To get the terrified pigs on to the vehicles for transport the animals may be hit on their highly sensitive noses or prodded with electric rods. There is no law regulating the maximum voltage usable.

The animals are then packed so tightly into the vehicles that as one former transporter observed, their intestines are actually forced out of their anus’.

Millions of pigs die in transport each year. The pigs may be moved over long distances for three days or more. During transport, the pigs usually are not provided with food or water.

Traveling through extreme climatic conditions from burning hot to freezing cold, pigs have been found frozen to the sides of the vehicle. These animals are then just left to die as they can not be sold for meat. Workers then drag and kick the remaining pigs to remove them from the truck.

(via lleftovercrack)