A breaking investigation by Animal Equality is exposing conditions at a pig breeding facility in Kansas, USA.

Between 2024 and 2025, investigators documented pigs trapped in tiny metal cages, unable to turn or take more than a step for most of their lives.

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Transcript (English — en)

This is confinement.
Pigs foaming at the mouth.
Skin splitting open on metal bars.
Dead piglets
rotting at their mothers’ feet.
Across the U.S., millions of pregnant
pigs are locked in cages so small,
they can’t turn around.
Not for minutes.
Not for hours.
For months.
Animal Equality investigators
went undercover
to expose this farming practice.
This is a Kansas pig farm is tied to brands
you’ve seen in your grocery store.
Over a thousand mother pigs live
in a single barn, lined up side by side.
They spend their entire lives
standing up, lying down
and chewing the bars
from extreme stress.
Each pregnancy lasts nearly four months.
She can’t turn. Can’t stretch.
Can’t move more than a step.
Weeks after giving birth,
she is sent back to the cage.
The cycle continues, causing many
to suffer from birth-related injuries.
When her tired body no longer produces
enough piglets for the industry to profit from,
she’s slaughtered.
Her body grows.
The crate doesn’t.
The metal cuts into
her skin and causes sores.
She risks infection as she lies
on feces-covered floors.
Many don’t fit within the bars, so they
wedge their heads under the cage doors.
There is nothing to do.
Nothing to occupy her mind.
Many stare at the walls for weeks.
Some climb the bars, agitated
as they desperately paw at the air.
Others give birth early
locked in their crates.
They can’t turn to see
their premature piglets,
who often die on the cold concrete
within an hour.
Mother pigs are left to die
from injury and illness, too.
This injured pig was shot.
Left to bleed in a pen.
The others could not look away.
Here, another nudges and sniffs
a dead pig.
Some give up.
But all end up in corporate supply chains.
Ahold Delhaize, the
parent company of Stop & Shop,
Giant, and Food Lion,
is linked to this cruelty.
Over a decade ago, they pledged to stop
confining pigs in cruel cages.
That promise has been delayed
again by three more years.
Animals need action NOW.
Tell Ahold Delhaize
and its brands to eliminate these cages
from their supply chains.
The system is failing pigs, intelligent,
social animals who feel joy
and suffering like the
companion animals we love.
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Reduce demand for these cages.
Take your support away
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