Pig In Hell A Report into the British Pig Industry by Juliet Gellatley, BSc Zoology Director of Viva!

Contents The Size and Type of Pig Industry in Britain About Pigs Like a Pig In..... Bright Sparks A Typical British Pig Farm Breeding Sows Weaners Growers Finishing Pigs Pigs Kept for Breeding The Farrowing Crate Piglets Weaning Boars Gilts Mutilations Tooth-Clipping Tail Docking Factory Farming Causes Tail Biting Nutrition Early Weaning Bad Housing Castration Nutrition and feeding Swill Disease Early Weaning Causes Disease Pig Injuries Can Cause Disease Respiratory Disease Pleuropneumonia PRRS (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome or Blue Ear) Pneumonic Pasteurellosis Scours Salmonella Escherichia coli Lameness Osteochondrosis Swine dysentery Meningitis Glasser’s Disease PMWS and PDNS - new diseases Classical Swine Fever (Hog Cholera) Foot and Mouth Disease The UK outbreak of foot and mouth Drugs Diseases and the Drugs Used The Pig Industry Crisis Genetic engineering - The Industry’s Answer Pig Meat Standard Schemes RSPCA Freedom Foods The British Meat Quality Standard Mark The Farm Assured British Pigs Scheme (FABPigs) Malton Code The Soil Association Standards for Organic Food and Farming Glossary References Appendix 1 - The inaction of MAFF - a Viva! test case Appendix 2 - The Law Appendix 3 - Meat and Breeds Appendix 4 - Description of Viva!’s footage of 18 pig farms