Shocking Practices Pigs Endure on Factory Farms

Natalie Alms

August 14, 2023 Updated: January 20, 2025

Discover the cruelty uncovered by Animal Equality's global investigations.

Through its global investigations, Animal Equality has uncovered the abuse of pigs, both through ‘legal’ farming practices and at the hands of workers.

2022:

Animal Equality investigates the cruel journey of animals, including pigs, during transport to farms and slaughterhouses in Mexico

Animal Equality conducts a follow-up investigation from 2019 at a pig farm located in Northern Italy, which is part of a supply chain that produces “high-quality” food products

Animal Equality investigates a pig farm in Mexico

2021:

Animal Equality investigates a pig farm in Lombardy, Italy, affiliated with the Bompieri Group, whose products are known through a marketing slogan to be the “Excellence of Made in Italy”

Animal Equality investigates Rastro Municipal Regional in Tizayuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

Animal Equality investigates the P&G Sleigh Pig Unit in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Animal Equality investigates Zema Srl slaughterhouse located in the province of Cremona in Italy

Animal Equality investigates pig farms in Catalonia, Spain

Animal Equality investigates the cruelty of pig farms in hopes to eliminate cages in the European Union

2020:

Animal Equality and Italian journalist Roberta Spinelli visit a pig farm in Brescia, Italy

Animal Equality Investigates a Pig Farm in Brazil

2019:

Animal Equality investigates a pig farm in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy between February and April 2019

Animal Equality investigates an Italian slaughterhouse in Lombardy, Italy that claims to produce high-quality products

Actress and animal rights advocate Rooney Mara collaborates with Animal Equality on an undercover investigation titled “With My Own Eyes” inside two US factory farms—one housing mother pigs used for breeding

2018:

Animal Equality investigates Fir Tree Pig Farm in Lincolnshire, England, during April and May 2018

Animal Equality investigates two farms located in the provinces of Cuneo and Mantua in Italy

Animal Equality investigates a pig farm endorsed by the Red Tractor certification in the UK

Animal Equality investigates Fir Tree Farm, owned by Elsham Linc, a major pig producer in the UK

2017:

Animal Equality investigates government-owned slaughterhouses in the Mexican state of Jalisco

Animal Equality investigates British pig farms in the UK during September and October 2017

2016:

Animal Equality investigates government-owned slaughterhouses in Mexico

Animal Equality investigates Granja Escobar in Spain

Animal Equality investigates three selected UK pig farms from January to May 2016

2014:

Animal Equality investigates Spanish pig farms and slaughterhouses from August 2007 to May 2010

2012:

Animal Equality investigates the East Anglian Pig Company in the UK

Animal Equality investigates the El Escobar Farm in Fuente Alamo, Murcia, Spain

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