The castration without local anesthetics – for animal rights activists purposes
The piglets aged only a few days when they are caught by the pig-breeders. They try to run away but the experienced
human hands get them quickly. That they fearfully cry for help doesn’t let them off the hook in the industrial husbandry.
One person holds the piglet so that it isn’t able to defend itself. It freaks out of panic as it is turned on it’s back – an absolut unnatural
position for pigs. However, all the crying is unhelpful. The head is locked under the alar of the henchman, the legs are cliped and streched upwards.
Thereby the piglet’s abdomen is uncovered.
Mothter-sow, not able to help their children
The mother is witnessing the whole procedure, hears the painful panic-crys of her children, wants to help them; separated, a blank steel-cage bonds her on the ground. She is affixed. Cannot turn around. Often she cannot see what is happening to her children. She is frightened. Her mouth is foaming. The eyes wide open of panic. But she cannot help her children.
A second person is now cutting the piglet’s body open with a scalpel – without any anaesthetisation – and presses out the testicles. These will be cut off and the wound will be desinfected. The piglet is placed back into the box with sattled floor or made out of blank concrete.
Yet follows the next one. Mass processing in the mass production.
Routine – fast cuts – only to avoid the flesh from tasting like boar.
A piglet gets castrated
250.000 times a day this happens only in the EU. Calculative three piglets a second get cut off and castrated without any anaesthetisation.
Around the clock. The academic caucus of the EU-Commission for animal health and animal rights has already testified in a report 2004 that the affected piglets suffer from enormous pain during the castration. Not yet enough, the piglets are suffering a long time after this procedure. That’s why this form of disfigurement is very disputed even by politicians.
Over 91 billion male piglets a year are treated in the EU not only by castration. In most of the plants it is usual to grind off the teeth of both sexes as well as arresting the tails of the baby-pigs. Both are extreme painful and traumatizing procedures. According to the livestock industry just for the good of the pigs. That sounds mockery as it certain for experts that harming each other is caused by stress from inadequate and crowded husbandry.
