This is the largest single-building pig farm in the world. At 26 storeys high, it can slaughter 1.2 million pigs per year. It was built in Ezhou, China, to help the country's exploding demand for pork. Pork is China's most popular meat, with the country consuming nearly half of global pork demand.

[u/James_Fortis]

[u/SilverDollaFlappies]

“Don't let the name throw you, Jimmy. It's not really a floor. It's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported”

[u/J_Bear → u/SilverDollaFlappies]

Just ask this scientician!

[u/SilverDollaFlappies → u/J_Bear]

Uh…

[u/Carlobo → u/SilverDollaFlappies]

He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive.

🍌🦍🦈

[u/likeninja → u/J_Bear]

Probably went to Bovine University

[u/pneuprismatic → u/SilverDollaFlappies]

Sounds like someone went to “Bovine Univerity.”

[u/ChymChymX → u/SilverDollaFlappies]

If a pig ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about.

[u/CartographerSilent73 → u/ChymChymX]

What's funny is it's not true with a cow but a pig would definitely eat you if it could

[u/LessInThought → u/CartographerSilent73]

I heard that pig pens are a great way to dispose of bodies because of that. They'd eat you up.

[u/Separate_Finance_183]

This is giving me black mirror vibes

[u/Actual-Wave-1959 → u/Separate_Finance_183]

The pig episode? 

[u/FancyRobot → u/Actual-Wave-1959]

I remember the pig being loved in that episode

[u/regoapps → u/FancyRobot]

I don’t remember the Prime Minister being well liked

[u/BannedMyName → u/regoapps]

He could still join the FBI, they don't care about bestiality now

[u/CaptainTripps82 → u/FancyRobot]

Did the pig consent to be filmed?

[u/rainbowplasmacannon → u/Separate_Finance_183]

I mean it’s the reality of what most people eat…. Just scaled up for chinas population

[u/Glittering-Walrus228 → u/rainbowplasmacannon]

Brother may i have some oats

[u/Yashema → u/Glittering-Walrus228]

You might finding making small changes to your diet slowly over time allows you to greatly reduce the amount of animal protein you consume. It's part flavor, part habit. 

[u/OuterWildsVentures → u/Yashema]

I did my part last night by eating cereal for dinner.

[u/Euphoric-Skirt7649 → u/Yashema]

I took a nutrition class and learned about the “flexitarian” diet where you essentially minimize intake of meat and processed food but not cutting out all together. Sounds silly but skipping meat 2-3 days per week and eating more grains, vegetables, fruit, and nuts makes a tremendous difference both to the environment and personal health as, aside from the obvious need for protein, beef is actually not that great for us.

[u/apolloxer → u/Euphoric-Skirt7649]

We don't need 10 people who do it perfectly. 10 billion doing it half-assed is better.

[u/Different_Wolf_764 → u/apolloxer]

Luckily, a good chunk of the world's population is semi-vegetarian or traditionally eats much less meat than westerners do. Hindus being the most obvious but even east Asians tend to consume much less meat overall.

[u/KSP_master_ → u/Glittering-Walrus228]

No

[u/jcoinster → u/Separate_Finance_183]

Or the movie Okja...

[u/az1m_ → u/Separate_Finance_183]

Wait till you see what everyone else does to chickens

[u/vocally_fried_brain → u/Separate_Finance_183]

in the west it looks exactly the same, but not stacked. so, is there a difference?

[u/IPBotRo]

Damnthatsfucked

[u/sorriso_pontual → u/IPBotRo]

that's oinked up

[u/bob_in_the_west → u/IPBotRo]

Is it? This is just multiple farms stacked on top of each other. The animals aren't treated any better on a lot of big single story farms.

[u/Saikotsu → u/bob_in_the_west]

That doesn't make it less fucked up, it makes it more so.

[u/Decloudo → u/Saikotsu]

This exists cause people want meat.

[u/ToddHowardTouchedMe → u/Decloudo]

exactly. I'm not a vegan but there really is no argument against Veganism.

[u/Blablasnow → u/IPBotRo]

Damnthatssad
Go vegetarian
Edit: even better, vegan

[u/immersemeinnature → u/Blablasnow]

I'm trying!

[u/kenc1842]

More sad than interesting.

[u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 → u/kenc1842]

I'm not against rearing animals for food in absolute terms, but when it gets to mass scale where the sentience of the animals is negated entirely and their existence is that of a victim in a Saw movie... get me out.

This kind of shit is a great advert for veganism. Utterly horrifying what people do to animals and the rest of the natural world.

[u/KroneckerAlpha → u/Alarmed-Newspaper994]

In the US alone, we kill over 1 million chickens every hour. If you eat meat and don’t hunt it yourself, it probably came from some pretty sad conditions

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/KroneckerAlpha]

When I was lifting weights a lot, naturally I ate a lot of chicken breast. Obviously chickens have two breasts. It was eye-opening to realize how many chickens I personally was consuming. Multiply that by the whole population, it's not hard to imagine why factory farming is a thing, as horrendous as it is.

Nowadays I am mostly responsible for the deaths of millions of beans and grains of rice and soybeans lol.

[u/thisisaskew → u/PiccoloAwkward465]

The fun part is how they've been bread to produce breast meat so large that it would kill them if they lived a natural lifespan.

But I like meat, and modern problems require modern solutions, so I'm not even throwing shade. I do think we should teach in school what mass scale agriculture looks like, though.

[u/Dconnolly69 → u/thisisaskew]

Modern solution - lab grown meat! Never tried it, don’t know much about it but it seems much more ethical and sustainable. I would happily pay more if I knew it meant animals weren’t born, raised and killed in inhumane conditions like the vid or mass butchered.

[u/DroidOnPC → u/Dconnolly69]

I think lab grown meat will be the future. Not like 5 or 10 years, but maybe 50 years from now.

[u/Longjumping_Youth281 → u/DroidOnPC]

Yeah I mean I guess it's probably going to depend on what they can do cheaper. If they can sell lab meat cheaper than that will probably be the most popular. If making a 30 storey Factory of death is cheaper than that's what we'll get

[u/DroidOnPC → u/Longjumping_Youth281]

lab meat will start out more expensive, but I think with time it will become the cheaper option. Especially if the demand rises.

Being able to eat perfect meat without any worry of illness is gonna be huge.

[u/thesoulfield → u/Dconnolly69]

well, if you live in the US, you'll have a great opportunity to try it this year and the next. and maybe a few after that. what with the toxic waste beef being imported under the table from Argentina, i imagine many will be looking for suitable alternatives. i hope it increases demand for lab-grown meat and normalizes the consumption, subsequently leading to an increased output of lab-meat and more and more people making a permanent switch.

one can dream, anyway.

[u/cheeze2005 → u/KroneckerAlpha]

And hunting is not a viable option for sating the country’s demand for meat. We’d be out of animals in one day

[u/StaredAtEclipseAMA → u/Alarmed-Newspaper994]

I mean, this is what most of the meat you are eating looks like before it is harvested. I know it’s very enticing to ignore for the sake of tasty food

[u/Weekly-Ad8816 → u/Alarmed-Newspaper994]

Same happens in your country except the building is not vertical lol

[u/Sensitive-Plate-684 → u/Weekly-Ad8816]

People like to think that THEIR meat comes from special animals that live lives of comfort until they are killed mercifully in their sleep, and that the USA would never let THEIR meat cause suffering.

[u/No-Silver7895 → u/Alarmed-Newspaper994]

100% agree. I decided a while ago that I have the means and am in a location where I can source my meat directly from a farmer. I believe everyone who wants to eat meat should do this. Would that drive up the price wildly? Yes. It shouldn't be cheap.

[u/GenLodA → u/No-Silver7895]

If everyone would go to a farmer for meat, then the farmer would end up raising a building like this one to accommodate all the animals he needs to meet the demand

[u/ImTallerInPerson → u/Alarmed-Newspaper994]

So you’re against it but you still support it? The sentience of every animal is neglected in a slaughter house mate, and 99% of all meat today is factory farmed, so unfortunately not everyone can give the ‘not on my uncles farm’ bullshit

[u/Aberfrog → u/kenc1842]

It’s just a bunch of standard pig production facilities stacked above each other.

[u/Internal-Plantain-56 → u/Aberfrog]

Yeah was gonna say. Our factory farming isn’t any better.

[u/Indercarnive → u/Internal-Plantain-56]

No you see by spreading the farms out instead of stacking them on top it makes everything else a-ok. We all know the taller the building the less ethical it is.

[u/sauteslut → u/kenc1842]

It's very sad. Go vegan 🌱💚

[u/penguinpolitician]

Meatrix

[u/semi-proantfarmer]

Wonder what they do with the waste.

[u/banbantekno → u/semi-proantfarmer]

Probably it is all handled carefully by law, and by international standards, probably the antibiotics from the urine and feces are never getting into the drinking water of the town around...I bet

[u/GurNo3022 → u/banbantekno]

Realistically it's being held in anerobic digesters and the methane sold or burned on site....whatever is left the solids get settled out for fertilizer and the decanted liquid that SHOULD BE TREATED in a wastewater plant is sent to the river

[u/Spikey_cacti → u/GurNo3022]

What about the hydrogen sulfide, that's the deadly gas. Plus there is no need to settle out the waste for fertilizer, you can transport it easier as liquid fertilizer and spray it directly on the fields.

[u/Macelee → u/Spikey_cacti]

Hydrogen sulfide isn't the worst to deal with. It's dense, so escape to the atmosphere isn't as problematic. It burns to form harmless and easily collectible sulfur oxides. Only real issue is the production of sulfuric acid if it burns in excess oxygen, but even then that is a problem humans have learned to manage.

Transportation costs scale with mass, so while liquid fertilizer might require less processing, it might not be as efficient depending on how separation is performed.

[u/Spiffy_B21 → u/banbantekno]

a shiny big pipe into the neighbours village.. (after they contaminate all ground water)

[u/nicoznico → u/Spiffy_B21]

Confirmed. The pipe actually ends up in America's backyard.

[u/montigoo → u/nicoznico]

So you’ve tried Gummie Bears?

[u/Omniphilo23 → u/Spiffy_B21]

Y'all all have a very narrow view of China. Lol the reason it's in a building like that in the first place is because they are being forced to manage it cleanly.

[u/hrminer92 → u/banbantekno]

The nitrites in it will fuck up the ground water even if antibiotics weren’t used.

[u/_OngoGablogian → u/banbantekno]

they actually convert it to fertilizer and biogas. lay off the propaganda

[u/otterpusrexII → u/_OngoGablogian]

Yeah being a business cheat in China has actual harsh penalties. Things have changed in China in the last 20 years.

Some stuff hasn’t. But every society has corrupt officials.

[u/EjunX → u/otterpusrexII]

The baby food scandal lead to beheadings for the people who built that shitty company, so yeah, they take that stuff seriously, way more seriously than the West where you can just pay a small fine and avoid prison entirely.

[u/callisstaa → u/EjunX]

The gutter oil guys got the death sentence also.

[u/Aberfrog → u/semi-proantfarmer]

They have a biogas reactor which turns the waste into biogas and fertiliser.

The gas is then fed to a gas turbine on site and produced heat and electricity for the site.

It’s a pretty efficient system.

[u/Adventurous-Wash-287 → u/Aberfrog]

yea at this scale not having one would be stupid

[u/politiexcel → u/semi-proantfarmer]

It’s piped directly into the fertilizer building next door. Next door to that, the garden building.

[u/MonkeyMan18975 → u/semi-proantfarmer]

China strengthened the regulations surrounding the storage and transportation of animal waste last month as well as requiring all farms to install real-time online monitoring of pollutants. China also has arrested violators of the law in the past which, for me, seems to be a much more effective deterrent than simply fining a company.

[u/UncleKeyPax → u/MonkeyMan18975]

last month? LAST MONTH?

[u/Cockyoin → u/UncleKeyPax]

better last month than never i suppose

[u/funkhero → u/UncleKeyPax]

Do we really want to bag on a nation for improving their regulations when the USA is right there?

[u/SufficientBug5940 → u/funkhero]

Yeah, but USA numbah WAN! I think.

[u/OcelotAggravating860 → u/UncleKeyPax]

Do not underestimate how quickly China has developed. 30 years ago 90%+ of the population live in extreme poverty while today 0% do, it was completely eliminated.

Legislation always lags behind development. It will catch up.

[u/JohnHazardWandering → u/UncleKeyPax]

People forget how far China has come and how fast it happened. 

[u/Latter-Driver]

Isn't this just a normal pig farm except it has 26 floors?

[u/papes_ → u/Latter-Driver]

Yes, though you will find a lot of people deluding themself that the meat they buy from the supermarket somehow isn’t from this kind of environment. Meat production is a profit making endeavour, and those running the business will cut every corner they can within the law (and oftentimes outside of it) to make more money.

[u/olih27 → u/papes_]

Agreed. The vast majority of people are not willing to trade the price of meat for better animal welfare. They conveniently dont think about the process by which it ends up in the supermarket 

[u/Squaregogh]

I should really try and become vegetarian

[u/filth_horror_glamor → u/Squaregogh]

I made the switch in 2011 and haven’t looked back. I like it. I know it’s not for everybody but I’m definitely glad i did it

[u/Dechri_ → u/filth_horror_glamor]

It is tough when all my favourite foods include meats, or is much better with meats. 

But i am getting better cooking with tofu! 

[u/Jelousubmarine → u/Dechri_]

Hey, every single meal counts. Even halving the amount of meat per dish counts.

I'm also on team More Vegetarian Meals Per Week for now, and feeling more..functional. internally.

[u/thetrueGOAT → u/Jelousubmarine]

Great outlook, something everyone should do. I'll try take the sentiment with me

[u/Jelousubmarine → u/thetrueGOAT]

The 50% less method has been a life savior, as my family still is very much mostly meat eaters. You can still use bacon, or beef, or chicken; just make sure to pair it with the same volume of vegetables, mushrooms, legumes or tofu :) works in woks, stews, pastas.. you name it.

[u/JoeyDJ7 → u/Dechri_]

You must try some recipes from RainbowPlantLife (Nisha Vora)! They are absolutely incredible, I've loved everything I've made and have bought her books too. She makes YouTube videos as well:

https://rainbowplantlife.com/

Here's my favourite soup: Lemony Chickpea Soup

I love these Gochujang Noodles (I add fried tempeh chunks): Gochujang Noodles

[u/Feorag-ruadh → u/Squaregogh]

Have been vegetarian for 20 years and have never looked back. There are so many tasty things that don't require the suffering of an innocent animal

That said it is a big transition for many people and even starting to reduce your consumption is a step in the right direction

[u/ExcitingMushroom9514 → u/Feorag-ruadh]

Milk and eggs require the suffering of animals though.

[u/ceaseful → u/ExcitingMushroom9514]

This is true. But vegetarianism is still many many times better than the "standard" diet that contains meat. Do what you can!

[u/iam_Mr_McGibblets → u/Feorag-ruadh]

I've been trying to do one vegetarian day a week and once it gets easier I'll cut back more. Cold turkey is just too much in my opinion

[u/knowbasis → u/Squaregogh]

Try Indian food, it really is not that hard to be vegetarian in India

[u/harsHIT_bHARDwaj → u/knowbasis]

I have been rotating through these for the last 4 years and I didn't get bored once (list is not exhaustive, I am not even halfway done):

Dal Bati Choorma, Gatte ki sabji, Kofte, Dahi bhalle, Vegetable/boondi/sada Raita, Saangri (rare and expensive), Kaachar, Kundru, Sev tamatar, Dahi fry, Dal pyaaz, cream dal, Malai pyaaz, Chana masala, Mix veg, Baingan (egg plant) bharta, Akha moong dal, Ghiya kofta, Poha (flattened rice), Smoked gawar fali, Bharva baingan, Tawa aalo, Soya chaap, Kichdi, Pudina/lal mirch/kaachar/nariyal/dhaniya chutneys, Rice with soya chunks, Soya chunks + potato, Tawa bhindi (okra/ladyfinger), Tawa aalo(potato), Malai moongfali(groundnut), Rajma rice, Garlic rice, Fried rice (with soya chunks, onions), Tomato sabji, Radish sabji, Patod ( a besan sabji), Patra (taro root leaf), Opium leaf, Malai corn, Aalo/ghiya/maithi/gobhi/jeera/cheese/paneer partha with curd and pickles,

Paneer roll, Vegetable roll, Pickle roll, Potato+curd roll,

Khaman Dhokla(snack), Jalebi fafda (snack), Bikaji Bhujiya,

Idli, Dosa, Medu vada, Aalo vada, Vada paav, Undhiu, Uttpam, Besan/Sooji ke chille , Paav bhaaji, Dabeli, Samosa (I know it's an Afghan snack), Kachori (snack), Mirchi vada (snack), Bread pakoda (snack), Paav + manchurian, Chhole bhature, Mathri, Petha, Shing dana, Chhole kulche, Dam aalo, Ghiya + chana dal, Malai Papad, Pyaj papad sookha, Matar/kadhai/shahi/palak Paneer (dairy), Aaloo palak, Fried gobhi (cauliflower), Gobhi aloo with curry, Fried cabbage (red-orange version - extra chilli),

Raw Mango/Carrot/Turmeric/Chilli/Garlic/kair/lemon/amla achaar (pickle),

Sweets: Moong Daal halwa, Carrot halwa, Potato halwa, Wheat flour Halwa, Besan chakki, Balushahi, Bengali mithai, Milkcake, Gulaab jamun, Chirawa (a place) ka peda (it's expensive but super tasty), Ghevar, Mava kachori, Mishri mava, Rabdi, Imarti, Jalebi, Nariyal chakki, Sweet rice, Molasses (liquid jaggery)

Edit: added some punctuation because reddit made new line rows into a whole ass paragraph. Also added more entries. Also for those who think of curry when thinking of Indian food, you would be surprised how it's not even half the picture. You can eat most of the listed items with any of your favourite breads (I prefer tawa roti, tandoori roti,paratha and naan)

Edit 2: My mother is a veteran of cooking all of this. Her pickles and chutneys are exported too!! She is thinking of starting a youtube channel.

[u/Shoulder-Ordinary → u/harsHIT_bHARDwaj]

I say this with love and a will to learn. Please add some commas or something between these so I can take this list and make them. I think your using capitals? Even better if you have recipe links!

[u/6minuterule → u/Shoulder-Ordinary]

🍛 Main Dishes

• Dal Bati Churma
• Gatte Ki Sabji
• Kofte
• Dahi Bhalle
• Raita
• Saangri (rare and expensive)
• Kaachar
• Kundru
• Sev Tamatar
• Dahi Fry
• Dal Pyaaz
• Cream Dal
• Malai Pyaaz
• Chana Masala
• Mix Veg
• Baingan Bharta (eggplant)
• Akha Moong Dal
• Ghiya Kofta
• Smoked Gawar Fali
• Bharva Baingan
• Tawa Aloo
• Tawa Bhindi (okra/ladyfinger)
• Malai Moongfali (groundnut)
• Tomato Sabji
• Radish Sabji

🍚 Rice, Dal & Soya

• Khichdi
• Rajma Rice
• Garlic Rice
• Fried Rice with Soya Chunks & Onions
• Rice with Soya Chunks
• Soya Chunks + Potato
• Soya Chaap
• Poha (flattened rice)

🥘 Snacks & Street Food

• Khaman Dhokla
• Jalebi Fafda
• Idli
• Dosa
• Medu Vada
• Aloo Vada
• Vada Pav
• Undhiyu
• Uttapam
• Besan/Sooji Ke Chille
• Pav Bhaji
• Dabeli
• Samosa (I know, it’s technically an Afghan snack 😆)
• Kachori
• Mirchi Vada
• Bread Pakoda
• Pav + Manchurian

🌿 Chutneys

• Pudina (mint)
• Lal Mirch (red chili)
• Kaachar
• Nariyal (coconut)
• Dhaniya (coriander)

🥒 Achaar / Pickles

• Raw Mango
• Carrot
• Turmeric
• Chilli
• Garlic
• Kair

🍬 Sweets

• Moong Dal Halwa
• Carrot Halwa
• Potato Halwa
• Wheat Flour Halwa
• Besan Chakki
• Balushahi
• Bengali Mithai
• Milkcake
• Gulab Jamun
• Chirawa Ka Peda (expensive, but super tasty)
• Ghevar

[u/harsHIT_bHARDwaj → u/Shoulder-Ordinary]

Sorry man, I had put all the entries in new lines, reddit made a whole paragraph Outta it.

[u/Bonzie_57 → u/Squaregogh]

If that seems impossible, just try to half your meat consumption 🤷 I’m vegetarian but understand most people never will be. But, I’m all about people finding ways to reduce their meat consumption for both the environment and their health

[u/-MagicPants- → u/Squaregogh]

It’s easier than you think

[u/Atomik23 → u/Squaregogh]

Yep. Way easier than you think too. And remember, if you mess up, who cares, it's not about a streak or anything, just keep trying.

Vegan is pretty easy too, especially coming from vegetarian. There is no need to do this to animals and this is the best way to remove yourself from the market demands on their bodies

[u/drhuggables → u/Atomik23]

If you eat meat once in a while you're not doing anything wrong as a vegetarian. It's not like relapsing after being sober for years for alcoholism. As long as you're overall reducing the amount of meat you eat, you're still doing the right thing.

[u/Ramblonius → u/Squaregogh]

It is sincerely easier than you think, especially if you do any cooking yourself.

[u/Capable-Macaron-3014 → u/Squaregogh]

If that's your goal, try to ween yourself off of it. Become pescatarian first or cut out meat 1-2 days of the week.

[u/ninjaslikecheez → u/Squaregogh]

You can try reducing meat at first, there are plenty of options nowadays.

[u/Raposa13]

For a moment I thought this was Minecraft

[u/Jazzyoutro]

This is beyond messed up

[u/Internal-Plantain-56 → u/Jazzyoutro]

Are you a vegetarian? Because this is exactly how we farm a lot of our meat. Spread out isn’t that much better than stacking them on top of each other.

[u/Jazzyoutro → u/Internal-Plantain-56]

Yes, I am since many years

[u/Electronic-Road-3652 → u/Jazzyoutro]

Cruel doesn't even justify this

[u/fothergillfuckup]

Well that's horrible. So much for animal welfare.

[u/Neshgaddal → u/fothergillfuckup]

It is horrible, but pig farms literally all over the world look exactly like this, except this is 26 pig farms stacked on top each other. The concentration is higher, but the level of horror is basically the same in almost all western countries.

[u/Educational_Will1963 → u/Neshgaddal]

But it is in china, so in their heads, it must be worse

[u/CouncilOfApes → u/Educational_Will1963]

Americans will be shocked to learn that China owns a huge amount of the pig farms in the US

[u/Floyd_Pink]

Man, that's upsetting.

[u/Ok-Oldwoman70]

Never say never...................... my only regret about being plant based is that I didn't do it earlier.

[u/GrumpySquirrel2016]

Imagine living your whole life in those conditions ...

[u/Aberfrog → u/GrumpySquirrel2016]

That’s just like every other high density pork production facility. It’s just stacked above each other.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like it. But it’s not worse then any other industrial livestock farm

[u/Neo-TA94 → u/GrumpySquirrel2016]

Me going between my office, train, and apartment.

[u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 → u/Neo-TA94]

At least you get to see the sky

[u/HaveUseenMyJetPack]

Pure horror

[u/Ruski3790]

Pig Auschwitz

[u/KillTheBronies → u/Ruski3790]

Auschwitz took 4-5 years years to kill 1.1 million, this is worse than Pig Auschwitz.

[u/ichkanns]

I can't imagine the smell...

[u/SeveredSynthesis → u/ichkanns]

Or the cacophony of pain.

[u/rezznik → u/SeveredSynthesis]

Interesting enough, that was the reason that they don't allow cattle transports during the day here anymore. A while ago, I was driving during the night and 'met' a pig transport on a highway rest. The noise and smell were intense.

[u/ZePeLLiN98]

This is so sad

[u/rocket_beer]

Tofu is the best

[u/seblangod → u/rocket_beer]

Tempeh is also amazing

[u/sssmiklo → u/rocket_beer]

Big fan of beans

[u/12Cheerios → u/rocket_beer]

Tofu is great

[u/Slow_Marionberry]

This isn’t interesting, it’s horrifying.

[u/AppearanceNo3757]

Whelp, time to reconsider vegetarianism.

[u/Specialist-Brain-919 → u/AppearanceNo3757]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBF2qmamgy1ukIH3hIH7LQWRY-OYmtO8SM94qNMNJJI/edit?usp=drivesdk

In case it helps you, I recently combined all our favorite vegetarian recipes in one document :)

[u/jackloganoliver → u/AppearanceNo3757]

I still eat meat here and there, but the more plants I eat (and not highly processed vegan frozen foods but actual plants) the better I feel, the more energy I have, the better my moods are, the better I sleep, etc. I’m hoping to fully eliminate all animal products in time. It’s good for us, animals, and the planet.

[u/Less-Patient-8032]

This stuff needs to end. Go vegan

[u/Suave_Sativa]

That’s disturbing but I’m not surprised.

[u/voodoofxz]

Wow we are one seriously messed up species. The fact that we would do this to another species is on another level. So sad!

[u/throwaway661375735 → u/voodoofxz]

You've never seen what we do to captured Orcas, train them, and leave the bored to death? What about melting beaks off chickens while feeding them 24 hours a day with the lights always on, so they will lay eggs non-stop? How we put cattle in pens with no room to manuever so they can stand in their own piss and shit. Growing them so we can kill them and eat them? What about forcing female cows to always be lactating by making them pregnant, and stealing their babies to be used as food? Have you seen how they "farm" salmon, but never give them the chance to eat krill. Their meat comes out gray, and has to be colored orange. The truth is, we have them in underwater cages and all they do is swim around in big groups.

It's a good thing you haven't seen how we steal animals from their parents so we can put them in cages to be stared at all day by kids.

[u/morfr3us]

One day children will learn about this in their 21st century history class with horror and conclude their ancestors were monsters

[u/chrisforchristmas]

So glad I'm not taking part on this sick contribution anymore

[u/AshMost]

That's dystopian AF

[u/Lenn_4rt]

go vegan!

[u/MatthewBlack6]

It's never too late to start doing things differently

https://youtu.be/BJYtuLbUv8w?is=lkPZEC5NyKhJYdvU

This is the link to the documentary Earthlings. It's very confronting and the first 10 minutes made me go vegetarian for 3 months, and was one of the first steps towards going fully vegan.

Edit: it's not comforting whatsoever. It's confronting!

[u/postednudesbefore]

This is far from interesting. That's the pure definition of disgust and abuse.

[u/zeaL93]

If animals could form a religion, man would be the devil

[u/Adam_Sackler]

"Are we the baddies?"

Yes. Yes, we are.

Go vegan.

[u/FieryPheonix474]

r/damnthatsanimalcruelty

[u/papes_ → u/FieryPheonix474]

It’s what meat production looks like - in most countries, if you’re buying meat from the supermarket, this is the kind of environment it’s from.

[u/wv10014]

Horrific

[u/InSan1tyWeTrust]

Damn that's depressing more like.

[u/WormWithWifi]

Yeah I don’t like that ..

[u/FannyMcNutt]

Go vegan ffs

[u/-TropicalFuckStorm-]

Go vegan.

[u/Teldryyyn0]

I don’t blame any meat eaters. I‘ve eaten so much meat over the years myself and only recently stopped. But I think nobody can deny that this is a place of absolute misery that humanity created, and it doesn‘t need to exist. Our lives wouldn't be any worse if we didn't inflict this cruelty.

[u/Odd_Leg814]

What a terrible and short life that must be. God

[u/Iron_Baron]

Our species is a pox upon this world.

[u/llama_]

You buy pork, you give these people (and people like them) your money.

[u/Any-Photograph5525 → u/llama_]

All industrial meat farming looks like this

[u/llama_ → u/Any-Photograph5525]

Yes, also horrific practices

[u/1isOneshot1]

Me desperately looking for reasons to go vegan:

[u/Silound]

That's a lot of pig shit!

Given a six-month period to go from feeder to market, that's roughly 200K adult hogs at any given time. A market hog is 220-250 pounds and consumes 5-9 lbs of feed per hog, per day (depending on current and desired weights). Two market hogs on sizing feed will easily shit enough to fill a bucket every day. So that's 100K buckets of pig shit, or somewhere between 300K-500K gallons of pig shit every day (accounting for some air gaps if it's more solid than liquid).

[u/Scoobenbrenzos]

This is just fucked up. It’s stuff like this that made me go vegan

[u/New_Discipline_1069]

Fuck, we are terrible

[u/Jet_Pac]

It looks creepy

[u/radioactive_sharpei]

Disgusting, not interesting.

[u/Kanji-light]

Makes a mockery of the word ‘humanity’.

[u/particularfields]

This is disgraceful, history will not look kindly on this period.

[u/Digital-Exploration]

Fuck this is depressing 

[u/eezmo]

What have we done?

[u/kk-rem]

Probably the best version of hell that actually exists

[u/noisyboy]

r/damnthatisdepressing

[u/agentzero2020]

So many ignorant people pretending ‘regular’ farms are superior to vertical farms which are born out of necessity to feed people.

[u/Rescuepets777]

It's not interesting. It's revolting. These animals live in overcrowded pens their entire lives and never see the light of day. Sows are forced to lay on their sides to be impregnated and feed piglets. They aren't able to get up to move around. The "industrialized" meat industry is an abomination.

[u/Buskbr]

So glad im vegetarian when i see this shit, im not against eating animals but factory farming like this where the animals never experience nature and shit is so sad

[u/AccordingGrocery4716]

I imagine it’s a tough time for the neighbours

[u/2BEN-2C93]

Sowchwitz

[u/Icy-Decision-4530]

I bet you can smell this place for miles

[u/gigantomaxia]

Hogschwitz.

[u/SeeLeavesOnTheTrees]

So much horror for living creatures. Very, very intelligent living creatures.

[u/porkypine666]

A literal hellscape.

[u/Netto324]

This is heartbreaking.

[u/pripjat]

Hell on earth

[u/Beemo-Noir]

God damn this is tragic. We are a cruel species.

[u/VersxceFox]

It really is genocide what we do with animals.

[u/OptimisticViolence]

Annnnnnddd that's why I'm Vegan.

[u/Smoofie0]

How sad. I haven’t had pork for 20 years. 

[u/Mephistocheles]

Disgusting beyond thought

Should throw some humans in there for a single day and see how they like it

[u/stupid_cat_face]

Imagine the fucking smell. And imagine the poop … 26 stories of shit.

[u/Iguana_Enthusiast]

This is disgusting and so is everybody who buys meat to finance this nightmare.

[u/Random_182f2565]

Another hell on earth

[u/ciswhitedadbod]

😢

[u/Mincezz]

Genuinely disgusting