Animal farmers don’t care about animals.

Animal farmers will always tell us that the wellbeing of the animals on their farms is their number one priority, an obviously audacious and ironic claim considering their industry revolves around profiting off of the exploitation and ultimate deaths of these animals.

However, just in case we needed another example of how the animals will always be considered as far less important to farmers than profit, pigs farmers in the US are currently attempting to have a vote overturned that has made it illegal for pig flesh being produced or sold in the state of California to come from farms that use gestation crates.

Gestation crates are cages that are so small that the mother pigs trapped inside of them cannot even turn around. Horrifically, the farmers keep the pigs in these crates for sixteen weeks at a time, every time they impregnate them. So why would the farmers be against these cages no longer being used, after all, they tell us that the wellbeing of their animals is their number one priority?

Well, it’s because it will cost them more money to farm pigs without these cages. In other words, they want to continue confining these highly intelligent and sentient animals in cages so small that they can only stand up and lie down for nearly four months, simply because they can make more money doing so.

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