Veggie Month
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Below you will find a selection of Animal Aid's undercover investigations into the farming industry - ideal for sending to friends or posting on social networking websites such as Myspace or Facebook.
The British pig farming industry makes repeated claims that it has some of the highest welfare standards in the world. Its promotional message bolsters this claim by showing healthy-looking pigs on thick straw or out in the fields with plenty of space to roam.
In March and April 2008, as part of a major investigation, Animal Aid visited 10 English pig farms spanning five counties: Cornwall, Somerset, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire. Instead of idyllic images of straw-filled pens amidst leafy trees and bathed in sunlight, we found squalor, filth, death and disease. Where the industry portrays pigs growing up outside with acres of space to roam, we found dead and dying piglets living in utterly barren, overcrowded pens. In the promotional images, pigs can root around in the earth. In reality, these inquisitive, lively and intelligent animals often had nothing but a metal chain - and sometimes nothing at all - to stimulate them and help fulfil their basic instincts.