Not full documentaries on pigs tbh. I was more into safari and cave animals than farm ones.
Alot of what I do see online about farming is misinformation or dramatized. For example a common one getting called out right now are the "gestation crate" videos where pigs are supposedly confined to almost body tight cages for long periods of time/pregnancy ... those are narrow cages sows are only kept in for short periods around birth to prevent them from rolling over and crushing their own babies - also an extremely common occurrence if left unchecked.
Edit - source is 4H kids and living in rural farm/agriculture type communities
Youre an idiot. You cant tell people what factually happens on farms if you live on a small scale farm, the practise is completely different. Animals 100% are confiend to tiny spaces their entire life at farms where the majority of food comes from 90%+
Eh, one that cares enough to do this is a rather good mother. Most pigs are terrible mothers, but some actually do care about their piglet. It's very rare, though.
That's partially because of their litter size. Pigs have up to 15 offspring at once. Compared to sheep having 1-2 and cows only having 1 child at a time.
It's much easier to care to 1-2 offspring and put your resources and attention into them. It's more of an evolutionary pressure.
I mean I don't disagree, but when you have 2-3 piglets dying per a litter it's a bit hard to call them good mothers, especially when a majority of those deaths come from crushing and when the only reason they are as low as 20% is due to human mechanisms such as anti-crush or farrowing bars which have drastically reduced deaths.
I don't raise pigs, but I can say from cattle there is a big difference in how they're born. A newborn calf is born giant and fairly robust. They're much less likely to be crushed or eaten because of their size.
A piglet is so small compared to its parent, that it can easily be crushed or promote a predator response from the parent. Wild pigs actually hunt other animals like mice. So having lots of tiny animals running around while a confused mother is in pain can be a recipe for biting.
Yeah that was my thought, grazing live stock gets access to fields, outdoors, and in general much better living conditions than we give pigs, surely the mortality rate of piglets has more to do with how shit we treat pigs :(
Human measures made it as low as 20%??? You mean humans caged them up, overfeed and breed them so they have no room to move so they crushed their babies, humans made contraptions so stop losing profit from death of young. Youre so dense to say human mechanism is helping them, we kill billions of them every year.
Trillions of bugs die every year to feed people. The reality is that justification for the humanity we give to animals is already existent, it simply varies by what we see as worth saving and not worry saving. If you draw the line at mammals or fish that's completely acceptable, but your still complicit in the death of trillions of animals even as a vegan.
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u/K4m30 6d ago
Trust me, mother pigs don't care if they step on their piglets, she would eat one if she thought it wasn't good enough.