Farms: Juliet visits a typical British pig farm
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Will you accept the Face Off challenge and find out for yourself what happens on Britain's factory farms? Filmed by Viva! Campaigns Ltd. 0117 944 1000 info@viva.org.uk www.viva.org.uk/faceoff FAQs: Q. Why not report these farms to the authorities? A. We do, but rarely anything happens. Find out more: www.viva.org.uk/faceoff/faqs Q. Surely this type of farming can’t be legal? A. Find out more: www.viva.org.uk/faceoff/faqs Q. I hate factory farming. That’s why I only buy organic, outdoor bred, free range or from my local butcher. Surely that’s better? A. Find out more: www.viva.org.uk/faceoff/faqs Juliet Gellatley investigates the UK pig industry.
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Thank you for putting yourselves through that!
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Disturbing!
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Thank you for this. But what I really want to thank you for as well is your uncompromising message. Go vegan. Because anything less is animal abuse 💚
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Pigs, piglets...very smooth...piglets, water vapor, not smoke....pigs, hogs, swine, very cool. Pigs, hogs, this one cartridge will get me through the whole day. Pigs, hogs, very smooth too.
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my boyfriend made me so angry when he said being vegan is still too extreme after seeing this. He said that vegans should tell to eat less meat rather than saying to give up meat. I feel so alone knowing that he thinks that. is hard.
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Viva! - Is it okay if I use some of this video for one of my own on my Vegan-promoting channel?
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Was this an undercover investigation?
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No, the sentiment is nice but your conclusion is the opposite of reality. If we stop eating pigs, they will go extinct. They have been bred to be domestic food animals. Stop eating them and they will never be bred by their owners ever again. Release them into the wild and they will be driven to extinction by their environment.
If you do not eat them, you support the genocide and complete elimination of domestic pigs as a species. In a way, that is.
The only hope they possibly could have would be to try and re-breed them into teacup pigs, but only an EXTREMELY small number of people have the ability or the resources to adopt an animal companion that is over 200 lbs. So right now, in the present, there is no way to abstain from pork without supporting their extinction. Maybe in a 100 years domestic pigs will be much more useful for tasks other than being made into food, however that is entirely speculation.
If the entire pork industry suddenly collapsed tomorrow and all the pigs would be released, they would either live in the wild (then immediately die in the wild), or enter animal sanctuaries where they would almost never be adopted as pets, and so they would simply die of old age without serving any purpose whatsoever. Continuing to breed them in a sanctuary would be a massive resource sink, because the pigs would be living and reproducing (massive litters) without performing any task that gives humans reparation for the care we provide to them. So then these animal sanctuaries will eventually stop breeding the pigs and let them die out to prevent their own economic fallout.
Voila, domestic pigs are now extinct.
Seriously, if you oppose the consumption of pork by anyone, you are simultaneously demanding that domestic swine no longer exist. You're so moved by the horribly pained face of an abused pig, so your reaction is to support them being euthanized or never being born in the first place. That's totally altruistic, right? That makes sense, right?! RIGHT?! No. Face reality. Contemplate hard upon it, think outside the box you have stuffed yourself into, challenge your own philosophies and beliefs, and return here to me and tell me: Do you still think rejecting pork will actually prevent pigs from suffering?
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"The UK has exemplary animal welfare standards"
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The dishonesty starts from title, this wasn't a typical farm, it was chosen for maximum emotional manipulation. When talking about farrowing crates not mentioning their purpose, to prevent sow crushing piglets with her weight, is another dishonesty. And "supposedly for cannibalism" is misleading since cutting tails of every piglet is a time consuming effort, it wouldn't be done if it wasn't necessary. Finally people who have their senses don't become vegan.
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There are other alternatives to going vegan. A lot of people will outright dismiss going vegan, but may be more inclined to buy high welfare, outdoor/free range organic meat....
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4:25 "Go vegan" ok so what do we do with all the animals?
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So sad :( Definitely going to show this video in Manchester.
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pure evil, its all about money, f,,,, the animals money money money
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something I realised recently was the slaughtering part of the animal agriculture business Is the most humane part of the animals life.
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hopefully one day this cruelty will stop, I stopped eating meat 4 years ago after I became aware what goes in factory farms, don't miss it at all and will never eat meat again.
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Juliet is amazing. i saw a talk of hers.
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thank you viva once again for spreading the truth. the woman was very brave. x
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i think this is terrible i am a full time farmer keeping sheep cows and a few pigs farmer in North Wales and i have 6 breeding pigs and i have had a sow who gave birth last week and they have a shed too them selves . each day me or my wife or the worker clean them out and they get clean straw and food and water . i would do anything to get them out of that horrible environment. all the meet i eat is my own. thanks
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The most shocking thing is that this is a supposedly a 'welfare farm'. Thanks for bringing this to people attention.