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It has become quite common for newborn piglets to be taken away from their nursing mothers and sent further along in the production process earlier than before.

Piglets are removed from their mother earlier than four weeks after birth: »It is an extremely harsh start to life«

Piglets are taken from their mothers early, and then the nursing stops. After that, they are put on solid food and risk dying from hunger and diarrhea. Foto: Lærke Berg-pedersen
Piglets are taken from their mothers early, and then the nursing stops. After that, they are put on solid food and risk dying from hunger and diarrhea. Foto: Lærke Berg-pedersen
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Just four weeks after birth, farmers can legally remove piglets from their mothers in conventional pig farms.

This is, in itself, a harsh start to life for the piglets.

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