Thread by @WeAnimals

Factory farming has reached new heights.

This is pig farming in China. 24 floors dedicated to pig breeding and raising. 1.2 million pigs will come out of this facility each year.

It begs the question, what on earth are we doing?

Credit: Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

"The female pigs were whisked away dozens at a time in industrial elevators to the higher floors where the hogs would reside from insemination to maturity."

nytimes.com/2023/02/08/bus…

But it's not just China consuming pigs at an alarming rate or in deplorable conditions. In the USA, producers are still fighting to keep pigs in #gestationcrates.

weanimalsmedia.org/2022/10/07/us-…

These farms and industries don't scale up on their own. Our demand for animal products fuels them. This isn't a story about Chinese pork production; it's a cautionary tale about the consequences of our food choices.

Credit: Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

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“We tolerate modern hog farming because we’re kept in ignorance of it. If we had a chance to look pigs in the eye, we might have trouble looking at ourselves in the mirror.” – Mark Essig
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Some pig farms grow vertically, and some expand out.

📷: Aerial views of CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations). North Carolina, USA, 2018.

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