• 70% of the pigs reared in this country are farmed intensively which means they don’t get to see the light of day and live in overcrowded conditions without bedding.
• A week before a sow gives birth she is caged in a crate where she has no room to move around. She stays there for up to four weeks until her piglets are weaned and taken away from her.
• Pigs get distressed and bored when jammed together in large numbers, so for their own ‘welfare’ we remove part of their tails, without a vet or anaesthetic. Stops them biting them off you see.
• Chickens can live up to seven years. They usually don’t make it past seven weeks. We kill over 800 million each year.
• In a natural environment chickens perch like any other bird, walk about, scratch for food and feel comfortable in flocks. Farmed intensively, chickens live in large, windowless sheds with anything up to 50,000 birdsinside. They are each allotted about the same space as a sheet of A4 paper.
• Birds factory-farmed today grow 300% faster than they did 50 years ago. Chickens grow so fast and get so heavy that they can’t walk properly. Some can’t walk at all. Towards the end of their brief lives, the birds live in the stench of ammonia from the poo-caked floor in their shed.