Lewis Bollard

I deliberately didn't choose the most gruesome or out-there practices I could find.

These are everyday realities involved in the production of most pork and eggs globally.

Here we go, the gestation crate.

This is why the pigs at the slaughterhouse were limping.

They were female breeding pigs who had been confined to crates, unable to walk or even turn around for their entire pregnancies.

Once they gave birth, they were moved to slightly larger birthing crates and then back into these crates to get pregnant again and again and again for years on end.

A friend of mine who worked undercover at a pig factory farm told me the worst thing he has ever done was to force these pigs back into their crates after they gave birth.

They fought so hard not to go back in.

battery cage on an egg factory farm.

Most of the world's eight billion egg-laying hens, roughly one for every person alive on Earth today, are confined right now in cages like these, unable to so much as flap their wings.

And this is a trash can full of live baby chicks.

I honestly didn't believe this one when I first heard about it.

It just sounded like comic book villain stuff.

But it's real.

The egg industry has no need for the seven billion male chicks born annually.

so it kills them on their first day alive in this world, typically by throwing them in the trash or into a giant meat grinder.

I could go on, but don't worry, I won't.

We're all done with the images.

I'm guessing you're not a fan of what you just saw.

And you're not alone.