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- The severe individual confinement of pregnant sows and mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates.
- The inability to exercise and constant standing or lying on hard floors causes lameness, foot injuries, lesions and weakened bones.
- The docking of piglets' tails, clipping of their teeth, and castration of male piglets without anaesthetic.
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- Causing an animal unnecessary pain and suffering
- Failing to provide adequate exercise
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- 350,000 mother pigs
- 5.7 million piglets each year
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