From the “Issues” section of a website for a new film called “Pig Business”:

Endless pregnancy
“Female pigs (sows) are first inseminated when they are 6-8 months old, mostly artificially. A sow’s pregnancy last about 16 weeks and she usually has 10 to 12 piglets per litter. She would normally wean her young at 12 to 14 weeks; however, in intensive farming her piglets are forcibly weaned much earlier, at 3 to 4 weeks. One week after weaning, she will be inseminated again. After giving birth to between 4 and 7 litters, exhausted by a life of constant pregnancies, she is slaughtered, typically aged between 3 and 5 years, and her carcass is used for low-quality meat products such as sausages and pork pies. Her natural lifespan would have been between 10 and 15 years.”

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