column-block__header">The Truth Behind Bacon</h3> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__description wysiwyg-text-container"><p>The life of a pig in the U.S. pork industry is one of confinement, stress, and suffering.</p> </div> <ul class="fs-multi-column-block__entries"> <li class="fs-multi-column-block__one-entry "> <div class="image"> <picture class="" data-title="United States icon" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051159/fs-icons-US-300x300.png"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051159/fs-icons-US-300x300.png"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051159/fs-icons-US-300x300.png"> <img alt="United States icon" title="United States icon" loading="lazy" role="img" aria-hidden="true" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051159/fs-icons-US.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051159/fs-icons-US.png" alt="United States icon" title="United States icon" loading="lazy" role="img" aria-hidden="true" /></noscript> </picture> </div> <h3 class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-title">United States</h3> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-description wysiwyg-text-container "><p><strong>125.4 million</strong> pigs were slaughtered in the United States in 2022.</p> </div> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-links"> </div> </li> <li class="fs-multi-column-block__one-entry "> <div class="image"> <picture class="" data-title="Globe Icon" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051200/fs-icons-Globe-300x300.png"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051200/fs-icons-Globe-300x300.png"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051200/fs-icons-Globe-300x300.png"> <img alt="Globe Icon" title="Globe Icon" loading="lazy" role="img" aria-hidden="true" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051200/fs-icons-Globe.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/06/27051200/fs-icons-Globe.png" alt="Globe Icon" title="Globe Icon" loading="lazy" role="img" aria-hidden="true" /></noscript> </picture> </div> <h3 class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-title">Global</h3> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-description wysiwyg-text-container "><p><strong>1.49 billion</strong> pigs were slaughtered worldwide in 2022.</p> </div> <div class="fs-multi-column-block__entry-links"> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section id="horizontal_section_explainer_1" class="fs-module fs-horizontal-explainer landscape image--left --landscape" data-hash="359628905"> <div class="fs-container fs-no-max-width fs-horizontal-explainer-content"> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__wrapper landscape image--left" data-variation="left" data-orientation="landscape"> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__header "> <p class="label">factory farming</p> <h3 class="header">Pigs Used for Meat</h3> </div> </div> <div class="slide-wrapper landscape image--left" role="group"> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__container --image --tablet image--left"> <div id="image-359628905" class="glide"> <div class="glide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <div class="glide__slides"> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="0" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="1" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="2" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1280x963.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-760x572.jpg"> <img alt="A sow lies separated from her piglets" title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg" alt="A sow lies separated from her piglets" title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="3" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals for The Guardian</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="4" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="5" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="6" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="7" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1280x852.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-760x506.jpg"> <img alt="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg" alt="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="8" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-image glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="9" role="group"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1280x853.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-760x507.jpg"> <img alt="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg" alt="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals for The Guardian</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__container --text --tablet image--left"> <div id="tablet-text-359628905" class="glide fs-horizontal-explainer__container__glide--text"> <div class="glide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <div class="glide__slides"> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="0" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Slaughter at an Enormous Scale</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p>In an average week more than 2 million pigs are slaughtered in the U.S., almost exclusively to be processed and eaten by people as “pork” products—primarily bacon, ham, and sausage. In 2017, about 235 million pigs were sold in the U.S., and 95% of those were raised on “farms” with 5,000 or more individual pigs. The nation’s largest “farm” keeps over 900,000 female sows at any given time designated for breeding until they are “spent” and slaughtered.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="1" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Waste at Enormous Cost</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p>Research shows that a domestic pig produces about 13 pounds of excrement daily. At roughly 2 tons per year per pig, the nation’s pig farms produce about 270 million tons nationwide—the equivalent weight of 2.5 Golden Gate Bridges or the displacement of 5,100 Titanics. North Carolina alone is home to over 9 million pigs, mostly raised in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations holding thousands of animals). T<span style="font-weight: 400;">he CAFOs’ unconscionable “disposal” of so much pig excrement has toxic effects on workers, local residents, their water supply, and the surrounding environment.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="2" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>The Desperate Cycle of a Breeding Sow</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The life of a breeding sow in the U.S. pork industry is one of extreme confinement, stress, and suffering. More than 5.1 million female pigs were used for breeding in the U.S. in 2017. These naturally curious and intelligent animals are first impregnated at 7 months of age and live out their lives in a cycle of pregnancy, birth, and nursing until they are eventually sent to slaughter.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="3" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Artificial Insemination</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To keep sows pregnant, U.S. farmers increasingly depend on artificial insemination. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to one report, AI rose from about 1 in 10 pregnancies in 1991 to about 7 in 10 by 2000. Industrial farmers like artificial insemination’s ability to improve genetic selection and to reduce the cost of feeding and housing male boars. Prior to being inseminated, females are sometimes given drugs to stimulate ovulation—one such drug contains a hormone derived from the urine of pregnant horses, PMSG, and an analog of another originally derived from the urine of pregnant human women, hCG.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="4" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Imprisoned in Pregnancy</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During pregnancy,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> most breeding sows</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the past century</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have spent nearly all of their time confined to “gestation crates,” confinement stalls made of metal bars and only slightly larger than the pigs themselves. Such restraint makes it impossible for sows to lie down comfortably or even turn around during pregnancy. In larger operations, crates full of pregnant sows are typically lined up row after row in vast warehousing barns. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite recent claims from some larger producers that they no longer intend to use gestation crates in the U.S., investigations have found that the method remains in widespread use.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="5" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Anxiously Lying Above Their Waste</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p>Gestation crates are usually constructed with floors made of spaced slats to allow the pigs’ manure to fall through—so pregnant sows live directly above their own decomposing waste, exposed to high levels of ammonia. Living on the hard slatted flooring causes foot injuries, damage to joints, and even lameness. Enduring their 4-month pregnancies in a space slightly smaller than a phone-booth door, they suffer from intense boredom and frustration. Abnormal, neurotic behaviors—repeatedly biting at the bars of the crate or chewing with an empty mouth—often result, causing sores, tooth and mouth injuries, and further suffering.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="6" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Nursing Piglets in Industrial Stalls</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shortly before their piglets are born, pregnant sows are moved to “farrowing crates” where the piglets will be nursed. Meant to separate the mother from the piglets to avoid crushing, farrowing crates are only slightly larger than gestation crates, adding a restrictive attachment that contains the piglets adjacent to their nursing mother. Deprived of the ability to nuzzle her piglets or even turn around to see, she has enough room only to stand and lie down. No large pork producers have suggested that they intend to discontinue the use of farrowing crates.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="7" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Castrated and Tail-Docked Without Relief</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before they are three weeks old, piglets are removed from their mothers to endure a series of mutilations. Because tail-biting is a common behavior in captive environments and can lead to injury and infection, most pigs have a portion of their tails sheared off. Males are commonly castrated with a sharp knife, to reduce aggression and because the taste of meat from sexually mature males is considered less desirable. Pain relief is rarely provided for either operation.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="8" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Endless Cycle</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After being separated from their mothers, piglets spend the next 6 months of their lives confined to pens until they reach “market weight.” They are then trucked to slaughter. Shortly after their piglets are weaned, females are commonly forced back into the restrictive gestation crates and re-impregnated. The cycle continues, with an average sow producing a couple of litters per year until she is considered spent and sent to slaughter herself. For farmers, a sow’s age matters less than the number of times she has given birth. Usually after 7 or 8 litters, fertility declines and her value is no longer sufficient.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-tablet glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="9" role="group"> <h4 class="title "> <span>Crippled, Broken, and Slaughtered</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container no-cta"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least half a million pigs arrive at slaughterhouses every year unable to walk or stand. Whether injured in transit or lame from the stresses of excessive confinement, these “downed” animals will end up lying on trailer bottoms or dragging themselves across waste-riddled feedlots, increasing the likelihood of further injury and pathogen infection. Still, slaughterhouse workers routinely use force to guide them to their deaths. Though the USDA has banned the slaughter of downed cows and calves for human consumption, turning downed pigs into food remains both legal and common.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__navigation"> <div class="glide__arrows" data-glide-el="controls"> <button aria-label="Go to previous Explainer Slide" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--left prev" data-glide-dir="<"> Previous </button> <button aria-label="Go to next Explainer Slide" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--right next" data-glide-dir=">"> Next </button> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glide__bullets left " data-glide-el="controls[nav]"> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 1 of 10" data-glide-dir="=0"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 2 of 10" data-glide-dir="=1"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 3 of 10" data-glide-dir="=2"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 4 of 10" data-glide-dir="=3"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 5 of 10" data-glide-dir="=4"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 6 of 10" data-glide-dir="=5"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 7 of 10" data-glide-dir="=6"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 8 of 10" data-glide-dir="=7"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 9 of 10" data-glide-dir="=8"></button> <button class="glide__bullet" aria-label="Go to slide 10 of 10" data-glide-dir="=9"></button> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__container --text --image --mobile"> <div id="mobile-359628905" class="glide fs-horizontal-explainer__container__glide--text"> <div class="glide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <div class="glide__slides"> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="0" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" tabindex="0" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050258/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-1-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" title="Pigs crammed into pens at a sale yard. Australia, 2017" tabindex="0" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Slaughter at an Enormous Scale</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p>In an average week more than 2 million pigs are slaughtered in the U.S., almost exclusively to be processed and eaten by people as “pork” products—primarily bacon, ham, and sausage. In 2017, about 235 million pigs were sold in the U.S., and 95% of those were raised on “farms” with 5,000 or more individual pigs. The nation’s largest “farm” keeps over 900,000 female sows at any given time designated for breeding until they are “spent” and slaughtered.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="1" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050300/WeAnimalsPigsCropped2-2-of-2-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" title="Aerial view of CAFO barns and manure lagoons in North Carolina" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Waste at Enormous Cost</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p>Research shows that a domestic pig produces about 13 pounds of excrement daily. At roughly 2 tons per year per pig, the nation’s pig farms produce about 270 million tons nationwide—the equivalent weight of 2.5 Golden Gate Bridges or the displacement of 5,100 Titanics. North Carolina alone is home to over 9 million pigs, mostly raised in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations holding thousands of animals). T<span style="font-weight: 400;">he CAFOs’ unconscionable “disposal” of so much pig excrement has toxic effects on workers, local residents, their water supply, and the surrounding environment.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="2" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1280x963.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-760x572.jpg"> <img alt="A sow lies separated from her piglets" title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050304/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-1-of-6-1600x1204.jpg" alt="A sow lies separated from her piglets" title="A sow lies separated from her piglets" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>The Desperate Cycle of a Breeding Sow</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The life of a breeding sow in the U.S. pork industry is one of extreme confinement, stress, and suffering. More than 5.1 million female pigs were used for breeding in the U.S. in 2017. These naturally curious and intelligent animals are first impregnated at 7 months of age and live out their lives in a cycle of pregnancy, birth, and nursing until they are eventually sent to slaughter.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="3" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050311/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-6-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" title="Tubes used for artificially inseminating sows at a family run organic pig farm" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals for The Guardian</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Artificial Insemination</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To keep sows pregnant, U.S. farmers increasingly depend on artificial insemination. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to one report, AI rose from about 1 in 10 pregnancies in 1991 to about 7 in 10 by 2000. Industrial farmers like artificial insemination’s ability to improve genetic selection and to reduce the cost of feeding and housing male boars. Prior to being inseminated, females are sometimes given drugs to stimulate ovulation—one such drug contains a hormone derived from the urine of pregnant horses, PMSG, and an analog of another originally derived from the urine of pregnant human women, hCG.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="4" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050308/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-5-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" title="Line of pigs, confined and isolated by metal bars" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Imprisoned in Pregnancy</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During pregnancy,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> most breeding sows</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the past century</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have spent nearly all of their time confined to “gestation crates,” confinement stalls made of metal bars and only slightly larger than the pigs themselves. Such restraint makes it impossible for sows to lie down comfortably or even turn around during pregnancy. In larger operations, crates full of pregnant sows are typically lined up row after row in vast warehousing barns. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite recent claims from some larger producers that they no longer intend to use gestation crates in the U.S., investigations have found that the method remains in widespread use.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="5" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050309/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-3-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" title="A sow is forced to lay with hindquarters pressed into the bars of her gestation crate and her own feces" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Anxiously Lying Above Their Waste</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p>Gestation crates are usually constructed with floors made of spaced slats to allow the pigs’ manure to fall through—so pregnant sows live directly above their own decomposing waste, exposed to high levels of ammonia. Living on the hard slatted flooring causes foot injuries, damage to joints, and even lameness. Enduring their 4-month pregnancies in a space slightly smaller than a phone-booth door, they suffer from intense boredom and frustration. Abnormal, neurotic behaviors—repeatedly biting at the bars of the crate or chewing with an empty mouth—often result, causing sores, tooth and mouth injuries, and further suffering.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="6" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050306/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-4-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" title="A sow and her litter, nursing inside a gestation crate in an Italian factory farm" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Nursing Piglets in Industrial Stalls</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shortly before their piglets are born, pregnant sows are moved to “farrowing crates” where the piglets will be nursed. Meant to separate the mother from the piglets to avoid crushing, farrowing crates are only slightly larger than gestation crates, adding a restrictive attachment that contains the piglets adjacent to their nursing mother. Deprived of the ability to nuzzle her piglets or even turn around to see, she has enough room only to stand and lie down. No large pork producers have suggested that they intend to discontinue the use of farrowing crates.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="7" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1280x852.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-760x506.jpg"> <img alt="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27100906/PigFarm_Italy_JMcArthur_20150914-8983-1600x1065.jpg" alt="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." title="A sow and piglet in a sow stall." tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Essere Animali</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Castrated and Tail-Docked Without Relief</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before they are three weeks old, piglets are removed from their mothers to endure a series of mutilations. Because tail-biting is a common behavior in captive environments and can lead to injury and infection, most pigs have a portion of their tails sheared off. Males are commonly castrated with a sharp knife, to reduce aggression and because the taste of meat from sexually mature males is considered less desirable. Pain relief is rarely provided for either operation.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="8" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1280x960.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-760x570.jpg"> <img alt="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050302/WeAnimalsPigsCropped-2-of-6-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" title="Young pigs crowd pens in Swedish factory farms" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Endless Cycle</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After being separated from their mothers, piglets spend the next 6 months of their lives confined to pens until they reach “market weight.” They are then trucked to slaughter. Shortly after their piglets are weaned, females are commonly forced back into the restrictive gestation crates and re-impregnated. The cycle continues, with an average sow producing a couple of litters per year until she is considered spent and sent to slaughter herself. For farmers, a sow’s age matters less than the number of times she has given birth. Usually after 7 or 8 litters, fertility declines and her value is no longer sufficient.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="item-text-mobile glide__slide" data-key-issue-item="9" role="group"> <div class="image --landscape --with-caption"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1280x853.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-760x507.jpg"> <img alt="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050845/PigSlaughterhouse_Thailand_JMcArthur_20190201-2793-1600x1067.jpg" alt="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" title="Pigs in a holding area at a slaughterhouse" tabindex="-1" loading="lazy" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="credits-caption"><p>Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals for The Guardian</p> </div> <h4 class="title "> <span>Crippled, Broken, and Slaughtered</span> </h4> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least half a million pigs arrive at slaughterhouses every year unable to walk or stand. Whether injured in transit or lame from the stresses of excessive confinement, these “downed” animals will end up lying on trailer bottoms or dragging themselves across waste-riddled feedlots, increasing the likelihood of further injury and pathogen infection. Still, slaughterhouse workers routinely use force to guide them to their deaths. Though the USDA has banned the slaughter of downed cows and calves for human consumption, turning downed pigs into food remains both legal and common.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fs-horizontal-explainer__navigation"> <div class="glide__arrows" data-glide-el="controls"> <button aria-label="Go to previous Explainer Slide" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--left prev" data-glide-dir="<"> Previous </button> <button aria-label="Go to next Explainer Slide" class="glide__arrow glide__arrow--right next" data-glide-dir=">"> Next </button> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="landing_pull_quote_2" class="fs-module fs-landing-pull-quote"> <div class="fs-container fs-landing-pull-quote-content fs-no-max-width --with-image " > <div class="image-container"> <picture class="" data-title="Pig getting his nose rubbed at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054659/Pig_GIF_2.gif"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054659/Pig_GIF_2.gif"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054659/Pig_GIF_2.gif"> <img alt="Pig getting his nose rubbed at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig getting his nose rubbed at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054659/Pig_GIF_2.gif" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054659/Pig_GIF_2.gif" alt="Pig getting his nose rubbed at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig getting his nose rubbed at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="content-container "> <div class="quote-text wysiwyg-text-container ">“Our results suggest that pigs can develop quite sophisticated social competitive behavior, similar to that seen in some primate species.”</div> <div class="body-text wysiwyg-text-container">- Dr. Mike Mendl, Bristol University</div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="content_block_3" class="fs-module fs-content-blocks --no-eyebrow --default --video --no-text --no-cta "> <div class="fs-container fs-content-blocks-content"> <div class="fs-content-blocks__header"> <h2 class="headline">Featured Pig Rescues</h2> </div> <div class="fs-content-blocks__wrapper"> <div class="vid-cont"> <div class="video"> <picture data-thumbnail-ytid="7gCnmqm2wPk" class="vid-thumbnail"> <img alt="Two Rescued Pigs Share a Lifetime Bond" loading="lazy" data-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7gCnmqm2wPk/maxresdefault.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7gCnmqm2wPk/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="Two Rescued Pigs Share a Lifetime Bond" loading="lazy"></noscript> </picture> <div class="youtube-video" id="7gCnmqm2wPk" data-title="YouTube video player - Two Rescued Pigs Share a Lifetime Bond" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7gCnmqm2wPk?modestbranding=1&origin=https://www.farmsanctuary.org&playsinline=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1"> </div> </div> <div class="fs-audio-description__transcript-container content-block-transcript has-download"> <div class="icons-container"> <div class="grp-1"> <button tabindex="0" aria-label="audio description toggle" aria-expanded="false" class="icon-audio-description"> <svg class="icon " role="img" title="" aria-hidden="true" aria-label=""> <use xlink:href=https://www.farmsanctuary.org/content/themes/farm-sanctuary/dist/images/sprite.svg#sprite-audio-description></use> </svg> </button> </div> <div class="grp-2"> <button class="fs-audio-description__download-button download-button-content-block tablet-content-block tablet" aria-label="Download Transcript, Dropdown"> <svg class="icon " role="img" title="" aria-hidden="true" aria-label=""> <use xlink:href=https://www.farmsanctuary.org/content/themes/farm-sanctuary/dist/images/sprite.svg#sprite-download-transcript-icon></use> </svg> Download Transcript </button> <div class="fs-audio-description__download-links tablet tablet-content-block"> <a class="download-link" role="button" href="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050837/4793786-Two_Rescued_Pigs_Share_a_Lifetime_Bond-standard-description.mp3" download>Download Audio</a> <button class="download-link download-link--text" type="button" value="[MUSIC PLAYING] Sebastian was like the head of the pack, he is the bad boy. And Jane was like, oh, I like you. Sebastian is a Hampshire breed, which is typically used for meat. And usually slaughtered at the age of six months old. But Sebastian here escaped the farm, and he was actually found under a Farm Sanctuary employee's porch. She brought him here to the farm. A few months later, Jane was found by a wildlife rehab.<br /> <br /> <br /> She survived the flood, and was found cold, and purple, and shivering on a swollen creek embankment. She came to Farm Sanctuary, and then she met Sebastian. It was love at first sight. Pig bond with each other, and they become friends very quickly. And oftentimes when they're separated, they will become depressed. And they'll feel lonely without their partner.<br /> <br /> <br /> Luckily for these two, they have never been separated since they both came to Farm Sanctuary. When they're not sleeping, they're out like room in a barn. They like to eat together, sometimes play about the food. But you know, they always make up at the end of the day. And that's how their love story began.<br /> <br /> <br /> [MUSIC PLAYING]<br /> <br /> <br /> You got this.<br /> <br /> <br /> [LAUGHING]">Download Text</button> </div> <a class="download-link download-link--desktop first download-link--audio" role="button" href="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050837/4793786-Two_Rescued_Pigs_Share_a_Lifetime_Bond-standard-description.mp3" download>Download Audio</a> <button class="download-link download-link--text download-link--desktop" type="button" value="[MUSIC PLAYING] Sebastian was like the head of the pack, he is the bad boy. And Jane was like, oh, I like you. Sebastian is a Hampshire breed, which is typically used for meat. And usually slaughtered at the age of six months old. But Sebastian here escaped the farm, and he was actually found under a Farm Sanctuary employee's porch. She brought him here to the farm. A few months later, Jane was found by a wildlife rehab.<br /> <br /> <br /> She survived the flood, and was found cold, and purple, and shivering on a swollen creek embankment. She came to Farm Sanctuary, and then she met Sebastian. It was love at first sight. Pig bond with each other, and they become friends very quickly. And oftentimes when they're separated, they will become depressed. And they'll feel lonely without their partner.<br /> <br /> <br /> Luckily for these two, they have never been separated since they both came to Farm Sanctuary. When they're not sleeping, they're out like room in a barn. They like to eat together, sometimes play about the food. But you know, they always make up at the end of the day. 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A few months later, Jane was found by a wildlife rehab.<br /> <br /> <br /> She survived the flood, and was found cold, and purple, and shivering on a swollen creek embankment. She came to Farm Sanctuary, and then she met Sebastian. It was love at first sight. Pig bond with each other, and they become friends very quickly. And oftentimes when they're separated, they will become depressed. And they'll feel lonely without their partner.<br /> <br /> <br /> Luckily for these two, they have never been separated since they both came to Farm Sanctuary. When they're not sleeping, they're out like room in a barn. They like to eat together, sometimes play about the food. But you know, they always make up at the end of the day. And that's how their love story began.<br /> <br /> <br /> [MUSIC PLAYING]<br /> <br /> <br /> You got this.<br /> <br /> <br /> [LAUGHING]</div> </div> <button class="fs-audio-description__download-button download-button-content-block mobile" aria-label="Download Transcript, Dropdown"> <svg class="icon " role="img" title="" aria-hidden="true" aria-label=""> <use xlink:href=https://www.farmsanctuary.org/content/themes/farm-sanctuary/dist/images/sprite.svg#sprite-download-transcript-icon></use> </svg> <span>Download Transcript</span> </button> <div class="fs-audio-description__download-links mobile"> <a class="download-link" href="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/07/27050837/4793786-Two_Rescued_Pigs_Share_a_Lifetime_Bond-standard-description.mp3" role="button" download>Download Audio</a> <button class="download-link download-link--text" type="button" value="[MUSIC PLAYING] Sebastian was like the head of the pack, he is the bad boy. And Jane was like, oh, I like you. Sebastian is a Hampshire breed, which is typically used for meat. And usually slaughtered at the age of six months old. But Sebastian here escaped the farm, and he was actually found under a Farm Sanctuary employee's porch. She brought him here to the farm. A few months later, Jane was found by a wildlife rehab.<br /> <br /> <br /> She survived the flood, and was found cold, and purple, and shivering on a swollen creek embankment. She came to Farm Sanctuary, and then she met Sebastian. It was love at first sight. Pig bond with each other, and they become friends very quickly. And oftentimes when they're separated, they will become depressed. And they'll feel lonely without their partner.<br /> <br /> <br /> Luckily for these two, they have never been separated since they both came to Farm Sanctuary. When they're not sleeping, they're out like room in a barn. They like to eat together, sometimes play about the food. But you know, they always make up at the end of the day. And that's how their love story began.<br /> <br /> <br /> [MUSIC PLAYING]<br /> <br /> <br /> You got this.<br /> <br /> <br /> [LAUGHING]">Download Text</button> </div> </div> <div class="body-container --no-text --no-cta "> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="featured_articles_1" class="fs-module fs-featured-article"> <div class="fs-container fs-featured-article-content fs-no-max-width"> <div class="fs-featured-article__articles "> <ul class="main"> <li class="article --main "> <div class="eyebrow --top"> <p>Featured Rescue Stories</p> </div> <div class="image"> <picture class="" data-title="George piglet" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/02/27060926/Header_2019_11-25_FSNY_George_piglet_DSC_5855_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593363216976.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/02/27060926/Header_2019_11-25_FSNY_George_piglet_DSC_5855_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593363216976-1280x636.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/02/27060926/Header_2019_11-25_FSNY_George_piglet_DSC_5855_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593363216976-760x378.jpg"> <img alt="George piglet" title="George piglet" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/02/27060926/Header_2019_11-25_FSNY_George_piglet_DSC_5855_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593363216976.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/02/27060926/Header_2019_11-25_FSNY_George_piglet_DSC_5855_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593363216976.jpg" alt="George piglet" title="George piglet" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="text-content"> <div class="eyebrow --bottom"> <p>Featured Rescue Stories</p> </div> <h2 class="title"> George: Tiny Piglet Left for Dead Now Has a Big Life Ahead of Him </h2> <p class="description"> Born at a New York petting zoo, George’s life began on display. But despite all of the eyes on him and his family, few noticed how much George suffered in plain sight. </p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/tiny-piglet-baby-pig-petting-zoo-finds-sanctuary-farm-animal-rescue/" class="cta-button" aria-label="Read more about George: Tiny Piglet Left for Dead Now Has a Big Life Ahead of Him"> read more </a> </div> </li> </ul> <ul class="sub"> <li class="article "> <a class="image-link" href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/starving-pigs-rescued-cattaraugus-county/"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pig at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2018/07/27052717/DSC_3581-1600x1068.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2018/07/27052717/DSC_3581-scaled-e1592269884860-1280x855.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2018/07/27052717/DSC_3581-scaled-e1592269884860-760x508.jpg"> <img alt="Pig at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2018/07/27052717/DSC_3581-1600x1068.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2018/07/27052717/DSC_3581-1600x1068.jpg" alt="Pig at Farm Sanctuary" title="Pig at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> </a> <div class="text-content"> <div class="date"> <p>July 19, 2018</p> </div> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/starving-pigs-rescued-cattaraugus-county/" class="title-link"> <h2 class="title"> <span>Starving Pigs Rescued in Cattaraugus County, NY</span> </h2> </a> <p class="description"> <span>Barns where terrified animals lived in complete darkness, where a lack of air flow caused the air to reek of ammonia and food and water were nowhere to be found.</span> </p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/starving-pigs-rescued-cattaraugus-county/" class="cta-button" aria-label="Read more about Starving Pigs Rescued in Cattaraugus County, NY"> Read more </a> </div> </li> <li class="article "> <a class="image-link" href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/piglets-rescued-roadside/"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Anna and Maybelle pigs at Farm Sanctuary" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/07/27052418/2015_07-09_FSNY_Anna_Black_Maybelle_Pink_pigs_DSC_3105_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1068.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/07/27052418/2015_07-09_FSNY_Anna_Black_Maybelle_Pink_pigs_DSC_3105_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593665679842-1280x768.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/07/27052418/2015_07-09_FSNY_Anna_Black_Maybelle_Pink_pigs_DSC_3105_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled-e1593665679842-760x456.jpg"> <img alt="Anna and Maybelle pigs at Farm Sanctuary" title="Anna and Maybelle pigs at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/07/27052418/2015_07-09_FSNY_Anna_Black_Maybelle_Pink_pigs_DSC_3105_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1068.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2015/07/27052418/2015_07-09_FSNY_Anna_Black_Maybelle_Pink_pigs_DSC_3105_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1068.jpg" alt="Anna and Maybelle pigs at Farm Sanctuary" title="Anna and Maybelle pigs at Farm Sanctuary" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> </a> <div class="text-content"> <div class="date"> <p>July 24, 2015</p> </div> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/piglets-rescued-roadside/" class="title-link"> <h2 class="title"> <span>Anna and Maybelle: Piglets Rescued from Roadside</span> </h2> </a> <p class="description"> <span>It took two days for animal advocate Julie Robertson to capture Anna and Maybelle.</span> </p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/piglets-rescued-roadside/" class="cta-button" aria-label="Read more about Anna and Maybelle: Piglets Rescued from Roadside"> Read more </a> </div> </li> <li class="article "> <a class="image-link" href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/florida-farm-animal-rescue-cruelty-case/"> <div class="image"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="image-overlay"></div> <picture class="" data-title="Pig behind a cage on the property" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054937/pig_01.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054937/pig_01.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054937/pig_01.jpg"> <img alt="Pig behind a cage on the property" title="Pig behind a cage on the property" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054937/pig_01.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2020/05/27054937/pig_01.jpg" alt="Pig behind a cage on the property" title="Pig behind a cage on the property" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> </a> <div class="text-content"> <div class="date"> <p>May 22, 2020</p> </div> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/florida-farm-animal-rescue-cruelty-case/" class="title-link"> <h2 class="title"> <span>Collaborating Against Cruelty: Six Sanctuaries Rescue 113 Animals From Backyard Butcher</span> </h2> </a> <p class="description"> <span>Find out how Farm Sanctuary and five other animal Sanctuaries came together to help rescue over 100 animals from a backyard butcher in Florida.</span> </p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/florida-farm-animal-rescue-cruelty-case/" class="cta-button" aria-label="Read more about Collaborating Against Cruelty: Six Sanctuaries Rescue 113 Animals From Backyard Butcher"> Read more </a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </section> <section id="adopt_a_farm_animal_slider_1" class="fs-module fs-adopt-animal-slider adopt-animal-terJ0ZnOI6" data-hash-id="terJ0ZnOI6"> <div class="fs-container header-container"> <div class="fs-adopt-animal-slider__header"> <h2 class="headline">Sponsor a Rescued Pig</h2> </div> </div> <div class="white-gradient"></div> <div class="fs-container fs-adopt-animal-slider-content" data-slide-length="3"> <div class="animal-slider glide"> <div class="glide__track" data-glide-el="track"> <div class="glide__slides"> <div class="adopt-slide glide__slide active" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="Animal slide 1 of 3" role="group" data-slide-index="1" > <div class="adopt-slide-container"> <div class="adopt-slide-image"> <picture class="" data-title="Blue Pig" tabindex="0"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/06/10182046/2024_01_12_FSAC_Blue_Pig_DM_1799-1600x1067.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/06/10182046/2024_01_12_FSAC_Blue_Pig_DM_1799-1280x853.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/06/10182046/2024_01_12_FSAC_Blue_Pig_DM_1799-760x507.jpg"> <img alt="Blue Pig" title="Blue Pig" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/06/10182046/2024_01_12_FSAC_Blue_Pig_DM_1799-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/06/10182046/2024_01_12_FSAC_Blue_Pig_DM_1799-scaled.jpg" alt="Blue Pig" title="Blue Pig" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="adopt-slide-description"> <div class="name-cta"> <p class="eyebrow">Adopt a Farm Animal</p> <p class="animal-name">Blue</p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/adopt-a-farm-animal-blue/" target="_blank" class="adopt-cta" tabindex="0" > Sponsor Blue </a> </div> <div class="description-textlink"> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container">Blue was raised as part of Future Farmers of America. Thankfully, Blue’s young guardian was determined to give this fun-loving pig a chance to live.</div> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/adopt-a-farm-animal-blue/" target="_self" class="animal-link" tabindex="0" > Read more </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="adopt-slide glide__slide " aria-hidden="true" aria-label="Animal slide 2 of 3" role="group" data-slide-index="2" > <div class="adopt-slide-container"> <div class="adopt-slide-image"> <picture class="" data-title="Jodean" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/11/22212338/2024_09_13_FSAC_Jodean_Pig_DM_4044-1600x1067.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/11/22212338/2024_09_13_FSAC_Jodean_Pig_DM_4044-1280x853.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/11/22212338/2024_09_13_FSAC_Jodean_Pig_DM_4044-760x507.jpg"> <img alt="Jodean" title="Jodean" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/11/22212338/2024_09_13_FSAC_Jodean_Pig_DM_4044-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2024/11/22212338/2024_09_13_FSAC_Jodean_Pig_DM_4044-scaled.jpg" alt="Jodean" title="Jodean" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="adopt-slide-description"> <div class="name-cta"> <p class="eyebrow">Adopt a Farm Animal</p> <p class="animal-name">Jodean</p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/adopt-a-farm-animal-jodean/" target="_blank" class="adopt-cta" tabindex="-1" > Sponsor Jodean </a> </div> <div class="description-textlink"> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container">Jodean was found running through a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night. After a three a.m. call, local animal control officers brought the pigs to safety.</div> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/adopt-a-farm-animal-jodean/" target="_self" class="animal-link" tabindex="-1" > Read more </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="adopt-slide glide__slide " aria-hidden="true" aria-label="Animal slide 3 of 3" role="group" data-slide-index="3" > <div class="adopt-slide-container"> <div class="adopt-slide-image"> <picture class="" data-title="George pig" tabindex="-1"> <source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/06/22120206/2020_03-05_FSNY_George_piglet_running_in_pasture_DSC_7574_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1600x1065.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 760px)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/06/22120206/2020_03-05_FSNY_George_piglet_running_in_pasture_DSC_7574_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-1280x852.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 0)" srcset="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/06/22120206/2020_03-05_FSNY_George_piglet_running_in_pasture_DSC_7574_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-760x506.jpg"> <img alt="George pig" title="George pig" loading="lazy" role="img" data-src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/06/22120206/2020_03-05_FSNY_George_piglet_running_in_pasture_DSC_7574_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://assets.farmsanctuary.org/content/uploads/2021/06/22120206/2020_03-05_FSNY_George_piglet_running_in_pasture_DSC_7574_CREDIT_Farm_Sanctuary-scaled.jpg" alt="George pig" title="George pig" loading="lazy" role="img" ></noscript> </picture> </div> <div class="adopt-slide-description"> <div class="name-cta"> <p class="eyebrow">Adopt a Farm Animal</p> <p class="animal-name">George</p> <a href="https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/adopt-a-farm-animal-george" target="" class="adopt-cta" tabindex="-1" > Sponsor George </a> </div> <div class="description-textlink"> <div class="description wysiwyg-text-container">George was the smallest and sickest of a little born at a petting zoo. 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