*[Enwl-eng] These mama animals are locked in metal coffins until they give birth

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Lady pigs are forcibly impregnated and locked into tiny, inescapable metal 
cages for months.






            Smithfield Foods said they would improve their pigs' lives. But 
after everyone looked away, the cruelty continued

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                 The tight-fitting metal cage suddenly surrounds you. Your 
heart starts to race as your mind turns fuzzy and blank, realizing there is 
no escape. This feeling is panicked desperation. And it's what piggie 
mamas-to-be experience every day in factory farms as they're stuffed into 
gestation crates, where they're locked for months on end. Gestation crates 
are extremely small cages used to confine pregnant pigs until they give 
birth to a new litter of baby piglets. At that point, the babies are torn 
away — and then the mama is forcibly re-impregnated and thrust back back 
into her cruel, inescapable coffin of a cage. The average sow is forced to 
breed offspring for slaughter five to seven different times before the 
industry is done with her.

                  While locked in these enclosures, the mamas watch 
helplessly as their excrement piles up around their legs, unable to move or 
turn around. They can barely even stand up or sit down. Of all the pigs 
raised for pork in the U.S., 95% come from factory farms, where these types 
of torturous Medieval enclosures aren't the exception — they're the rule. 
Numerous companies, including Smithfield Foods, have tried to fool consumers 
by pledging to phase out the use of gestation crates. But now, over five 
years after their initial promise, nothing has changed. Smithfield Foods, 
Inc. is the largest producer of pork both in the U.S. and also in the world, 
murdering nearly 30 million pigs every single year. It's time for them to 
realize we're watching, and that we demand they follow through on their 
promises. Sign the petition telling giant factory farming corporation 
Smithfield Foods, Inc. to finally end its use of all gestation crates! Sign 
the petition.

                  Thank you for all that you do,

                         Miranda
                        The Care2 Petitions Team



                  P.S. The traumatic cruelty of gestation crates can't be 
overstated. It's time for Smithfield Foods to fulfil its promise and remove 
all gestation crates from its facilities now.








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Subject: These mama animals are locked in metal coffins until they give 
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