Factory farmed pigs - the facts - Roughly 9 million pigs are
slaughtered every year in the UK - about 1.5% of UK pigs are
organic. - 98% of UK pigs are fattened (finished) in sheds. 93%
of growing pigs and 60% of mother pigs in the UK are kept
indoors. - Approximately 80% of UK pigs have their tails cut off
(bored and unhappy pigs shut up in sheds will bite the tails of
the pigs they are confined with). - Around 55% of sows in the UK
give birth while confined in crates, which they remain in until
their litter is weaned. At least 35% of pigs reared for meat in
the UK are kept in barren systems without any straw bedding. -
The largest existing pig factory in the UK that we know about
has 1,100 sows. - The average size of large-scale intensive pig
farms in the UK is around 500–900 sows. The average pig herd
size for all farms in the UK is around 75 sows. - Approximately
92% of pigs are kept on 1,400 pig farms and the rest on some
10,000 small holdings and smaller and mixed farms. Threat to
animal welfare The fut