On U.S. factory farms, female pigs are used as breeding machines to supply an industry that slaughters over 120 million pigs each year.
Many of these gentle mothers spend most of their lives confined to crates during pregnancy and nursing—crates so small that they can’t even stretch their limbs, let alone comfort the vulnerable piglets reaching for their care through cold, metal bars.
But at Farm Sanctuary, pigs like Grace and her daughter, Jodean, are not products. They are living individuals valued for who they are.
Farm Sanctuary has combatted cruel factory farm practices faced by pigs for decades. In 2002, we co-led a successful ballot initiative, Amendment 10, making Florida the first state in the nation to ban gestation crates.
As part of a coalition, we intervened in the case for California’s Proposition 12—a historic ban on not only the confinement of pigs, calves, and hens in crates and battery cages but also the sale of products made using these cruel methods.
In May 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Prop 12, ending the pork industry’s profit-driven fight against this law representing the will of the people, having passed with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
Your generous gift today will sponsor Grace and Jodean and help pigs like them by supporting our vital efforts to transform our food system.
We can’t be sure where Grace and Jodean were before they were found running through residential streets, but at Farm Sanctuary California, they’re now living the lives all pigs deserve.
John, please join us in standing up for pigs and piglets in honor of this inseparable pig family.
