Episode Description
Pigs can solve mirror puzzles, hold grudges, and comfort a friend who's having a bad day. So why do we call them dumb?
Last week we covered what factory farming does to the water and the air. This week we cover what it does to the pig.
In this episode:
• Where "dirty, dumb, eats anything" came from and why every one of those is something we did to them, not something they are
• Seven of eight pigs found food they could only see in a mirror, in an average of 23 seconds
• A pig can live 10-15 years, sometimes 20. On a factory farm it lives about six months
• A 280-pound pig gets roughly eight square feet
New News
• Faunalytics surveyed 801 Indian Gen Z adults on plant-based eating
Sources
• EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, "Welfare of pigs on farm," 2022
• Broom, Sena & Moynihan, "Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information," Animal Behaviour, 2009
• Marino & Colvin, "Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus," 2015
• Knauer et al., "A descriptive survey of lesions from cull sows harvested at two Midwestern U.S. facilities" Iowa State University, 2007
• Jonathan Safran Foer, "Eating Animals"
Chapters
0:00 News and Pig Perspective
8:55 Virtual Mice Breakthrough
10:14 Goldfish Get Rights
11:33 Pigs Behind Factory Walls
14:40 Pig Intelligence Revealed
22:51 Why Pigs Seem Greedy
25:32 Pig Emotions and Personality
29:26 What Pigs Need Most
33:01 Factory Farm Suffering
35:41 Crates, Floors, and Crowding
42:15 Air and Disease Risks
47:25 Lameness and Mortality
50:12 Mother Pigs and Piglets
54:46 Wrapping Up and Resources
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