Fight for Mother Pigs

 

End Mother Pig’s Suffering   Donate Now

We celebrate Mother’s Day to honor the ones who kept us healthy and safe when we were too young to care for ourselves.   Human beings are born helpless. We need someone to feed us, bathe us, play with us, and teach us basic life skills. These needs are not so different in the animal world. Sadly, on a factory farm, a mother pig is denied every single one of her natural instincts of mothering, and her piglets are ripped away from her at the first opportunity.   Right now, around the world, there are more than 80 million Mother pigs who suffer daily in tiny metal cages with no room to comfortably move or turn around. Not only is Mother pig confined to a small area on barren concrete flooring, the air filled with noxious ammonia from her collected waste, her babies will be forcibly removed from her just days after their birth and will undergo painful mutilations like teeth grinding and tail clipping all without any pain relief while Mother pig watches, unable to comfort their squeals of anguish. World Animal Protection knows there is a better way. Which is why we are working hard to end the suffering of farmed animals by transforming the global food system.    But the current cruel reality remains for millions. A day prior to birthing her piglets, Mother pig’s natural instinct will kick in, and she will feel the need to begin nesting. Her cramped, stressful living quarters will prevent her from doing this and cause a great amount of pain and frustration for her. These emotions combined with her already heightened hormonal state can, and do, cause severe complications during the painful birthing process.     It does not have to be this way. Donate Now   The cold metal bars of a farrowing crate will keep Mother pig cruelly separated from her piglets, who will clammer around her cage to access her milk in the early weeks of their life. Rendered relatively immobile, Mother pig will be unable to interact or display the affection she wishes to her newborns. Then, shortly after being born, her piglets are ripped away from her while squealing in protest, and she is given seven to ten days of rest before she is returned to a gestation crate, inseminated, and the cruel cycle of suffering starts again.    With your support, we are working to create systems and policies that free these helpless Mother pigs from the torture they continue to face every day. World Animal Protection has already had some success convincing large companies such as Kroger and JBS to end the cruel practices like painful mutilations and gestation crates. And we continue to educate the public about the dangers posed by factory farming, such as the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and urge them to choose more plant-based foods to lower the demand for animal products.    Will you stand with us to fight for the welfare and just treatment of animals like Mother pig and help us end the cycle of cruelty? Sincerely, Liz Quick-Corral World Animal Protection Director of Development   Donate Now

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