Re-reading Sapiens, I’ve reached the chapter where Yuval talks about the various horrors of animal husbandry for meat and dairy. Did a quick Google on meat farms with ‘Happy’ in their name. There’s a ton of them! Here’s one, for example. The photo shows a piglet that couldn’t be happier. To the right, some merchandise, it says I like my butt rubbed, and my pork pulled.
In the USA, 100,000,000 pigs are slaughtered every year. A pig’s pregnancy lasts 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, producing 8-12 piglets who stay with their mother for one and a half to two months (in the USA – 1-2 weeks), and then are sent to a separate place. Or not, as in the photo. This cycle is repeated 3-5 times with the mother, after which they say goodbye to the sow forever. The piglets are sent to their deaths six months after birth.
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