US pig investigation
US pig investigation

What supermarkets don’t show you about U.S. pig farms


A pig lies motionless in a pen. Another sniffs and nudges her body. Here’s what Animal Equality filmed on a U.S. farm tied to major grocery brands.

She’s just one pig among many—trapped in a holding pen on a Kansas farm.

When she sees her friend collapsed on the floor, she moves closer. Nudges her leg gently.

Nothing.

She nudges again, harder this time. 

Still nothing.

She sniffs along her friend’s legs, then up toward her torso.

As if searching for signs of life. As if trying to bring her friend back. 

But the other pig never moves again.

Dead from injury, illness, or exhaustion, her body is left behind in the group pen.

This was captured by an Animal Equality investigator on a farm linked to Ahold Delhaize–parent company of Stop & Shop, Giant, and Food Lion.

It wasn’t the only death.

Nearby, another mother pig is shot in the head. She collapses. Her body shakes. Blood spreads across the floor.

Other pigs watch. Not by choice, but because they’re locked in gestation crates too small to turn around in.

These cages confine mother pigs for their entire pregnancies. 

It’s like being trapped in an airplane seat… for months.

Animal Equality is fighting back with investigations, corporate pressure, and global protests.

But none of it happens without monthly supporters.

Will you be one of them?

You can end this cruelty! Please sign our petition calling for ending factory farming in the United States.

And if you still see that pig—nudging her friend, refusing to give up–

Remember: choosing plant-based is one way to fight back every day.

Let your plate reflect your principles. Reject cruelty at its source. 

Stand with the pigs who can’t stand at all.

Until every cage is empty, 

Face,Forehead,Cheek,Lip,Dress shirt,Jaw

Sean Thomas

International Director of Investigations


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