Pig industry under attack


29 October 1999



Pig industry under attack


SUPPORT by a columnist in The Independent for the pig industry gets short shrift from a vegetarian campaigner given a right of reply.

Tony Wardle, deputy director of Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (VIVA!), describes pig units as “brutal, factory farming pure and simple”.

He suggests pigs “suffer a string of diseases virtually from the day theyre born.”


He ends by expressing satisfaction that the pig industry is in crisis.


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