Pork Farming Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2011
- Farmers showcase how they care for the pigs they raise and discuss how technology has positively changed the ways animals are born and raised on farms today.
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This is like been kept on a bus your entire life, most of the time you have to seat in your seat but your allowed walk up and down the aisles sometimes and the bus driver gives you food & water. Would you consider that a good life? If I captured you and put you through this for 3 years or so, would you find it acceptable?
I too am from Indiana and have ALWAYS been interested how Pig farming was done, Thank you for posting this. Very Excellent operation and VERY Well done.
I love pigs, which is why I decided to lock them inside this barn like prisoners and sell the bounty of their bodily functions on the open market.
very inspiring for those who havea small pig farm
I just want to thank the American Farmer for there safe and health food they supply my family everyday. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable that that farmer justifies small stalls.
Good commercial facility, for the limited of time they will be there. They really keep them comfortable and well fed.
I really wish people would educate themselves more before they form such a strong negative opinion about animal production. There is a reason behind everything that goes on in these places; the dams are kept in a small space so they won't sit on and crush their piglets (it can happen), and if all the animals were to roam freely, there's no telling what kind of trouble they'd get in. It's just more efficient this way.
Thanks for the information, Tim.
Nice video but the piglets are crowded together which is why they've all had their tails amputated. In crowded conditions they mutilate each other's tails. Yes they need food, water and climate as the man said. But they also need space and mental stimulation.
They cut the tails short when they are young so as they grow in pens other pigs can't chew on their tails. They get major infections that cause them much more pain and suffering than having their tails cut right after they are born does. There are also limits to how many pigs can be put in pens, as you would imagine the more that are put in a pen the more fighting and competition for feed there is. Farmers stick with the limit or under the limit not only for the animals safety but also there is nothing economical about cramming too many animals together when it results in injury or sickness. The open stall system here is a really good solution to all of that.
My pig's love being outside if they get hot they jump in mud puddles if they get cold they lay together in hay in my barn. they don't need any hormones or antibiotic's used or ever needed altho I have used antibiotics on my cow who stepped on a rusty nail and that was once and only one treatment,
you really know a corporate guy trying to do farming.. hehe
Happy?? Hmm that doesn't look like an environment a pig would like to be in to me, they should be at least able to go outside. Pigs are social animals and should be able to interact.
+jay decker how? In the usual way....by understanding they are with other pigs and interacting with them in pig like ways. You understand what a social animal is right?
+jay decker and you call me retarded lol
+jay decker lol I didn't think you would know. Don't worry you'll learn as you get older
Don't forget the 4th basic thing sir, ROOM TO MOVE! 1.47
I really like the fact that you are using the European free access stalls. Get more of those!! they are great.
Great work
I got a vegan, onetime as a roommate when I was working in other state. And I see him, eat so much vegan food and he exercise a lot. The food he eats, could feed 2 people. I said why you don't eat meat, he said he got problem with his blood pressure. Look at me I am dietician, I eat all food. I eat light in the morning and afternoon, eat slight snack during 2 breaks a day, eat anything at dinner. I eat any meat, including pork, beef, lamb , chicken. I usually grilled or barbecue them to let fats drip away. From 210 lbs I am now 170, from 90 over 140/160 blood pressure , I am now 80 over 120 , now normal.
the animals you eat ate so much food that could feed so many people instade.
All of you need to realize the benefits of being a farmer and how WE farmers sacrifice our lives and our own money to provide for YOU. As an FFA member, i strongly believe that at the end of the day, none of you will complain about the food we have provided for you for all your fancy dinners and lunches. We are the ones who support modern technology and 1 in 7 jobs are Ag based, so just fyi
I think these stalls are much better than the locked up farrowing stalls. The animals should have the choice to move aroubd if they want.
search Lucent and dominion and you will see behind the scenes
These pigs look like some good ribs and BBQ
I am mostly seeing in this video the outside of these industrial barns. When you do see the pigs, it's a very short take but even then it's pretty appalling how tiny the space they have to live in.
This model is a definite major upgrade to what is prevalent among large overcrowded farms. Is this a prototype? I can see room in the design to provide wallows for them. The pigs could be enabled to let themselves in and out or they could be led in and out. Is that a planned use of the court yards between the buildings?
stick that guy in one of those stalls for his entire life and see how 'comfortable and secure' he feels.
Jason Kinnear Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
I was just about to say the same thing. I love how they try to justify this
They care for the animals all the way to the $laughterhou$e!
You are welcome, I should say I'm not a big factory farmer I only raise a few pigs a year, and they are on pasture their whole lives, So don't think I'm trying to defend factory farms in anyway.
Hogs don't normally eat corn. They as herbivores, eat grass and greens.
You fell in love with the pig.That's hard to believe. It's not up to me defend and explain my compassion. "It's up to you to defend and explain your lack of it." Debbie
Debbie Nelson Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
In going into commercial pig farming here in Africa and am wondering if someone can help me. Can I feed them exclusively on corn and nothing else
Obviously will give them medicines and stuff. Thanks
I always said every critter likes a mixed diet! One basic feed ( the equivelent in my opinion to protein pills and dehydraited products) bores the pigs! Also choosing between protein pellets or a big juicy worm, is like us choosing between a tender steak and a protein pill! The protein pill may be more nutrisous for us but we choose the steak!
I am a big supporter of the small farm movement but I also believe it's wrong to demonize these farmers. Often their situation is that to start up the operation (which they're honestly passionate about) they need to invest a lot of money into building the structures and all of the technology. Do you know how in DEBT these farmers are? It's no wonder they resort to having high denisty pig farms. If the corporations they worked for didn't charge them so much money and CONTROL the regulations on pig farming, we would see a lot less of this. A lot of you people assume that this farmer HATES his animals, when really, he probably loves pigs. I shouldn't speak for him directly, but if he had the choice to make the same profit from small scale farming high quality pigs then I think he would do it. He'd get a lot more sunshine and he wouldn't have to cause animal suffering.
I would also like to suggest that perhaps he was not given much of a choice to make this video, given that he is educated. He looks like a very decent spokesperson for pork.
Elizabeth-- "big supporter of the small farm movement"-- well I AM one of those, yep been doing it for over 30 years, started long before it was popular!- IT IS CHEAPER to start a grass fed humanely pastured pig operation than the hoop-la this factory has!-- start with a run-in shed * close 3/4 of the opening so there is a wide door for animals to come and go as they want- electric fencing is SUPER cheap these days, whether you use the white tape (cheapest and very effective) or the move-able pre-fab stuff, (use AC only for pre- fab)-- also you will get about 2-3x MORE money for the humanely. pastured pork so you are wrong on every end here--
You sound like you might have been a wanta be farmer at least once upon a time-- keep it simple & you will see how this guy does not deserve your defending him, while I agree he likely does have a "love" for his pigs, he is ignorant and needs to farm humanely...your defending him will only make the hell for the pigs go on & the pork eaters not get the best.
if you loved the pig you wouldn't torture it every second of its life. they need to move, walk, exercise, go outside. they need to move.
What sponser do you trust, interestingest's?
Everyone sponsors something?
why cant it be like this on all factory farms? the world would be a better place if they did this.
How do animal rights activists get film footage like these?
pigabuse.mercyforanimals.org/
www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/pigs/
And how do you refute these?
A truely happy pig is free outside
in mud
domesticated pigs are not violent .. those are wild boars or feral pigs
Il montrent simplement ce qu'ils veulent montrés....
Does anyone know what happens to a piglet if the mom is not properly separated from her piglets?.... More then likely that 250 lb hog will squash and suffocate her young, and that is not even the worse that can happen. If not feed properly (if they were aka set free) she would probably eat her young... Be careful what you wish for.
delaney schlake finally some one that knows a little bit about pig's
my home-raising pigs experiment was a total disaster....I put them in a pig-tractor, moved it around over fresh grass once a week, but they were locked up and stood in wet mud puddles the whole summer. Then they froze in the fall.... extremely expensive too....nowhere dry to sleep....pigs need a large meadow and an electric fence, plus dry insulated housing...electric fence dangerous for pet dogs....problem after problem..
Electric fence is fine with dogs. My dogs dont bother it, and neither do my friends dogs touch his electric fence. Each day i go to tend the pigs i grab the electric fence and test it to be sure it is still active. Electric fence is a psychological barrier, it is not a dangerous thing.
What about the outdoors? All the pigs I've been around enjoy being outdoors. These poor animals don't count, I guess.
ok but you who criticize putting animals in doors have never raised pigs outdoors. Raising pigs outside is nice and picture perfect on a nice spring or fall day, but in the heat of the summer and the pigs are dying because they cant cool themselves, or in the 30 degree below zero wind chills and they freeze to death. Or when the mud becomes so deep they cant walk.?? Weather can make it impossible to care for your animals when they are outside. In a barn the animals recive much better care.
Are these pigs castrated without anesthesia as piglets? Is that still a common practice? And why do they need the ear stickers? For identification? And what about slaughter? How much pain is there involved?
Surely there must be a way to design all painful interventions out of such systems? Or breed animals to feel less pain?
now lets see them get slaughtered did yall put that part in there?
Let me come there with my camera's and let me film for 2 days, and lets see if they are cared for like you say.
Darrel Lee Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
Also Confinement barns are much better for the environment. The manure is collected and spread when feild conditions are safe. Not every time it rains and the manure runs down the creek as would happen with pigs on an outside lot.
I have an old barn with an outdoor concrete lot I use for finishing hogs. The way the concrete was laid out, alot of water not from the lot itself goes through a portion of it, and goes off a retaining wall like a waterfall. I dug a shallow "lagoon" to catch most of the solids that I periodically clean out during times of the year when its very dry, and use a fence that has old hog flooring to let the rest seep through. Then, I have tall vegetation acting as a little wetland/catch area, and there is a hayfield for a few hundred yards before it hits a creek. The amount of actual manure getting to the creek would be 0, and I would assume very little of the nutrients, the hay ground can pick it up and use it. Now, a place I used to live at, with cattle I helped raise, had a runoff point from the lot where it was a pretty steep grade towards the creek for alot of it, and it was closer. THAT was bad, there should be a lagoon installed down the hill.
All the people bitching in the comments about this is bad let them Rome free. Well I would like to see you farm for a month you most likely wouldn't be able to handle it
may i have a job in your farm ? i am from Nepal?
and straw ??
actually this is good. using the pigs processed waste as fertilizer for the crops. and then the crops in turn is used to feed the pigs. animal waste is used quite often as fertilizers thou , may seem disgusting , but i think its fairly common.Just dont go thinking about it when u eat ! =)
Well Pain is half discomfort and half fear. The Screams and Struggling begin the moment you pick a pigglet up and have nothing to do with pain, its all about fear. The scream and struggling end as soon as you put the pigglet back in the pen with its mother dispite the fact that it now should be in pain. I'm not trying to down play anything i'm just tring let you know if done right, its fast an not the torture that some people make it out to be.
This dude really said we keep them inside to keep them from bad weather we’ll make a opening so the can go inside and out and maybe a door if and wolf get over the fence
you fell in love with the pig??? and you do this??? you are completely insane
tania bjornlie Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
@@RossMac023 I gotta agree with Tania. It's TRUE, he fell "in love" with a pig and now he his "taking care" of them to just be killed. Personally I dont even like bacon. I have a 3 month old baby pig and he is just adorable, that dude says he "fell in love" with a pig...no I fell in love with my pet pig (his name is Pumbaa) and he love snuggles and now I want to be a vet NOT a pig killing creature.
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Really... you raise the pigs in barns to keep them out of bad weather. Haha! This farm does seems better than most factory farms however.
you must have interesting dreams
What about the sadists who work at these places and abuse the pigs?
He's just sugarcoating everything. They should wait until the pigs are at least a year old until they breed them. They should have the option to be indoors AND outdoors I know thefarm I work at waits until any animals are matured and grown until you breed them.
I don't think he said anywhere that the animals are bred before age one. He said weaned sows show signs of estrus a few days after weaning. Sows have already had a litter, gilts are younger females that haven't yet. Most farmers that include breeding in their operation wait for gilts to have a few heats before breeding them. There is no point in waiting until they are one but most probably get bred close to one as there is no benefit of breeding an animal that is not ready to have a litter. The reason why most pigs are not outdoors is because of the various diseases they can catch like PRRS and PED that kill the piglets and cause the older animals to become very sick. Even entering a pig farm these days one usually must shower in and out to try and protect the pigs health. I'm sure most people have heard about all the bad farmers out there, but honestly there really are more good farmers than bad. The good farmers out there truly love their animals and love raising them. At the end of the day though everyone needs to understand the animals purpose. If they are raised for meat, or to breed then that needs to happen because farmers have bills to pay. It still remains the farmers responsibility to give these animals a good life without compromising the ability to pay their bills and feed the world. It is quite the balancing act, and I think this guy has done a great job at keeping them healthy safe and comfortable!
@Ed3891 Animals aren't people. If the pigs were miserable, they would get stressed and sick. If the pigs are healthy and stress free, then how can it be cruel? Just because it makes you feel sad? That is a silly thing to determine cruelty by. Look at how the pigs choose to be in the secure stall versus wandering free.
You complainers are total fools. I grew up on a ranch/farm. These animals are not pets, and they are cared for. We could play with them tease them but in the end they were food. I remember grampa bought a sheep, we all ran to him, yelling Billy, Billy - (Billy, Billy get out of here this is food, stay away from him.)
They're not food though, they're friendly living beings and deserve a happy healthy life rather than a miserable life then premature brutal slaughter
2:04 How can one find this justified? Personally I can't see how the farmer can consider these animals been taking care of, if such small places are their homes. The assumption is that once they're not been physically attacked or harmed, then it is not cruel. But pigs are very developed animals with substantial capacities to feel pain and to feel bored from such repetitive, small and unnatural conditions. Put it this way, would you not consider keeping a pet dog in a cage like that be cruel?
If you want to eat USA industrialized meat, go for it. There are multitudes of reasons on either side to support or not. For me, I don't choose to eat meat unless unless it was pasture raised by my brother or a close friend. That way, I know they had a good life. Industrialized farming of animals is inhumane, no matter how they try to spin it.
Terrible life did you see those pigs yes they are in pins, but are there with other pigs running and jumping around. They dont pump them full of unlimited amount antibiotics it would be too costly. Besides these pigs reach market weight at 265lb which is not that long.
Some of those family raised farms also pin their pigs but just happen to be outside. They just dont have the whole farm to run around in. Ive had sows and I kept mine in a small pasture and found her in her bed 95% of the time
As factory farms go, this is probably a decent one. But it is a factory. Since when are sow stalls "traditional"?
Anesthesia is dangerous and expensive to much given to a piglet would be lethal. As for the pain that the piglet goes through is very small when done right. Two quick pinches witha pair of snips and a squeeze, a tug and its all over, a dab of Iodine and back in the pen with momma. 1 minute of Stress verus how long for the anesthesia to take hold and ware off.
I blame PETA for all of these hippies commenting on the video. We're not the top of the food chain for nothing.
Cant they let the pigs outside they are not supposed to be locked up all the time
When ever they hold a piglet their shirts have blood spots on them, @5:10 the piglet looks like its bleeding from its mouth.. I don't like this at all..
JES THEY GOT COLD SO THAT STARTED FACTORY FARMING
Pity the poor animal who is unlucky enough to be born into a factory farm.
If you said the sow stay 99% of their time inside the free access stall, why invest on the free access stall?
Factory farming
So let me get this straight, the pig can leave the safety of the cage only so that it goes into a small area where there might be another pissed off pig...lol, no wonder they don't ever leave the cages. Its not for them its reassurance for other people who don't know jack. I'm glad burger king is changing their cage-less policies i just hope other companies follow suit.
No. I don't accept this as acceptable and I don't fall for the okey-doke. This is NOT ok for the pigs. "We thought it we'd take them out of the rain and inclement weather"?? Are you kidding me? Yeah, so it's easier to feed and innoculate them you mean. No, they can take care of themselves outdoors just fine, thank you. I see those pigs-hogs to you-chomping on the crates to get out. I see the hard floors they're 'playing around' on. No, this is not respectful and not fair to them.I don't buy it!
Pigs are not Herbivores that are Omnivores the will eat anything they find. Except Citrus they don't seem to like Oranges and Corn is just the seeds of a type of grass so you need to re-think your comment.
How he like it to live in a small cage all his life?
erik bakker Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
@ARoomWithAMoose989 These pigs have a weak immune system. They where bred to survive factory farming. Pigs of the old days wouldn't survive the stress! These pigs are not good at being outdoors because they have been bred to work best indoors! Why, who knows?
I suspect you are downplaying the pain. I have seen footage with screams and struggling. It is not credible that any of us would accept the pain on order to get the product.
But maybe might makes right, they clearly are in no position to defend themselves or retaliate.
Bernd Mara Shut the fuck up and eat some bacon bitch!!!
I feel bad for them porkers, but I cannot lie to myself, pork meat is so good. Yummy!!!!!
Just buy meat from a good free range farm. Pay a bit more money for the better more ethically farmed meat... I would rather pay more money and know the animals had a good life than pay pennies for some tortured animal meat.
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All lives matter. Go for plant based food.
I agree that it isint gonna change because of the demand, but this guy is lying during all of the vid the pig whould be WAY happyer outdoor ect....
Disgusting, leave these curious, social animals alone, in peace, enjoying freedom and life
Whoever ur name is i will not pay u a cent or dollar for your product n hypocracy, even if u were the last farm, may all ur years torturing these helpless creatures be uncurable sickness to u n those working for u
Who fucking cares if you don't buy it. You are just one person.
how are they being torturing there taking good care of them
How does this man live with himself knowing he is raising these noble creatures to kill for money. One day I hope to Lord makes things right.
Animal hell
They enjoy being in those fucking cages?
WTF
0:50 disgusting
WTF is this guy talking about?! I don't even know where to START! "These are very HEALTHY ANIMALS, and these animals are bringing SAFE FOOD to our nation." FALSE. Please. Animals cramped in cages are not healthy animals. Food with an unlimited amount of antibiotics is not SAFE FOOD. "I fell in love with the pig." Oh, really? Then why are you keeping them in cramped conditions and killing them after leading a short and terrible life?
SUPPORT FAMILY-RAISED FARMS WHERE ANIMALS ARE TREATED RIGHT!!!!
What a bunch of crap. Look who sponsors this video.
6:14 this is horrible! How would you like to "live" in one of these disgusting narrow stalls? Animal abusers!
@David VanPattenPeople who hate animal abuse aren't snowflakes. We keep animals humanely, none of our cattle is tied up . Our dad used to keep pigs in large pens and that's how it should be done!
PS: Proverbs 12:10 10The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
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He is just another used car salesman.....disgusting!
Whoever ur name is i will not pay u a cent or dollar for your product n hypocracy, even if u were the last farm, may all ur years torturing these helpless creatures be uncurable sickness to u n those working for u