Ninety-seven percent of pigs today are raised in factory farms, where they will never run across sprawling pastures, bask in the sun, breathe fresh air, or do anything else that comes naturally to them. Crowded into warehouses with nothing to do and nowhere to go, they are kept

on a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk Pigs are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they

sleep or eat. And forget the silly saying “sweating like a pig”—pigs can’t even sweat! That’s why they bathe in water or mud to cool off. But in factory farms, they’re forced to live in their own feces and vomit and even amid the corpses of other pigs.

Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer from mange—think of your worst case of poison ivy, and imagine having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
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Think that you can outplay a pig on your Playstation? You may be surprised.

According to research, pigs are much smarter than dogs and they even do better at video games than some primates. In fact, pigs are extremely clever animals who form complex social networks and have excellent memories.
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Eating a pig is like eating your dog!

As actor Cameron Diaz put it after hearing that pigs have the mental capacity of a 3-year-old human: “[Eating bacon is] like eating my niece!”Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your waistline and

increase your chances of developing deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis Alzheimer’s, asthma, and impotence. Research has shown that vegans are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of

meat-eaters.
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