Appalling Conditions For Pigs
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The horrific conditions that many pigs and piglets are forced to live in; is enough to put many people off the thought of eating pork. MPs are now demanding that all pork products should be labelled to inform people of where the pork came from and thereby what conditions that they lived in.
For many years, Britain has had a ban in place, ensuring that the living conditions of pigs are decent, and that they are not allowed to be stored away in cramped conditions. Almost seventy percent of all pork products however are imported every year, meaning that most of the pork that we eat is from pigs that have had a horrific existence. For many of these poor creatures, their existence consists of being locked in a cramped room being fattened up for slaughter and never once seeing any daylight. For many people this thought will be enough to ensure that they only buy British pork products, where you can safely know that the pigs have had a decent life leading up to their slaughter. The new food labels would include information such as the country where the pork originated, and how they were reared.