* Pigs … Shortly after birth ( sometimes after only a few days – most often after only a few weeks ), baby pigs are forcibly taken from their mothers . They are then castrated , have their tails snipped off and have their teeth cut out ( all very painful procedures – all performed without anesthesia ). They are then placed into enclosures that are almost always dark , filthy and over-crowded . Healthy females will remain in these conditions until they are old enough to have babies of their own , whereupon they are forcibly impregnated ( what civilized people call “ rape ”), have their babies stolen from them after birth ( just like they were stolen from their own mothers ), and – after repeating this incredibly traumatic process 3 to 5 times over 1.5 to 2 years , their still young bodies “ dry up ” from reproductive exhaustion and they are sent away to become “ pork ” via a terrifyingly brutal slaughterhouse death . Male pigs , on the other hand ( and females deemed ill-suited for forced reproduction ), are over-fed to spur too-rapid growth until they reach the tender age of 4-12 months , and then they too are crammed into transport trucks and sent to the same premature , violent and bloody death at the slaughterhouse .
Objective conclusion : over 99 % of all farmed pigs suffer immensely during the entirety of their filthy , short lives – with the remaining 1 % having slightly better lives , but still dying brutally in their adolescence as well .
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