Over 90% of pig farms use artificial insemination to impregnate female pigs (sows). Semen is first collected from boars who spend the majority of their lives in small stalls at specialised boar farms, or at some standard piggeries.
Workers will train young boars to mount a 'dummy sow' by first using a real sow to arouse him.
His semen, the semen of other boars or saliva from a sow will be rubbed onto the dummy and he will be encouraged to mount and thrust.
Boars used for breeding will be brought into a small pen and forced to mount the dummy. A worker will rub at their genital area until their penis begins to emerge. The worker will then manually force the boar to ejaculate and collect his semen.
This will be done up to three times a week for each boar.
Often, boars will resist as they are brought into the pens, refusing to mount the dummy even as they are shoved and hit by the worker.
Boars will spend the rest of their time in small stalls, which are barely as wide as their bodies and allow only a few small steps forward and backwards. At two years old, they will be sent to the slaughterhouse.
All of this is completely legal and standard practice...
The sexual exploitation of animals by humans is standard across almost all animal use industries. It's time to ban ALL bestiality in Australia.
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