Today on factory farms, piglets are separated from their mothers shortly after birth, castrated, and have their tails cut off-without anesthesia. Pigs are forced to spend their entire lives in cramped, narrow stalls. When they reach the slaughterhouse, they are commonly unloaded with electric prods and gaff-type metal hooks, which are jabbed into their eyes, mouths, and rectums. After intense confinement, many pigs are so weak they can barely walk. We want to stress that every pig is Babe.
Every pig has interests, talents, and needs.
No pig deserves to be turned into bacon or sausage. Now that the pork industry has a surplus of pigs, farmers are hanging pigs from overpasses, abandoning pigs at shelters, and even giving pigs away to animal activists-all to draw attention to low prices.