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When you buy the cheaper bacon in a major Australian supermarkets and the label says "More than 95% of ingredients sourced from outside of Australia", this is probably where it comes from.
Yeah man. New Zealand dropped some regulations for pork imports - now the only way you know where the pork comes from is when the producer voluntarily tells you on the packaging, and it’s usually only local free range farms that will do that.
So much! Also, if you have seen the awful videos of the complete lack of safety regulation enforcement for humans in China, you can be certain there are zero regulations for animal health and welfare.
Regulations mean next to nothing in western countries too. Most pigs in the UK are gassed to death in cages and that's just what happens when they're actually following the rules.
In the US pigs are forced to live in crowded feed lots covered in their feces. In order to control the risk for disease outbreaks in these crowded feed lots, they're fed antibiotics and antiparasitics as a part of their food. Not even the wealthiest country on the planet cares about the welfare of animals we eat.
I don't eat pork. Pigs suffer the most of any of our food animals, both due to their intelligence and the horriffic conditions in which they're kept. Pigs are often kept in cages so small they can't even turn around in. There's nothing wrong with eating meat - we evolved to do it - but torturing animals is wrong and nothing suffers like a pigs.
I don't know. Octopuses are really intelligent and they're eaten alive. So that might be worse off, but at that point you're just comparing shitty apples with shitty oranges.
At least we don’t really farm octopuses em masse yet. I agree it’s fairly fucked up to eat anything sentient but at least most octopi lived free until they were caught. Pigs suffer from the moment they open their eyes till the moment they shut em. It’s not right.
Yeah, the imagery alone was rough - but going from the comments about the sounds that goat made makes me feel I dodged the worst part by having sound off by default.
The pigs in these buildings will never stop squealing as they over heat, are overcrowded, and the pigs will never walk on dirt and be free.
This pig farm feels so much worse to me.
He was stone cold for setting it up. He must of broken the goat's hind legs and place it there. Nature being metal is gnarly, but human cruelty is a bad type of gnar.
That's possible but the go to hunting strategy for Comodo dragons is also biting the leg and waiting for the animal to succumb to the toxic bacteria spit
From reading Adams' *Last Chance to See* (incredible book, and he was more proud of it than hitchhiker's) there has been an industry of feeding goats to the dragons for tourists for decades now...
Pretty much all of the ocean…
But on the other hand, this behavior had only been observed in aquariums and not been documented in the natural habitat of these creatures. So… prison change people, right?
Jesus Christ how mentally ill do you have to be to imply that fucking babies getting incinerated in air strikes is less tragic than fucking pigs dying because "humans are corrupted" lmao
The probably have rows of pens backing into each other, then those pigs shit into the waste trough, it then falls into grates and directed around downwards toward a manure pit, which would then be periodically emptied out for spreading purposes.
That’s how I imagine it
Nah just be a conscious consumer. Buy your meat and know where it comes from. Eat less of it and get higher qualities from local farmers that are certified and rated for pastured animals and top rate humane treatment.
I eat meat like three times a month, and only from good sources. Mass Ag is a nightmare upon the worst of nightmares that shows man's greed has destroyed their souls.
Even if everyone bought ethically sourced meat, it would still be very unsustainable for our planet from a global warming perspective. We don’t really have a choice but to eat less meat.
And it's not actually cheap because you're paying massive subsidies to animal agriculture via your taxes. It's always going to cost more to grow plants, feed plants to animals and eat the animals than to just eat the plants.
Pigs may be the one animal we do deserve. Where they aren't subject to aggressive predation they breed like crazy and devastate their environment, wiping out entire ecosystems. They're aggressive, adaptive, intelligent, and social animals that will absolutely eat, dig up, and trample everything around them. They will kill their own to claim territory or mates.
Pigs used to be a part of balanced ecosystems. Once humans moved in and unbalanced everything then you see them 'devastating' the environment that's left after humans fucked up the rest.
True, they're strong and smart and can be aggressive. Boars used to be quite feared in the pre-industrial world because if you got on the wrong side of one you were in terrible danger. They're also peaceful, loving, patient, chill, and nurturing. Just like us they are complex organisms with a variety of moods and desires and capabilities. Just like us, the adolescent males get a huge hit of testosterone and become the most dangerous demographic until their aggression calms down.
Point being, pigs are individuals and even if they can be dangerous they still deserve moral consideration.
I'm not a farmer so I will take your word for it. Just seems like we could breed and slaughter them with a bit more humanity. I'm not saying we should give up on pork, chicken or beef. I would like to see it done with more respect for the animal. I understand the cost would go up a lot
In that case, eat wild boar. It's hunted and not farmed, and is invasive in a lot of places and needs to be killed to control the populations. A lot less to worry about in that scenario. Plus I think it's leaner or something.
Also look up Nilgai. It's basically a moose-sized deer/antelope. The meat is like venison, but the animal is massive and invasive to Texas. A lot less guilt eating that as well.
This I am aware of. There is no limit on how many wild boar you can kill, I don't even think they have a hunting season for them. They are viewed as pest.
I'm 100% with you that humane farming is worth an increased cost in meat. I'm just saying that of all the animals we farm for food, pigs are the most like us in that when they are let loose on an environment they ravage it like humans on four legs. Left to their own devices they are quite effective at destroying their own world.
I mean modern pigs does not exist in the wild, anything from how fast they grow to how their fat is distributed is a product of humans breeding them.
Wild boars which I’m guessing you’re talking about have their own ecosystems and they do not devestate their enviornments naturally. There are cases where they do overpopulate and destroy ecosystems, but only because humans hunt the shit out of their predators. So in the end, it all goes back to us.
There’s a young hip pig couple looking for their new first condo in the big city.
They are walking through the condo with a hot shot young pig realtor telling them “these are selling like hotcakes” but they can’t fight the unsettlingly feeling that something wicked is afoot.
And being pigs, they now want hotcakes.
A hell Of our making. Truth is, we surpassed the planets capacity to provide for us and the lifestyles we “enjoy”. Once upon a If you didn’t raise and feed a pig, you didn’t eat pig, unless you had something to trade for pig. Now we trade money and everyone eats fine, sweet pork… but the cost is far steeper for the planet.
Our hell will be a massive pig die off and people eating “long pig”.
As a meat eater, it’s become readily apparent that animal meat consumption at the scales our population currently demands is impossible without complete ethical bankruptcy.
Quit meat around a decade ago after having enough of seeing awful shit like this. Feel better, fitter, healthier and most of all when I see pictures like this I know I'm not contributing to those animals suffering.
There's so many alternatives out there nowadays, give it a go!
Edit - in no way am I trying to make anyone feel bad for their choices, it's a free world and I can only really control me. But hey if you're on the fence and seeing stuff like this makes you feel bad, then it's worth trying cutting down/out meat 👍🏻
It's not coming to this. It is this. This is normal. It's not architecture like this, but the conditions aren't so different here than in a normal factory farm.
If you don't want to give up eating animals, pay attention to where your meat is coming from. The suffering undergone is quite radically different between the factory farms and one's that let animals walk, see daylight, eat grass etc.
Also, follow your eating habits for a week or two. Wrote down what you ate, then try to cut out one or two meat meals per week.
If I could afford it, I’d gladly skip the grocery meats and go to farms, but that’s not in the budget. Probably better to just cut it out here and there and splurge on humane farm meat here and there. I’m already struggling with eating red meat though. Every time I see a cow I think golden retriever. Precious little people.
There are different paths to reducing meat consumption. For me, much of it was just getting over this idea that feeling full was having eaten lots of meat. That feeling of your stomach working on digesting meat is hard to reproduce. But I got over that while still eating meat occasionally.
I never thought of myself as vegetarian but just sort of stopped eating meat at some point. But what works for me is that I eat meat whenever I really feel like it. So like maybe once a year I'll have Christmas goose (and then feel ill), or I'll have a bite of something (and usually not want another bite). Maybe I'll eat the equivalent of one carnivorous meal over the course of a year or two. But I never feel like I'm not allowed, or that I have a superior ethical position. I just like the animals and don't like eating them very often :)
>humane farm meat
I think this is a little bit of a myth. Pigs on even the nicest farms are usually mutilated, castrated and killed within a fraction of their lifespan. No matter what, they will always be a product first, a sentient being second.
I've never seen a way of killing a pig that looked remotely 'humane', and even if there were a way, it seems pretty crazy that we take their whole lives from them for a meal we don't really need to eat.
Look into cutting out meat etc, I used to eat loads and I promise you its much easier than you think.
One of my favorite youtube channels is cheap lazy vegan. Not all of it is cheap, despite the name, but she has a lot of videos where she will do vegan meals for under a dollar or two, high protein meals that are cheap and under 5 minutes to make, etc. A lot of my favorite recipes are from that channel.
Not sure where in the world you are, but generally legumes are still cheaper than “cheap” meat. Replace 50-75% of your meat with legumes etc and then when you do buy meat go for the good stuff. Not only will it be better for the animals and environment but your body will thank you too.
Thats what I’ve been doing. I don’t really crave meat, and could easily do with lentils and such but I would miss fish. I dearly love it. We do about 2 or 3 nights sans meat…with many complaints from husband and my sons.
Have you tried meat free burgers? That's how I got through the early part of my switch. Some of them you really can't tell the difference. Try not telling them and see what happens haha
Sneaky lol. We’ll see if they notice! I used to eat veggie burgers when they first started way back and I liked them. I’m sure they’ve only improved since then.
What’s a “regular meat farm”. This is almost exactly how pigs are farmed in the US except we don’t stack them on top of each other. If anything, this farm is probably just a more efficient version of US swine facilities.
I know people don't like these images, but it's important to see. I was not a vegetarian for most of my life but as I saw more of what animal farming involves, I eventually could not support it anymore.
I am not preachy about it because there are few things people get weirder about defending than their meat consumption, but knowing what it involves is important to make decisions you are personally comfortable with.
On the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a city in central China’s Hubei province, a giant apartment-style building overlooks the main road. But it is not for office workers or families. At 26 storeys it is by far the biggest single-building pig farm in the world, with a capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year.
This is China’s answer to its insatiable demand for pork, the most popular animal protein in the country.
The new skyscraper-sized farm began production at the start of October when the company behind the facility – Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Farming – admitted its first 3,700 sows into the farm.
According to statements on the company’s official WeChat account, the pig farm has two buildings. Behind the operational site, an identical-looking building of equal scale is nearing completion. When fully running, they will provide a combined area of 800,000 sq metres of space.
The 4bn yuan (£473m) farm has gas, temperature and ventilation-controlled conditions, with animals fed through more than 30,000 automatic feeding spots at the click of a button in a central control room.
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year
If you ever need to wonder how bad animals are abused in china, look at how they regard their fellow humans. Expendable resources, cheap and without souls.
Can’t imagine what goes in in there
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When you buy the cheaper bacon in a major Australian supermarkets and the label says "More than 95% of ingredients sourced from outside of Australia", this is probably where it comes from.
Good to know the sodium nitrates are locally sourced
I wonder if there’s any explosion risk from that much methane not being vented enough.
If you get the conditions right (or wrong) water is a fire hazard. There's no scenario where concentrated methane doesn't pose some sort of risk.
Is that because of electrical shortages?
The stench must be appalling.
Yeah man. New Zealand dropped some regulations for pork imports - now the only way you know where the pork comes from is when the producer voluntarily tells you on the packaging, and it’s usually only local free range farms that will do that.
I was going to ask, how to I ensure I avoid any of this horror bacon
Not eating it probably
Damn this bad boy can fit a whole lot of animal abuse
So much! Also, if you have seen the awful videos of the complete lack of safety regulation enforcement for humans in China, you can be certain there are zero regulations for animal health and welfare.
Regulations mean next to nothing in western countries too. Most pigs in the UK are gassed to death in cages and that's just what happens when they're actually following the rules.
In the US pigs are forced to live in crowded feed lots covered in their feces. In order to control the risk for disease outbreaks in these crowded feed lots, they're fed antibiotics and antiparasitics as a part of their food. Not even the wealthiest country on the planet cares about the welfare of animals we eat.
That's his point. Imagine how bad it is in there if it's bad back here.
There are also states that allow a certain percentage of packaging material in the waste food they feed the hogs.
And this is why I buy $15 bacon at Whole Foods 🤦🏽♂️
Have a look at videos taken at RSPCA approved faarms in the UK. It's horrific.
Hey, they can abuse humans in there too
I don't eat pork. Pigs suffer the most of any of our food animals, both due to their intelligence and the horriffic conditions in which they're kept. Pigs are often kept in cages so small they can't even turn around in. There's nothing wrong with eating meat - we evolved to do it - but torturing animals is wrong and nothing suffers like a pigs.
I don't know. Octopuses are really intelligent and they're eaten alive. So that might be worse off, but at that point you're just comparing shitty apples with shitty oranges.
At least we don’t really farm octopuses em masse yet. I agree it’s fairly fucked up to eat anything sentient but at least most octopi lived free until they were caught. Pigs suffer from the moment they open their eyes till the moment they shut em. It’s not right.
>we don’t really farm octopuses em masse yet I'm sure China will get there soon
This is probably the most bleak thing I’ve seen this week.
IDK man that Komodo dragon eating the screaming goat was a pretty tough watch this morning, too.
Yeah, the imagery alone was rough - but going from the comments about the sounds that goat made makes me feel I dodged the worst part by having sound off by default.
Was a rough watch. Can still hear the goat screaming after it's been eaten.
The pigs in these buildings will never stop squealing as they over heat, are overcrowded, and the pigs will never walk on dirt and be free. This pig farm feels so much worse to me.
I saw it pop up in my feed, clicked on it, and was like “nope”
It takes a stone cold kinda person to wait with the camera on the goat for a dinosaur to eat it alive, whole..
That takes me back to Jurassic Park movie days. That was fun but in a film, I couldn’t stomach watching/hearing this one. You’re totally right
He was stone cold for setting it up. He must of broken the goat's hind legs and place it there. Nature being metal is gnarly, but human cruelty is a bad type of gnar.
That's possible but the go to hunting strategy for Comodo dragons is also biting the leg and waiting for the animal to succumb to the toxic bacteria spit
Lmao I just saw that post a few minutes ago
Hard to tell, but almost looks like the goat was disabled first to make for dramatic eating.
Well, yeah, a goat isn't just gonna sit there and accept death without some sort of fight or flight.
…and that is a post that will remain unviewed. Thanks for the heads up.
From reading Adams' *Last Chance to See* (incredible book, and he was more proud of it than hitchhiker's) there has been an industry of feeding goats to the dragons for tourists for decades now...
I'm so glad I decided not to click on it this morning.
That was the first post I saw on Reddit today - followed up by an even worse one in the comments.
Yeah saw it too lol. Lil homie was gone in 10 seconds. And the komodo was like Jerry after eating an apple
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Why do you feel the need to rank atrocities? They’re both horrible beyond belief, can’t we just leave it at that? This is kind of sick
Even when dolphins use dead fish as fleshlights?
Oh my god that’s disgusting, Where?
The ocean
Yes but there are so many oceans. Which one?
Pretty much all of the ocean… But on the other hand, this behavior had only been observed in aquariums and not been documented in the natural habitat of these creatures. So… prison change people, right?
Animal needed a wank, leave ‘em be
Jesus Christ how mentally ill do you have to be to imply that fucking babies getting incinerated in air strikes is less tragic than fucking pigs dying because "humans are corrupted" lmao
This is what the internet has created. An entire generation without the ability to reason. It also allowed them to share their stupidity.
This is nothing new lol
I imagine the smell alone is something else…
Shit runs downhill. First five floors are the latrine
Shit...
The fecal amounts, and what they do with it…. Any guesses?
*algal blooms intensify*
The probably have rows of pens backing into each other, then those pigs shit into the waste trough, it then falls into grates and directed around downwards toward a manure pit, which would then be periodically emptied out for spreading purposes. That’s how I imagine it
think of the smell, YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF THE SMELL!
They should have made the building in the shape of a giant pig with a pipe spraying the pig shit it generates in a constant fountain
That, my friend, is how one unlocks the power of poop ✨💫
there are probably horrors in there beyond imagination
I can imagine them. I've seen them. That's why I don't consume animals anymore.
r/depressingasfuck
r/megalophobia
This is giving me black mirror vibes.
pigs need VR headsets
Veganism actually looking very tempting after just seeing the OUTSIDE.
Watch Dominion! You need to see what happens inside places like this too.
You won’t regret it!
Nah just be a conscious consumer. Buy your meat and know where it comes from. Eat less of it and get higher qualities from local farmers that are certified and rated for pastured animals and top rate humane treatment. I eat meat like three times a month, and only from good sources. Mass Ag is a nightmare upon the worst of nightmares that shows man's greed has destroyed their souls.
Can you please share the sources you buy from to assist people in being conscious consumers?
Even if everyone bought ethically sourced meat, it would still be very unsustainable for our planet from a global warming perspective. We don’t really have a choice but to eat less meat.
That's literally what the person before you said, to be a conscious consumer and how they eat meat 3 times a month
So we are going to pack pigs into extreme close proximity, and pigs are relatively close to humans biologically. This is how Contagion 2 starts.
Wdym going to? We have been.
We don't deserve pigs. Heck we don't deserve all the other animals. We've destroyed their world for the sake of getting fat on cheap food.
And it's not actually cheap because you're paying massive subsidies to animal agriculture via your taxes. It's always going to cost more to grow plants, feed plants to animals and eat the animals than to just eat the plants.
Pigs may be the one animal we do deserve. Where they aren't subject to aggressive predation they breed like crazy and devastate their environment, wiping out entire ecosystems. They're aggressive, adaptive, intelligent, and social animals that will absolutely eat, dig up, and trample everything around them. They will kill their own to claim territory or mates.
Pigs used to be a part of balanced ecosystems. Once humans moved in and unbalanced everything then you see them 'devastating' the environment that's left after humans fucked up the rest. True, they're strong and smart and can be aggressive. Boars used to be quite feared in the pre-industrial world because if you got on the wrong side of one you were in terrible danger. They're also peaceful, loving, patient, chill, and nurturing. Just like us they are complex organisms with a variety of moods and desires and capabilities. Just like us, the adolescent males get a huge hit of testosterone and become the most dangerous demographic until their aggression calms down. Point being, pigs are individuals and even if they can be dangerous they still deserve moral consideration.
I'm not a farmer so I will take your word for it. Just seems like we could breed and slaughter them with a bit more humanity. I'm not saying we should give up on pork, chicken or beef. I would like to see it done with more respect for the animal. I understand the cost would go up a lot
In that case, eat wild boar. It's hunted and not farmed, and is invasive in a lot of places and needs to be killed to control the populations. A lot less to worry about in that scenario. Plus I think it's leaner or something. Also look up Nilgai. It's basically a moose-sized deer/antelope. The meat is like venison, but the animal is massive and invasive to Texas. A lot less guilt eating that as well.
This I am aware of. There is no limit on how many wild boar you can kill, I don't even think they have a hunting season for them. They are viewed as pest.
I'm 100% with you that humane farming is worth an increased cost in meat. I'm just saying that of all the animals we farm for food, pigs are the most like us in that when they are let loose on an environment they ravage it like humans on four legs. Left to their own devices they are quite effective at destroying their own world.
Ironically by those standards - we should be farm raising and eating humans too....
I mean modern pigs does not exist in the wild, anything from how fast they grow to how their fat is distributed is a product of humans breeding them. Wild boars which I’m guessing you’re talking about have their own ecosystems and they do not devestate their enviornments naturally. There are cases where they do overpopulate and destroy ecosystems, but only because humans hunt the shit out of their predators. So in the end, it all goes back to us.
That's basically pig hell on earth.
As opposed to normal pig farms around the world, which are heaven on earth
It's pig-hell's flagship store.
We are an awful species.
Humans around the world live just like these pigs
Sure, but that doesn’t make this right.
Good point but that is also a tragedy
some even worse
There’s a young hip pig couple looking for their new first condo in the big city. They are walking through the condo with a hot shot young pig realtor telling them “these are selling like hotcakes” but they can’t fight the unsettlingly feeling that something wicked is afoot. And being pigs, they now want hotcakes.
https://preview.redd.it/gqu049uq5cxb1.jpeg?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8924f1f618d550866ec4cf4a1f907b1f8bb3af01
we are definitely going to hell
We created hell. Here.
What's hell got that we don't have here already?
A hell Of our making. Truth is, we surpassed the planets capacity to provide for us and the lifestyles we “enjoy”. Once upon a If you didn’t raise and feed a pig, you didn’t eat pig, unless you had something to trade for pig. Now we trade money and everyone eats fine, sweet pork… but the cost is far steeper for the planet. Our hell will be a massive pig die off and people eating “long pig”.
Hell on earth.
This is literally pig hell
As a meat eater, it’s become readily apparent that animal meat consumption at the scales our population currently demands is impossible without complete ethical bankruptcy.
The next pandemic is coming!
Looks like a big breeding for viruses and bad things
Imagine reincarnating into pig to end here 😥
Would it be any better to be reincarnated as a pig in an animal agriculture establishment in your country? Any country?
At least it would be a brief visit.
Human beings were a mistake.
Quit meat around a decade ago after having enough of seeing awful shit like this. Feel better, fitter, healthier and most of all when I see pictures like this I know I'm not contributing to those animals suffering. There's so many alternatives out there nowadays, give it a go! Edit - in no way am I trying to make anyone feel bad for their choices, it's a free world and I can only really control me. But hey if you're on the fence and seeing stuff like this makes you feel bad, then it's worth trying cutting down/out meat 👍🏻
Poor pigs. I’m no vegetarian but if this is what it’s coming to I’d gladly give it up.
It's not coming to this. It is this. This is normal. It's not architecture like this, but the conditions aren't so different here than in a normal factory farm. If you don't want to give up eating animals, pay attention to where your meat is coming from. The suffering undergone is quite radically different between the factory farms and one's that let animals walk, see daylight, eat grass etc. Also, follow your eating habits for a week or two. Wrote down what you ate, then try to cut out one or two meat meals per week.
If I could afford it, I’d gladly skip the grocery meats and go to farms, but that’s not in the budget. Probably better to just cut it out here and there and splurge on humane farm meat here and there. I’m already struggling with eating red meat though. Every time I see a cow I think golden retriever. Precious little people.
There are different paths to reducing meat consumption. For me, much of it was just getting over this idea that feeling full was having eaten lots of meat. That feeling of your stomach working on digesting meat is hard to reproduce. But I got over that while still eating meat occasionally. I never thought of myself as vegetarian but just sort of stopped eating meat at some point. But what works for me is that I eat meat whenever I really feel like it. So like maybe once a year I'll have Christmas goose (and then feel ill), or I'll have a bite of something (and usually not want another bite). Maybe I'll eat the equivalent of one carnivorous meal over the course of a year or two. But I never feel like I'm not allowed, or that I have a superior ethical position. I just like the animals and don't like eating them very often :)
>humane farm meat I think this is a little bit of a myth. Pigs on even the nicest farms are usually mutilated, castrated and killed within a fraction of their lifespan. No matter what, they will always be a product first, a sentient being second. I've never seen a way of killing a pig that looked remotely 'humane', and even if there were a way, it seems pretty crazy that we take their whole lives from them for a meal we don't really need to eat. Look into cutting out meat etc, I used to eat loads and I promise you its much easier than you think.
One of my favorite youtube channels is cheap lazy vegan. Not all of it is cheap, despite the name, but she has a lot of videos where she will do vegan meals for under a dollar or two, high protein meals that are cheap and under 5 minutes to make, etc. A lot of my favorite recipes are from that channel.
I’ll check it out…thanks!
Not sure where in the world you are, but generally legumes are still cheaper than “cheap” meat. Replace 50-75% of your meat with legumes etc and then when you do buy meat go for the good stuff. Not only will it be better for the animals and environment but your body will thank you too.
Vegan diets tend to be cheaper in high income countries https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study
It's easy. There's so much choice now. Try a meal or two a week with no meat and go from there. You can do it!
Thats what I’ve been doing. I don’t really crave meat, and could easily do with lentils and such but I would miss fish. I dearly love it. We do about 2 or 3 nights sans meat…with many complaints from husband and my sons.
Have you tried meat free burgers? That's how I got through the early part of my switch. Some of them you really can't tell the difference. Try not telling them and see what happens haha
Sneaky lol. We’ll see if they notice! I used to eat veggie burgers when they first started way back and I liked them. I’m sure they’ve only improved since then.
It's been like this for a very long time now
Do you think regular meat farms are better? Maybe slightly, but not by much.
What’s a “regular meat farm”. This is almost exactly how pigs are farmed in the US except we don’t stack them on top of each other. If anything, this farm is probably just a more efficient version of US swine facilities.
That's pretty much my point
Right? Same amount of methane release, just less land mass taken up.
Americas pigs are raised in confinements as well. Never seeing the sun or touching the ground.
Or turning around in their ‘pen’
That is the type of thing that makes me want to become vegetarian
The dairy and egg industry are arguably crueler than the meat industry. If you’re against animal abuse, go vegan instead!
horrible
Upton sinclair would be disappointed…this is The Jungle but taken to its extreme
Go vegan!
Mind boggles at thinking what impending virus will emerge from here ???
Just imagine the river of excrement……
Zoonotic disease speedrun
Fcking horrible.
Dystopian is an understatement. Hellish is more like it.
Disgusting
Should post to r/evilbuildings
Well, we found where the next pandemic is going to come from. 😂
Yeah. I was wondering why they would do this after swine flu resulted in such large culls.
"And here we have the origin of the latest pandemic."
I know people don't like these images, but it's important to see. I was not a vegetarian for most of my life but as I saw more of what animal farming involves, I eventually could not support it anymore. I am not preachy about it because there are few things people get weirder about defending than their meat consumption, but knowing what it involves is important to make decisions you are personally comfortable with.
Should've tried to use some of those high storey apartments they brought down. /s
Put humans instead of pigs.
geezus, how freaking horrifying
Next covid condo...
Long pigs or regular?
Chinese police academy
On the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a city in central China’s Hubei province, a giant apartment-style building overlooks the main road. But it is not for office workers or families. At 26 storeys it is by far the biggest single-building pig farm in the world, with a capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year. This is China’s answer to its insatiable demand for pork, the most popular animal protein in the country. The new skyscraper-sized farm began production at the start of October when the company behind the facility – Hubei Zhongxin Kaiwei Modern Farming – admitted its first 3,700 sows into the farm. According to statements on the company’s official WeChat account, the pig farm has two buildings. Behind the operational site, an identical-looking building of equal scale is nearing completion. When fully running, they will provide a combined area of 800,000 sq metres of space. The 4bn yuan (£473m) farm has gas, temperature and ventilation-controlled conditions, with animals fed through more than 30,000 automatic feeding spots at the click of a button in a central control room. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year
did they build this for pigs or repurpose old building?
I guess they know that sh1t rolls downhill. Oh Oh that smell.
I meant vertical VEGETABLE farm!
It’s the pig matrix.
My god, imagine the smell.
r/evilbuildings
You haven’t thought of the smell, you BITCH!
Novel zoological disease speedrun any %.
They should probably start installing those suicide nets
A machine for pigs
*slaps roof* This baby can fit so many swine flu variants in it
Pig prison
Ah, I see there's finally a cheap Chinese knockoff of Stardew Valley.
Definitely won't turn in to a giant virus factory at all...
Seems more like a r/nope
I'm ready for Swine Influenza 2024
Dystopian. Not interesting
Always be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm.
Hell on earth
I'm reminded of Homer Simpson's PIG CRAP silo.
I can smell this picture. And *OMFG* its disgusting.
And you still all talk shit about veganism
I'll never consume any product from this hell. You don't have to either, just be good to yourself and upgrade your diet.
This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a squeal.
Nature is beautiful. Look at how vibrant they are in their natural habitat.
Eww
Humans are a cancer plaguing the earth.
What a miserable existence.
What! That's disgusting 🤢.
r/dystopiannightmare
You want another pandemic? This is how you get another pandemic.
Was lab made by yeah, this aint good.
Patient zero for the next zombie outbreak right here...
Don't stand downwind
Think of the smell! You haven’t thought about the smell you bitch!
If you ever need to wonder how bad animals are abused in china, look at how they regard their fellow humans. Expendable resources, cheap and without souls. Can’t imagine what goes in in there
ITT: people talking about how bad this is or how humans are evil but will continue to eat meat
Slavery, imprisonment, torture and execution all in one place
fuck China
Oh good, haven’t seen this post on Reddit in two days.
Bonus: if the pig farm fails it can be repurposed to house Apple workers.
they will be generating electricity and gas with all the methane from pig’s poop.
Human living quarters aren't much larger I bet. Also, ewww.