Pigs are the most miserable animals. Pork is a kind of meat that people often eat. Pigs are omnivorous mammals, mainly divided into domestic pigs and wild boars. According to their fate, pigs have been kept in pigsty all their lives. Let's look at the pig as the most miserable animal and related information.
Pigs are the most miserable animals. First of all, it is no exaggeration to say that sows are breeding machines in pig farms. Generally speaking, each sow produces 23.5 piglets a year, that is, every birth 10 piglets. After two or four births, most sows will be replaced by younger sows. Between each pregnancy,
There is almost no gap period, and farmers will strictly calculate the cycle of sow pregnancy, weaning, empty pregnancy and estrus, for fear of missing a day and delaying the benefits of pig farms. Moreover, artificial insemination is becoming more and more popular in pig farms, which means sows and boars are not really natural. What if there is no natural estrus? Seduce with drugs, stimulate with hormones ...
The sow on the assembly line has never been in love, lived as a husband and wife, or even seen a boar, but has been pregnant and given birth to piglets all her life. Now experts even suggest that if sows and boars meet, it is not a good thing for them, not only there will be the risk of cross-infection of diseases, but also the reproductive efficiency will be reduced. Therefore, the large-scale pig farms now advocate "artificial insemination", and they don't love each other, don't meet each other, and don't miss each other. Most pigs can only keep company with narrow cages and bare concrete ground all their lives. It is really "sad and sad"!
From the perspective of living space, sows spend most of their time in narrow positioning bars and parent-child boxes, unable to walk, or even get up or turn around. And this kind of overloaded production will generally make sows suffer from various diseases such as vaginal or uterine prolapse and claudication, and even directly endanger their lives! Studies have shown that the mortality rate of sows has increased significantly in modern breeding environment.
That's not enough. Nowadays, farmers hope that sows can have more piglets, but they also hope that sows can reduce back fat and make their backs thinner. After the sow does not give birth to piglets, she will contribute her loin. What happens in reality has its own grotesque implication. Poor sow who can't move in a narrow fence can't be too thin or not. ...
Reject suffering and advocate welfare agriculture.
Now it is 202 1 year, with the development of economy and the improvement of pig-raising technology, the innate concept of ecological civilization of people and animals should also be improved. So now more and more animal organizations are actively advocating "welfare farming/animal welfare", calling for giving animals the greatest care, optimizing their living environment and reducing their suffering. So what is welfare agriculture? What are the aspects of animal welfare?
Mr. Zhao Zhonghua, the chief representative of the World Society for the Protection of Animals in China, once said in an activity: "Welfare farming is not so-called free-range and ecological, nor is it for animals to listen to music. Welfare farming refers to avoiding cruelty to animals in the process of raising animals.
To meet the basic living conditions of animals. Welfare farming is a knowledge, which can also be realized in factory farming. Scientific and reasonable animal welfare makes animals healthier and food safer, thus making farms more profitable. It is a win-win choice and must be the direction of aquaculture in the future. "
The five freedoms recommended by the British Farm Animal Welfare Committee for animal welfare are:
1) Free from hunger, thirst and malnutrition-you can drink clean water at any time and eat safe and high-quality feed;
2) Freedom from discomfort-having a suitable environment, including hiding places and comfortable rest places;
3) Freedom from pain, injury and disease-diseases can be quickly prevented, diagnosed and treated;
4) Freedom to behave normally-having enough space, proper facilities and opportunities to be with your partner;
5) Freedom from fear and pain-living in a state without psychological pain.
Referring to the above five freedom regulations, it is obvious that too many benefits of sows have been ruthlessly deprived by human beings. Only the limit fence seriously deprives sows of their freedom of behavior (licking and making out with male sows); Emotional constraints (loneliness, decreased immunity) will directly affect the production and reproductive ability of sows, such as poor meat quality, decreased fetal activity and poor uniformity of piglets, which will affect the slaughter of pigs and thus affect the economic benefits of pig farms.
Welfare farming can improve the happiness of animals and the benefit of pig farms.
Pigs are one of the most intensive farm animals in the world, but most pigs spend their lives in pain, and they have to bear a lot of pain at every stage of their lives, which is very boring. At present, there are still many links in pig breeding in China that do not conform to the concept of "welfare breeding".
For example, the welfare problems related to the piglet stage mainly involve ear tag, tooth cutting, tail cutting, castration, weaning and transportation; The main problems of sow welfare are narrow living space, unreasonable feeding methods, insufficient infrastructure of sow house and bad feeding environment. There are also some problems in the welfare of boars, which leads to the shortening of the utilization cycle of boars. ...
At present, more and more "welfare agriculture" measures have been implemented all over the world, especially in some cases.
For example, the European Union banned the feeding of pregnancy restriction rods several years ago, and Australia, New Zealand and other countries also partially banned the use of pregnancy restriction rods. In 20 18, the European union completely banned castration of boars. Britain has banned the cutting of pigs' teeth and tails, only under special circumstances. Some countries in the European Union, such as Sweden, Norway and Finland, have banned cutting pig tails. Internationally,
Toys, as an animal welfare, have been paid attention to earlier in raising pigs. For example, Britain stipulated more than ten years ago that farmers must ensure that their pigs have toys to play with, otherwise they will be punished by 1000 pounds or imprisoned for three months ... On a global scale, the feeding mode of pregnant sows is changing from individual captivity to group feeding mode.
Some people question whether giving animals welfare farming is equivalent to giving up part of the benefits of pig farms. Is this contradictory to the benefit of pig farms? The answer is of course no!
We can imagine that if pigs live in a leisurely environment and are in a good mood and mental state, their resistance will be stronger, their physical fitness will be better, their motherhood will be better and their growth will be stronger. ...
Farm animal welfare is one of the important supports for the sustainable development of meat production, and the lag of farm animal welfare legislation is one of the reasons why the quality of pork products in China is not fully guaranteed and the quality is not high. Although China also issued the standard of pig welfare breeding on 20 14, the importance of each breeding factory is not very high. With the development of social economy and the improvement of human civilization, animal welfare should be valued by more farms. Even in the future, when the efficiency of pig farms cannot be improved by relying solely on breeding technology, welfare farming may be the best breakthrough!
Pigs are the most tragic animals. 2. The most "tragic" animal on the earth is born to be eaten by people and can't look up at the sky all his life.
There are all kinds of animals on the earth, in fact, human beings should belong to one kind of animals, but human brains are relatively developed and have a perfect language system, so they are called advanced animals. But for other animals, we actually have no right to stipulate their dignity.
When we talk about pigs, some derogatory words may come to mind. Moreover, the pig will give people a very sad feeling, as if it lived in a dirty pigsty from birth, and then it will be slaughtered and eaten when it grows up. The worst animal on earth, born to be eaten by people, can't look up at the sky for a lifetime!
But have you carefully observed this animal? In fact, pigs don't look up. Maybe it can't look up at the sky all its life, or even look back. This statement is not made out of nothing, but has been scientifically verified.
Scientists used to put some food on and behind the pig's head. These hungry pigs actually smelled the food a few days later. But they can't look back, they can't look up, they just keep humming, arching their noses and pursuing the source of fragrance.
Finally, through experiments, it is found that pigs can find food behind them by smell, but they can't eat food on their heads. This is not a strange thing, but because of the pig's body structure. Their cervical vertebrae are straight, and there is no cartilage in the posterior vertebrae.
So the angle of the pig's head should not exceed 20 degrees. In addition, the pig's forehead is very high and its neck is thick and short, so it also affects the pig's head-up angle to some extent. So the pigs we see usually bow their heads or look straight ahead.
It may be that the body structure of pigs is also related to their living habits. They bow their heads to eat every day, so the function of cervical vertebra will begin to change after a long time. So they can't look up at the sky all their lives.
Pigs are the most miserable animals. People must have a deep misunderstanding about pigs? Because most descriptions of pigs are not good, but please don't say that people are as fat as pigs. Pigs are actually very thin. The body fat rate of pigs is between 14%- 18%, which is the body fat rate of human supermodels. The healthy and reasonable body fat rate is about 15% for men and 20% for women. See for yourself if you don't believe me My legs are thin, okay? Generally speaking, we ordinary people are fatter than pigs.
Don't be silly like a pig. The IQ of pigs ranks tenth among 6.5438+0 million animals, which is much smarter than dogs. This level is equivalent to a four-year-old human child. Specially trained pigs can not only dance, drum, swim and play football, but also push carts directly and play games with their noses. The sense of smell of pigs is ten times more sensitive than that of dogs. Why do we praise other people's noses and say they are dog noses?
Instead of the pig's nose, 7% of the pig's brain is used to process odors, 700 times more than the human brain, and its ability to recognize odors is more than twice that of dogs. Pigs can naturally smell truffles buried deep underground, but dogs still need training, and pigs can easily do nose-dependent work such as drug control and mine clearance.
The two nostrils of a pig are not only breathable, but also don't misunderstand that pigs don't like cleanliness. There are almost no sweat glands on its body surface, so it can't cool down through sweat glands like humans. To make matters worse, the subcutaneous fat of pigs is so thick that it is difficult for pigs to cool down. If you want to cool off in the pigsty, you can only lie on your own shit. If the environment permits, pigs actually like to be clean. It will separate the places where you eat, sleep and go to the toilet.