Pigs in the market
Posted: Tuesday 8 February, 2011
I had reason to be at our local livestock market today. While I was there, a load of pigs - cast sows and boars by the look of it - were delivered. These will be sold tomorrow.
They will, therefore, be kept overnight on concrete floors with no bedding other than a skim (and I mean a skim) of shavings. Some of the pens had no water dispensers. The market was freezing. I found this quite distressing. I have no difficulty with animals being slaughtered but this just didn't feel right.
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Cath Livingstone
Thursday 10 February, 2011 at 2:23pm
I agree, it's wrong. Of course, it's impossible to know what those pigs were used to: they might have been reared on concrete, but to give them no water should be criminal. The cold shouldn't be too much of a problem if the pigs were outside reared and there were enough in each pen to huddle together. Giving them some straw would make them a lot more comfortable, though.
We won't sell our pigs through livestock markets, partly because of conditions like this.