r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/James_Fortis • Sep 08 '26

Video 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.

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u/Latter-Driver Sep 08 '26

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

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

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.

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u/olih27 Sep 08 '26

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 

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u/sandwichhaver Sep 08 '26

this has been solved already, we have "better conditions meat" , it is much more expensive, they say it tastes better, but most people don't buy it.

people are full of shi

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u/olih27 Sep 08 '26

Isn't that what I said?

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u/No-Aide-8726 Sep 08 '26

if they gave a shit they wouldnt be eating meat in the first place

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u/throwaway5882300 Sep 08 '26

Honestly, if that footage at the end of the clip is real, it's actually a lot better conditions than what you would find at a Smithfield Farms facility in the US.

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u/Succubace Sep 08 '26

My first thought was that those conditions looked really good, I assume(d) it was a different facility entirely.

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u/Kadak_Kaddak Sep 08 '26

There is not a viable process to feed 1B Chinese pork without having this.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

That’s great, because exactly 0 of them need pork to survive

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u/ValuableAd886 Sep 08 '26

It's all fun and games until someone starts telling you what you don't need to survive.

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u/Decloudo Sep 08 '26

You factually dont need meat to survive.

People dont need meat, they want meat.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

Just factually - the vast majority of people can get everything they need to both survive and thrive without animal products.

I'm not sure what your comment means.

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u/Glad-Divide-9850 Sep 08 '26

Most "unnecessary" activities humans do have consequences. Limiting ourselves to only the necessities would be worse than prison. If you want to live like a monk that's up to you, but most people want to enjoy life.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

I disagree. There are plenty of enjoyable things that don't involve taking life - if you believe that your enjoyment of meat outweighs the death it causes, then I'm sure you can be happy consuming it. I don't believe that animals deserve to die for people's convenience or enjoyment, where unecessary.

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u/Glad-Divide-9850 Sep 08 '26

I'm not sure what your point is. If your personal morals makes you not want to eat meat that's perfectly fine. But imposing those morals on others is both rude and ineffective.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

I'm not imposing them on anyone; I'm discussing them - you raised your beliefs with me in response to a fact, and I responded.

What's the forum for discussing something like this if not a post about horrific farming practices?

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u/Southlinch Sep 08 '26

If it wasn't for what you call "imposing morals," the world would be in a much worse spot. I can imagine a lot of figureheads of important movements of the past would roll their eyes at your notion. Are you religious by any chance? Do you get your morals from a book? Or do you get your morals from the general populaces ideas of whats right and wrong, the amorphous nature of which is shaped by conversations like these?

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u/Childoftheway Sep 08 '26

If your personal morals makes you not want to eat meat that's perfectly fine. But imposing those morals

"Personal morals" implies there's an argument to be made that treating untold billions of animals terribly is justifiable because they taste good.

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u/FinishComplex3743 Sep 08 '26

Good thing you're not in charge.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

What does this even mean? I don't think I've made any indication that I want to order people not to eat meat?

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u/Different_Captain_96 Sep 08 '26

Most of the things that people do are not done in order for survival

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

Right, sure - many of them also don't directly require something to die?

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u/Different_Captain_96 Sep 08 '26

Yea but that's more of a philosophical question and a different point.

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

That was my original point, it just wasn’t clear I suppose

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u/FreakingAustin Sep 08 '26

Lab grown meat really can’t come fast enough

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u/Technical_Project_28 Sep 08 '26

True unless you're not American....

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u/otcipitalorange Sep 08 '26

I mean this is just an anti-china post. Wow congrats a massive industrialized society participates in factory farming, thats bad regardless of where it occurs. This is just the new wave of anti-china propaganda US media is going to pump out.

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u/Socrani Sep 08 '26

Pig farms in Australia look nothing like this

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u/papes_ Sep 08 '26

Correct, they're worse.

https://www.farmtransparency.org/media/73-footage-from-five-more-piggeries-released-by-animal-protection-group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqmMJQNWz4

Aus is amongst the worst-rated countries for animal cruelty by a few organisations analysis

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u/Several_Hour_347 Sep 08 '26

You thought you cooked 🤣

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u/imminentjogger5 Sep 08 '26

no this is a normal pig farm with 26 floors from CHINA, so it's bad 

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u/Critical_Concert_689 Sep 09 '26

I'm actually confused why a pig farm would need windows like this.

Do they have a side-office middle-management pig who gets windows?

Are they going to repurpose a pig-slaughter house as an office worker building later? I find the idea that this might be repurposed to be more disturbing than a 26-floor slaughterhouse.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Sep 08 '26

Yeah if anything this is better.

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u/TopMarionberry1149 Sep 08 '26

Pig pen anywhere else: fine

Pig pen made of concrete in China: muh black mirror

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u/WormWithWifi Sep 08 '26

Actually this looks pretty clean for a lot of ones I’ve seen

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u/Active-Curve1280 Sep 08 '26

It’s also AI