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Footage that appears to show newborn piglets lying in faeces, pigs with pus-covered wounds and pig carcasses in varying states of decomposition has been published by animal welfare campaigners in Spain.

Spain is expected to overtake Germany this year as the EU’s biggest pork producer. In 2019, a record 53 million pigs were slaughtered across the country, fuelling demand for products such as chorizo, tenderloin and lard across the EU and around the world.

The photos and videos, recorded during undercover visits in 2019 and 2020 to more than 30 pigs farms across Spain, were published by Tras los Muros, which translates as Behind the Walls, a personal project launched by Spanish photojournalist Aitor Garmendia. Tras los Muros said the farms were in the Spanish regions of Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, home to around 17% of the country’s more than 86,000 pig farms

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...verely-injured-pigs-on-spanish-farms-released
https://traslosmuros.com/en/pig-factory-farm-investigation

 

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Spain is second only to Germany when it comes to animals sent to slaughter (52,982,310 in 2019) and in the tons of meat produced (4,641,160 in 2019).26 This apparent anomaly between production and slaughter is due to the fact that Germany imports more animals for slaughter from other EU countries (information received from the General Directorate of Agricultural Productions and Markets in May 2020).

Furthermore, these figures do not include animals that are killed on the farms themselves for economic or other reasons, or those who do not survive the conditions on the farms. In the farrowing phase alone, casualties can exceed 20% of litters.

 

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Sinkieland imports pork from Brazil, Australia, USA and Indonesia.

Maybe China too, if you count some brands of canned luncheon meat.

 

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Fattening shed where we find scenes of cannibalism, corpses in a state of decomposition and remains of bones. Castilla La Mancha, 2020.

 

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Gestation area
The process of industrial pig farming begins in the gestation rooms, where sows are inseminated and kept in individual crates for intermittent periods of several weeks. These sheds contain no bedding material where the sows can rest comfortably. Instead, the flooring is hard concrete, with openings to allow feces and urine to be flushed out. These openings are not always effective, and excrement accumulates at the rear of the crates. In two of the gestation rooms to which we have accessed the slurry had overflowed and formed puddles under the crates.

 

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Farrowing crate where delivery and lactation take place. After a period that ranges between 21 and 28 days, the sow undergoes forced separation from her young. Castilla and Leon, 2020.

Crushing is one of the leading causes of death in piglets. Aragon, 2019.

 

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Commonly used implements in the maternity area. Amputated tails are seen in the lower right corner of the box. Aragon, 2019. One of the most widespread measures to deal with this behavior is tail docking. The procedure consists of the amputation of part of the tail and, according to various studies, causes acute pain and stress. Legislation prohibits it from being performed routinely, however, an audit by the European Commission carried out in Spain during 2017 found that an estimated 98.5% of pigs had been subjected to the procedure regardless. The report also concluded that the authorities have not adopted effective measures to prevent it.

 

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The three most common causes of death in piglets are crushing, hypothermia, and starvation. All these factors seem strengthened in the sows affected by the genetic lines that have been developed during recent years. Aragón 2019.

The birth takes place in the farrowing crates, where the sows also defecate and urinate. The piglet in the image was still alive .

Dead piglet on the floor of a farrowing crate. Aragón, 2019

 

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Dead piglet on the floor of a farrowing crate. Aragón, 2019

When piglets die, they are not always removed immediately. During our time documenting the farrowing areas, we saw corpses of pigs lying in corridors, accumulated in a corner, in plastic buckets, on wheelbarrows, and even inside the enclosures themselves, along with their living siblings. Some bodies showed signs of having been there for days or having been partially eaten, probably by cats or rodents.

 

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When piglets from different litters are mixed fights for establishing hierarchies within the group take place. Aggressions cause injuries and affect the welfare of the pigs. Castilla-La Mancha, 2020.

Piglets with health problems in transition area.

Decomposing body alongside live animals.

Weaned piglets in the transition area. This is the stage that precedes the fattening process. Aragón, 2019.

 

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Pig in agony

Arthritis

Leg injuries are common among pigs.

Corpse in fattening area.

 

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Cannibalism

In the most acute stages, tail-biting can lead to cannibalism

Tail-biting is an abnormal behaviour.

Cannibalism in fattening shed.

 

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Rectal prolapse
Rectal prolapse consists of parts of the rectum being forced out through the anus due to increased abdominal pressure and a weakening of the sphincter and anal tissues. Various factors that can influence its development have been pinpointed, such as infections, low temperatures, the density of animals per enclosure, genetics, or nutritional deficiencies. If the pig that suffers from this condition is not isolated, they may end up being cannibalized by the rest of the group.

 

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Abnormal swellings: abscesses and hernias

 

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Eye infections
Conjunctivitis is inflammation of the conjunctiva, a thin, delicate membrane that lines the eyeball and eyelids. Permanent exposure to microorganisms, poor ventilation, the presence of high concentrations of toxic gases, and excess dust have been described as potential causes. Many pigs were suffering from eye conditions, some serious, in enclosures with infrastructural deficiencies and poor hygiene.

 

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In this shed we found bodies of pigs that had not been removed in months

 

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The stunning of pigs during lactation is done with a pair of less powerful clamps between two workers. While one holds the animal, the other applies the electric shock to the head.

A pig is burned alive with a blowtorch in a spanish slaughterhouse.

Scalding tank. Several investigations have proven that many pigs are still alive at this stage of the process.

 

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Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms
Former detainees claim that the forcible feeding of pork is most rampant in re-education camps and detention centres.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...o-eat-pork-as-hog-farming-in-xinjiang-expands


In November 2019, Xinjiang’s top administrator, Shohrat Zakir, that the autonomous region would be turned into a “pig-raising hub”; a move that Uighurs say is an affront to their way of life. The Xinjiang government also started an initiative called “free food” for Muslim children in kindergarten, serving them pork dishes without their knowledge, she added.

The idea was that by starting them young, the Muslim children would acquire a taste for non-halal food. “China is using and will use different tactics to force Uighurs and other Muslim population to eat pork,” Sautbay said.

Last year, the Italy-based AsiaNews alleged that during the Chinese Lunar New Year, which happened to be the “Year of the Pig”, government officials reportedly delivered pork directly to Muslim households in Ili, and insisted that Uighurs decorate their homes for the festive season.

 

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Lots of similar things happening in poultry farms and cattle farms. If you're scared or guilt-tripped, go be a vegan.