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For most pregnant pigs on big factory farms in the U.S., each four-month gestation is spent in a tiny crate. The sows can stand up but can’t turn around or take more than a couple of steps. Slats in ...

According to the Humane Society of the United States, nearly 100 billion land animals are being slaughtered globally each year. The meat-dependent society that we live in today is causing billions of ...

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Pigs have been kept in appalling conditions at a pig farm in the eastern Spanish province of Teruel, said activists who released photos and videos showing animals in agony, or alongside those that are ...