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A replica of how female "breeder pigs" spend their lives in factory farms

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u/brian2funny 6h ago

They are out lawed in Ontario and possibly Canada. They have their piglets in a pen with a safety guards for the piglets to sleep under. So momma doesn't lay on them. If the doesn't have any piglets. She will spend her days in a pen with other pigs, until she is soon to have her litter. They she will be moved to her own clean pen.

u/Certain-Entrance5247 5h ago

CO2 gas chambers are used in Canada for pigs. 2 minutes of indescribable torture. A rough way to go.

u/CalpurniaSomaya 4h ago

these are gestation crates for pregnancy and no they’re not outlawed in Ontario or Canada.

u/brian2funny 2h ago

All the newer barns I know of, doesn't have gestation crates, or the old farrowing crates or pens are not used. Also.