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The
tight-fitting metal cage suddenly surrounds you. Your heart
starts to race as your mind turns fuzzy and blank, realizing
there is no escape. This feeling is panicked desperation. And
it's what piggie mamas-to-be experience every day in
factory farms as they're stuffed into gestation
crates, where they're locked for months on end. Gestation
crates are extremely small cages used to confine pregnant pigs
until they give birth to a new litter of baby piglets. At that
point, the babies are torn away — and then the mama is forcibly re-impregnated and thrust
back back into her cruel, inescapable coffin of a
cage. The average sow is forced to breed offspring
for slaughter five to seven different times before the
industry is done with her.
While locked in these
enclosures, the mamas watch helplessly as their excrement
piles up around their legs, unable to move or turn around.
They can barely even stand up or sit down. Of all the pigs
raised for pork in the U.S., 95% come from factory farms,
where these types of torturous Medieval enclosures
aren't the exception — they're the rule. Numerous
companies, including Smithfield Foods, have tried to fool
consumers by pledging to phase out the use of gestation
crates. But now, over five years after their initial promise,
nothing has changed. Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the largest
producer of pork both in the U.S. and also in the
world, murdering nearly 30 million pigs every
single year. It's time for them to realize we're
watching, and that we demand they follow through on their
promises. Sign the petition telling giant factory farming
corporation Smithfield Foods, Inc. to finally end its use of
all gestation crates! Sign the petition.
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. The
traumatic cruelty of gestation crates can't be overstated. It's time for Smithfield Foods to fulfil its
promise and remove all gestation crates from its facilities
now. |
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