Originally Posted by Libertine

The best of your knowledge is quite inadequate, it appears. The typical pig whose meat you find on your plate will have been taken away from its mother at 2 weeks old. After that it will have had its tail cut off, its ears ripped, its balls chopped off and have had part of its teeth ripped off (all without painkillers, of course). Most of its life it will have spent in a crate so small it wasn't even able to turn around, with no sunlight or fresh food ever. Nearing the end, it will have been violently forced into a truck, transported for hours or even days, and will have come out with about a large chance of being severely wounded or crippled (or, in many thousands of cases, dead). Finally, it will have been slaughtered, quite likely without proper stunning (and thus rather painfully). Possibly, it has survived, and has only died when it was submerged in scalding water (to soften the skin).

Yeah, eating pigs is much, much better