Pig Slaughter

Most people say that pigs are dirty. Well, that isn't true, as they roll in mud to keep away the flies. And even if the look dirty, that doesn't keep them from feeling pain. After all, they still are animals.

For pigs about to be slaughtered stress comes in many forms. They get stressed up because of deprivation of food and water, rough handling, exhaustion due to transportation over long distances, and mixing of animals reared separately, resulting in fighting. Stress can even result to death which is uncommon in pigs for slaughter.
Pigs are fed on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's), and their feces are loaded with antibiotic-resistant microbes and heavy metals.
Transport Terrors

To make the pigs get into the truck the workers may beat them on their sensitive backs and noses or stick electric prods into their rectums.
'Downers' are sick and injured pigs who are so week they are unable to stand or walk. The 'downers' will be kicked, struck with electric prods and finally hauled out of the trucks only to be slaughtered.
In winter some pigs die frozen to the sides of the trucks while in summer pigs die of heat exhaustion. When additional animals are forced to pile up on top of the pigs who are already inside some suffocate. All the pigs are panicked, and are screaming. They desperately try to get away. Some even die of heart attack.
The pigs are so frightened that they scream and try to get away. There is lack of air in the trucks, as a result pigs struggle to breathe. They usually aren't given food or water for the whole journey, and the journeys are often hundreds of miles long.
In the Slaughter House

Slaughtered pig

All their lives the pigs haven't walked much, as a result there legs and lungs are so weak they can barely walk. And then they see space ahead of them and get overjoyed and start running out of the truck. Most often the pigs are running for the first time in their lives. They jump and buck, overjoyed, and then suddenly their legs can't bear their weight and the pigs collapse, their bodies full of pain from mistreatment and abuse on the factory farms.
Many pigs aren't stunned properly, as a result they are still alive and conscious when they enter the scalding tanks. The scalding tanks are meant to remove the pigs hair and soften their skin.
How painful would it be for us if we were slaughtered like that?
The average pigs life is 10-15 years. When we slaughter them their life is reduced to a horrible 6 months.

Piglet

To stop all this cruelty we will have to turn vegetarian or vegan. I have been a vegetarian all my life and I feel absolutely normal and healthy.
In fact some people say that after the pigs have been kept and slaughtered in such horrible conditions it isn't healthy to eat their meat, and it may make us sick.