I gruppi per i diritti degli animali affermano che l’allevamento di maiali irlandesi ha “abuso sistemico”

All animal farming has abuse. It’s just on a scale.

I completely agree with the vegans and animal rights activists, but don’t live by it at all. It’s something I try to just push out of my mind because it would be too inconvenient to give up animal products. But that does make me feel bad about myself, I so clearly am not living in accordance with my own values in this area.

When you get into mass farming it’s not usually nice, poor pigs 😕 they’re more intelligent than people know

I’ve reared pigs for my own freezer

Without a doubt a free range pig has a better life than one reared in a shed but the flip side is pigs are very hard on ground. Also based on my experience free range pork tastes far better

I only kept 2 at a time and they’d plough up a quarter acre in a few weeks easily. I doubt we’d be able to produce nearly as much pork as we do if it wasn’t farmed intensively

Also has to be said the current system doesn’t really benefit farmers either there’s a handful (like less than 100) large pig farms accounting for over 90% of pigs produced. Whereas up to the 60s or 70s pigs were ubiquitous in rural communities, a few years ago when I got my first pigs it was a novelty among the neighbours yet was common not that long ago

I’ll never give up meat. But I’ll happily give up industrially farmed meat. Unfortunately I’m poor

Who squealed?