The Issues

20 True Costs of Factory Pig Farming

A quick look at some of issues involved with factory pig farming.

Threatening our Health

Evidence suggests that the over-use of antibiotics is helping to spread drug-resistant strains of diseases such as MRSA and E. coli, which can cause humans serious illness and death.

Polluting the Environment

The livestock sector is one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.

Wrecking Rural Communities

Factory farming drives down prices across the sector, making it difficult for other farmers to resist intensification – The meat industries “Get Big or Get Out” mantra.

Abusing Animals

Every year 1.2 billion pigs worldwide are slaughtered for meat, of which more than 50% have been reared by industrial, intensive methods.

Further Reading

Reports, Journals & Articles