Every year tens of millions of pigs in the US live lives defined by suffering. Confined in crates too small to turn around in, they are denied sunlight, companionship, and the ability to express natural behaviors. But they do not merely suffer. They witness suffering. 

Pigs know the voices of their relatives. They grieve when family is lost. Inside factory farms, they witness loved one's being beaten, mutilated and slaughtered. Their screams are ignored. Their fear is normalized. 

On factory farms, pigs are born into a brief and brutal existence, their lives spent in constant fear and torment. They live among the dying, absorbing terror through the cries of others. Through the silence after. This is not food production, it's is mass trauma: codified and monetized. 

Scientific consensus affirms pigs are sentient, however, sentience is dismissed when cruelty is profitable. Factory farming did not go wrong. It was designed for speed and scale. Pain is not a byproduct, it's the method. Profit is the purpose. There is no reform that can cleanse factory farming.

Our Demands:

We demand the following actions from: 

Brook L. Rollins,  US Secretary of Agriculture

Glenn 'GT' Thompson, US House Agriculture Committee Chair

John Boozman, US Senate Agricultural Committee Chair

• Abolish industrialized pig farming immediately 

• Ban gestation crates and farrowing stalls 

• End mutilation practices performed without anesthesia: tail docking, tooth clipping, and castration.

•. Recognize pigs as sentient beings capable of witnessing and remembering trauma. 

•. Impose a moratorium on industrial breeding facilities. 

This is not a plea for improved conditions. It is a demand for systematic dismantling.