Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

This morning, I went to a screening organised by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion Ireland. It contained footage taken from two randomly selected pig farms in Ireland and it was extremely harrowing. These are very smart, sentient animals. They have no daylight or comfortable bedding. They have no space. They are massively crammed together in farrowing crates, sow stalls and fattening pens. There are dead and dying pigs, which have been really maltreated, and then a whole bunch of dead pigs are left. What is going to happen about it? Will the State at least have an investigation into conditions in the pig industry?

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