Breeding. Image: Animal Rights Watch E.V. (Ariwa)
The animal lawyer Friederike Schmitz describes the life of a typical Tonnies pig: from his birth to slaughter
The life of the pig begins in the porcine waistplace. There, the sows in Germany are often kept in Castle. Up to four weeks they spend there without moving. Then come a while in group fertilization and birth to a corporate cafe. There the piglets are born. In nature, the mother was now building a nest that streaks piglets, show them where there are food, raise them as they do all the suction animals. All this is not possible there.
The pigs are then cut off the marigold. In the mastays she was eaten the otherwise later each other: from stress and boredom. In addition, the tall piglets without charging are cut out the testicles. Otherwise, the pigs develop in their pubertat — ie with about half a year — a certain boar odor. Such meat can not sell well.
After three to four weeks, the piglets will then be taken away from the mother and come to a rearing stable. They then move several times — either within a company, but often between multiple companies. How much space you have depends on your weight: under 50 kg you have 0.5 square meters of space, which increases up to 0.75 square meters per pig with 110 kg. That’s the battle weight.
In the mastanlay you have a column floor that should pass through feces and urine. That’s what works only conditionally. There you can not do anything about what you would like to do under natural circumstances. Pigs are lively, curious animals. To the food they are actually in the ground. That does not work there.
For body care and cooling they became souple. You can do this in the mastay at best in your own excrement. Pigs race and explore the area. That too is imperial. In Germany, it is mandatory to offer you employed. This is often a wooden pad on a metal chain. On the chewing a bit around, but lose the interest quickly. Pigs are just pretty smart animals. It’s not so exciting to chew the whole time on a wooden block.
Of course you can not pursue your normal social behavior. Diseases and injuries are also widely used. At the column floor, they hurt the claws. From the fecal and urine vapors you get lung diseases. Many animals are ill, though they will only half a year old. Many pigs die long before they are slaughtered. Uber a thousand pigs per day per day or pass to untreated wounds.
The incorporation will be slaughtered after six months. Under other conditions, pigs can be up to ten years old. The charging happens either by gas or electric access. Both brings sorry. Tonnes shut down groups of pigs in a lift into an area with carbon dioxide.
The pigs will survive there a death fight: they have the feeling to suffocate and grabbing the air. Afterwards you will be moved up again. There they are raised to the piles and killed by knife stitch. If you are blowing, come to a Hivers Bruhbad where the bristles are removed. Afterwards they are disassembled by workers and workers. This is how it does 55 million pigs per year in Germany.
Unless the pig is not stabbed properly and is not bleeding in good time. If the anesthetic decreases, it wakes up, for example, in the hot Bruhbad again. This applies in accordance with estimates about 500.000 pigs per year.