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Sow Photo Gallery |
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| Minnesota ranks 3rd in the nation in "Pork Production." Pigs follow primates and dolphin’s in intelligence and suffer from lack of movement, and from intensive confinement. Thousands of Minnesota breeding sows spend their miserable lives imprisoned like this, unable to walk or turn around. Some cruel and painful animal husbandry practices have been banned in other countries such as Sweden, and England. | ||
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This building houses hundreds of pregnant sows. |
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| In Minnesota hundreds of thousands of female breeding pigs live in gestation crates for most of their lives. | ||
Many factory farm animals suffer from filthy conditions. Millions of pigs and piglets die annually from stressful conditions and disease in the USA. One US corporation had 420,000 hogs die in 1997. |
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Breeding sows are confined in small crates not much larger than their bodies. |
Confined sow with piglets in a large Minnesota factory farm. |
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| Factory raised pigs seldom exercise or have exposure to outside temperatures. When the animals are transported, temperature extremes and handling can be very stressful. Many do not survive. | ||
