The image at the top you see is of a pig in a farrowing crate.
Farrowing crates are an extremely cruel practice that happens on factory farms today. They are places where pigs are crammed into tiny cages.
Pigs will spend their whole life in these cages until they are slaughtered.
The farrowing cages are so small, that pigs cannot turn around in them. Imagine having to live in a condition like that for all of your life.
Mother pigs are forced to live in the conditions you see above.
There are bars stopping mother pigs from being close to their babies and warmingly embracing them. The mothers don't get to spend time outside running around with their young, enjoying life and properly looking after them. Instead, the mothers are forced to live in a tiny cage that they can't move in.
This is the barbaric reality of factory farms and farrowing crates.
Farrowing crates are similar to sow stalls and gestation crates. The crates and stalls have a similar purpose for the pigs that are held in the crates and stalls.
That purpose is the cruel exploitation of pigs.
There are places that have banned these crates. For example, California banned gestation crates and Germany banned sow stalls.
In the UK, sow stalls were banned in 1999. However, farrowing crates are still legal in the UK. Earlier this year, MP's in the Houses of Commons (the UK's parliament), rejected an attempt to ban farrowing crates. But that doesn't mean that we should give up trying to end this barbaric practice. We should continue to campaign to our elected representatives to end this cruel practice.
Over 100,000 people asked the government to end the cage age.
It's time to end farrowing crates in the UK.
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