The Pig's Side of the Story

Pigs can solve mirror puzzles, hold grudges, and comfort a friend who's having a bad day. So why do we call them dumb? Last week we covered what factory farming does to the water and the air. This week we cover what it does to the pig. In this episode: • Where "dirty, dumb, eats anything" came from and why every one of those is something we did to them, not something they are • Seven of eight pigs found food they could only see in a mirror, in an average of 23 seconds • A pig can live 10-15 years, sometimes 20. On a factory farm it lives about six months • A 280-pound pig gets roughly eight square feet New News • Faunalytics surveyed 801 Indian Gen Z adults on plant-based eating • Researchers at Empa Switzerland built a virtual mouse to reduce and eventually replace animal testing • An Argentine court recognized two goldfish from a sushi-restaurant display as sentient beings with rights Sources • EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, " Welfare of pigs on farm ," 2022 • Broom, Sena & Moynihan, " Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information ," Animal Behaviour, 2009 • Marino & Colvin, " Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus ," 2015 • Knauer et al., " A descriptive survey of lesions from cull sows harvested at two Midwestern U.S. facilities " Iowa State University, 2007 • Jonathan Safran Foer, " Eating Animals " Chapters 0:00 News and Pig Perspective 8:55 Virtual Mice Breakthrough 10:14 Goldfish Get Rights 11:33 Pigs Behind Factory Walls 14:40 Pig Intelligence Revealed 22:51 Why Pigs Seem Greedy 25:32 Pig Emotions and Personality 29:26 What Pigs Need Most 33:01 Factory Farm Suffering 35:41 Crates, Floors, and Crowding 42:15 Air and Disease Risks 47:25 Lameness and Mortality 50:12 Mother Pigs and Piglets 54:46 Wrapping Up and Resources Related from us • The free Vegan Protein Guide : 110 pages, 40 high-protein recipes, meal plans and a grocery list How to Get In Touch ⭐️ Deficient Vegans Discord ⭐️ Deficient Vegans Website Instagram YouTube Deficient Vegans Sub-reddit Muscle Deficient Vegan - Fitness & Nutrition Online Coaching Blog Instagram YouTube TikTok Protein Deficient Vegan - Food & Recipes Recipe Blog <a href='https://www.instagram.com/proteind