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As they grow the crate opens wider and before long everyone is free to wander.įarrowing crates are a necessity. The farrowing crate, which is more of a big fork, protects the babies. She can kill her entire litter by laying on top of them. A fully grown sow is a large animal weighing hundreds of pounds. These crates protect newborn piglets from their mothers. These are the crates people think about when thinking about animal welfare. This is a tricky time and gestation crates improve the likelihood of success by keeping the sow stationary and undisturbed. There is a window of time after AI when the fertilized egg implants in the uterus wall. Gestation crates are used during and after artificial insemination. On the matter of crates, there are two crating systems and they get confused. My annoyance is equating egregious animal abuse with gestation crates saying that placing a sow in a crate is the same as beating her with a metal rod. There are going to be incidents of animal cruelty. David often talks on other podcasts about defining whole groups by the outliers. On the other hand, characterizing all the animal agriculture industry as knowingly and consistently subjecting animals to cruelty makes me defensive. If arguing we shouldn’t be cruel to animals, then I’m on board. Over the years I’ve learned that bacon is more powerful than the vegetarian and vegan movements, so I don’t lose sleep over that part, but still, I remain suspicious.Īnyway, I listened and came out in relative calm. Rather, it is the first step in the real goal of ending animal agriculture entirely. I’m still suspect that their goal is merely humane treatment of animals. There have been times in my career I would have labeled the guests as existential enemies bent on ending my career. My entire adult life is made possible by the raising and slaughtering of pigs.Īt present, I work in California as director of quality and process control for two plants making millions of pounds of salami (made from pork). For a couple years, I had responsibility for on the farm programs for group housing sows and antibiotic free pork programs. For 13 of those years, I oversaw food safety and quality in pork slaughter facilities in California, Nebraska, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. I have spent 22 years in the food business, the BIG food business to be precise. So, I’m late listening and now late to comment. I’m usually listening within a day or two of a release, but I was hesitant to go into this one. It took me awhile to get to this podcast.
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