Animal Equality rescues six baby pigsSeveral Animal Equality activists rescued six pigs from an intensive farm in central Spain. With unmasked faces and in broad daylight they were able to give a new life to these small creatures who had only ever known fear, deprivation, suffering and death. Their mothers, sadly, will never see the light of day, except during transport to and from the lorry that will carry them to the slaughterhouse. They will never know freedom, enclosed as they are in `gestation crates` in which they cannot even turn around. Nor do their cages allow them to look at their children, as any mother would desire to do.
Their babies remained by their sides even though they couldn`t enjoy their mother`s attention and care. They slept on the cement floor and lived amongst excrement and urine. All of them were dirty, some malnourished and others in pain. Though there were dozens of pigs suffering within the farm, we were only able to save the six we had already found homes for...
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