Enabled by drugs which allow animals to be intensively confined, and encouraged by federal tax breaks which favored large-scale corporate agriculture, industrial pig farms now dominate the pork industry. This has created dire consequences for family farmers, consumers, the environment, and, of course, the animals. About Pigs Contrary to common perception, pigs are intelligent, sensitive, and clean animals. When given the opportunity, they will allot separate areas for resting and defecating. Pigs are also very active, able to travel 30 miles a day at a quick pace.
Pigs naturally live in groups and are governed by a well-defined social order.
In the evening, group members will prepare a communal nest from branches and grass in which they will spend the night. The behavior of domesticated pigs bred for factory farm production were found to be identical to those of pigs living in the wild. Unfortunately, the agribusiness drug companies and large corporate farms that profit from factory farming vigorously oppose any system other than the drug-dependent confinement methods which now dominate the pork industry. Here a Crate, There a Crate Factory farming has long been associated with veal production. And in her case, the agony is prolonged for years.