Industrial pork

The pork industry, together with industrial chicken production represents the worst excesses of the agro-industrial paradigm with regard to the factory farming of livestock. Swine raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.

Highly reliant on cheap subsidized grain and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from traditional methods of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.

The end product, while marginally cheaper than pork raised on farms, is of such low quality that the average person of a few generations ago would have not accepted it from their local butcher.

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