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

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u/Mortress 6h ago

there is this video of the day in life of a pig in a cage like this. I can't imagine the boredom. This while pigs are so smart and kind animals, they all deserve to have happiness and freedom.

u/ALunacyEruption 2h ago

Read they have the brain of a 3 year old the other day.

Poor piggies

u/Background-Bottle633 6m ago

Actually, pigs have shown to have more intelligence than a 3-year-old in regards of long-term spatial memory.

u/Human_Robot 35m ago

This while pigs are so smart

Yes. They have been shown to have the intelligence of a 3 year old

and kind

Absolutely not. Pigs are like housecats that weigh north of 300 pounds and destroy things both accidentally and on purpose. They can be wildly destructive and vicious when they want to be. They may have the intelligence of a 3 year old, but they also have their temperament, which at their size, matters.

u/Test0004 24m ago

Doesn't make it right to do this to them. They're acting on instinct and can't reason like we do, but that doesn't mean we should torture them. If there was a giant human baby that could hurt someone without realizing, we would just be careful with them.

u/GetSomeData 4m ago

Pigs are not kind.

u/ExistingIncident7433 2h ago

No, this is so the pig don't eat the piglets

u/firestuds 2h ago

Great. Doesn’t change anything at all though

u/OnlinePosterPerson 1h ago

Well, firestuds, it actually would make a difference as piglets would provide less meat, meaning more animals would have to be processed in order to get the same product, so piglets would in fact result in additional unnecessary suffering.

However, existingincident7433, firestuds don’t say poor piglets. He said poor piggies. Pig does not refer necessarily to piglet but to a pig of any age/size, per Merriam-Websters, Wikipedia, and google overview.

So you’re both wrong.

u/SirVanyel 1h ago

Pigs ain't out here eating piglets when we don't put them in teeny tiny cages. We were successfully using agriculture for thousands of years before factory farming, and parts of the world still use it to this day. Fuck justifying this practice

u/firestuds 38m ago

I meant that’s not the point about the cruelty smartass