Video summary
An animal rescuer from Peepal Farm visited a pig breeding facility to investigate reports of injured and sick animals, only to find the situation far worse than anticipated. The rescuer discovered that many pigs were in poor health due to cruel practices, including being fed human food waste such as restaurant leftovers and discarded intestines. While the breeders claimed this was a sustainable recycling system, the reality depicted a cycle where animals are raised specifically for slaughter, often by contractors who buy them cheaply and sell them for profit without caring for their welfare. The transcript highlights that these farmers treat the pigs merely as commodities rather than living beings, with some even admitting they do not feel pain when cutting the animals' necks because they have never raised them themselves.
The video reveals a disturbing lack of empathy among the breeders and a systemic indifference to animal suffering within the local society. Several animals were found in critical conditions, including a piglet that had been injured ten days prior and was still unable to walk properly, as well as others with severe skin infections and broken bones. Despite the rescuer's attempts to treat these animals and educate the farmers on basic care, the breeders refused to change their methods or handle the pigs gently during transport. The narrative emphasizes that while the rescuer provides temporary medical aid, the root cause of the suffering remains the high demand for meat, which ensures that someone will always fill the gap left by those who stop slaughtering animals.
A particularly poignant moment occurs when the rescuer attempts to save a pregnant sow and her newborn piglets from being taken away for slaughter. The animal screams in terror as people prepare to take it, illustrating the intense fear these creatures feel before their lives are cut short. Although the rescuer manages to treat some injuries and provide temporary relief, he acknowledges the limitations of his work, noting that legal intervention cannot stop the cycle of killing once an animal is sold. The only viable solution presented is for consumers to stop buying meat, which would naturally force breeders to cease their operations.
Ultimately, the video serves as a stark critique of the industrial farming system and the societal complicity in animal cruelty. It concludes with the hope that if buyers refuse to purchase meat from such facilities, the entire chain of exploitation will collapse on its own. The rescuer expresses deep sadness over the silence of society regarding these issues but maintains a commitment to helping animals even when their chances of long-term survival are slim. The story ends on a note of cautious optimism, suggesting that change is possible only through collective action and a shift in consumer behavior, rather than relying solely on individual rescue efforts or legal measures.
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An animal rescuer found an injured
piglet. But the child [Sangeet] was
in such a bad condition that
he died by the time he reached us.
He found the child at a place where pigs are
bred. He told us
that there were other pigs there who were in bad condition
and we were going now to improve their condition.
We are from here, we run the hospital from Peepal Farm.
So whatever animals become sick or get injured.
So we are here to
treat any injuries that people have. Will
you introduce me to him once?
No one comes.
Like your breeding goes on, approximately
how many are born, one sow per
sir, each sow becomes seven or eight
and how many sows do you have
sir, all of them are
female, so you must be
leaving one male for mating, how many times a month,
one
after six months, Khushi
and that small piglet, you
sell it when it grows up, it happens
in a year, sir, so whether it is
male or female, you sell it and
where are these people slaughtered,
that Dharamshala, that is not Lambe Dharamshala, yes, the ones
which are not kept wearing red clothes,
yes, they slaughter them,
yes, they take them, the ones which
wear maroon, Llama, Llama, they are
called Lambe, they take them, they
raise them or
slaughter them, they slaughter them, they slaughter them, they
just take care of them here,
you take care of them, this business is
not yours, you work here
and our contractor brought them for Rs. 1
lakh and gave them to us, then we
prepared them and took them away, that is,
they bring them and give them to them. In his life, he
bought pigs worth ₹1.5 lakh and
now he has to breed them and have children,
all this is his capacity. Then when their
child grows up,
they will take it and kill it.
So you get money per pig and the
contractor takes it.
So you get a salary, that
means they have made it five. These are theirs,
those ones are the ones in the middle and the ones in front are
different from them
and these are sold for how many rupees per kg. It
goes according to quantile.
He had said that you will get a small child for Rs 4000.
And what do you feed them? Look, this is
lying there sir, no, no,
it is
not like the ration we
show in our account, you must have
free food sir, so whatever is
left over from the restaurant etc., we give it to
you for free, we pay the price and
then we prepare it again, you
saw that we are preparing it by
mixing it with this, so
where do you buy the chicken waste,
no, we
work in the farm, there is a potty farm here, the
boys work here. My son, one
boy, two boys work.
Okay,
then the best that remains from there is
waste, meaning intestines etc.,
yes intestines etc. remain. legs legs
etc head etc
so we make this and that and
mix it and put it in here. Let's put it in.
Sir, this means that whatever humans do
not eat, we feed it to the pigs.
Yes. Then humans also eat pigs. There
is a lot of system.
So, in a way, we are recycling the waste. It
is sustainable but cruel, isn't it? I mean,
ask the pig.
Like these are small children. Sometimes, after seeing small children, I
feel like I want WWE.
Why doesn't it feel like that? A child is a child.
Yes, that's it. Then you mean, does it never occur to you
that if it is to be cut, it gets cut, even a
human being gets killed, sir,
these are animals
but how do they cut them, their necks are
so long, we do not
cut them, we take the decision
and the entire dairy will sell them, if
you want to cut them, you can cut them, if you do
not cut them,
you will feel pain, you will feel
pain and
we do the work of rearing them, we
rear them and sell them, consumption is high in the modern system
because brother, the person
who is eating neither has to rear them nor has to slaughter them,
he is just eating. He can eat comfortably. The one who has to be
cut has not raised it. He has
no mouth. He can cut it comfortably.
You are selling, you don't have to cut.
Everyone has divided their duties. And it's
going on.
Where did the milk come from?
Look, he is also drinking tea. Let's go
inside. Sorry, you drank tea. Let's go. Went away.
All are sweet.
Do
you have a favorite among these?
Yes.
Which one? If it
hurts, keep it down brother.
I am saying that. Leave it.
Leave it, leave it. This parrot of ours
is around animals but now the question is, I don't know whether he will
see animals as objects or as friends. Do
you think this is a friend?
No.
No. The
society allows breeding of a variety of animals.
Some of them are sold cut
and some are sold uncut. Whoever the animal is, whoever is
selling it, whoever is buying it.
For him she is not a life but just a thing. The
chicken is also in bad condition. This dog
is injured and many other animals are sick.
Oh my god, maybe it needs regular dressing.
All its hair will fall out. The itching will be quite
severe. Will I have to
try and give it treatment
because it gets cured in dogs
but it seems that it will reduce in chicken.
Look, it is a matter of trying but you should think that
if you were in this situation, you too would want to
try. It is
better from here that everything gets better there,
then we will see. The
egg is completely broken, what should be done about
it? It will not join otherwise it was broken in childhood.
We take one in turn. You can find out by scraping the skin.
Medicine will come for the rest too, right? Like we did a
skin
test on him.
What is the disease seen under the microscope? According to that
you can feed the medicine to everyone.
We were explaining to them about the treatment when
suddenly something happened which we did
not expect. Did
you plant these yourself?
Sir, all this flesh had torn, so
I removed it myself with a needle. Do
n't you have any experience with this?
No. [sound of clearing throat] The
rest is fine for now. The rest is happening.
Ok.
When did you plant it slowly? When did you plant these when they were still small
?
How much time has passed? The thread will remain like this. It's been a
long time.
Just open this thread from there, these are
joined but this thread has not come out.
How will he get out? Got connected inside. If you are a
doctor yourself then get
your treatment done from here. Then if
you feel like a doctor then.
No, look, if you are interested in treatment then you can
come to us and learn.
Do it that way. Yes, that is correct.
As long as your animals are being treated,
we have a bike available for you, so come here every day
and learn for 4 hours, in that you will know
how to do dressing.
You should learn the basic treatment. So you are
thinking like this, at least he is still alive.
If the needle had been visible more, they would have gone away.
Or it could have been an infection.
Of course I wouldn't give their treatment method a five
star rating. But I was
happy to see that whatever he thought was necessary for the person,
he at least did that much.
If people in the society do even this much, the
situation will be much better than today. Well, now it was
time to meet the pig for whom we had
come here.
His condition passed. I had given birth to
11 children. Even after that there was such a
delay
and how old is that injury? It's been
101 days.
How will you handle this? These
people will catch him. But what if this is what we treat?
I think there will be no benefit in getting treatment once. I will have to take it.
Because even if we do it today, it will get spoiled again tomorrow. It will take at
least 8-10 days for it to become relaxed.
But
how will we handle it there? Will be done. Have you
done the first handle yet? It will be
tried and purchased.
So we will send the car now. Pigs are taken away.
Take the chicken. Let's see the condition of the goat
then. It is the
body of a goat's leg. I have brought him a lot of
medicines. This is not getting fixed either.
Look,
this is overgrowth sir. What will he have to do?
This also has nothing to do with it. We
remove it surgically. If something remains
here it cannot happen.
Only cleaning can be done here as there is
no treatment for growth. That's the only one that
we can just remove.
What about the child?
Yes, the child is going to sleep some more time,
so many children?
Listen. She
is pregnant. The baby is going to be delivered daily.
Yes, it is going to happen like this.
Tie it around your neck so that
my brother can tie it around your ear or leg. We work, right?
Yes, you know more than I do, he might be thinking that they are taking him
for cutting.
[screaming] They are
bringing it to Kripal, they are bringing it
[screaming]
I can understand the scream of this animal very well.
Till date, whoever he has seen going away, he has
never seen coming back. But
even after hearing such things, the silence of people on all this is
beyond my understanding.
So how do we handle this there?
You should take such a rope, then it will be handled. The
thing doesn't bite. It is not biting, is it?
It doesn't bite.
So when you people take all these of yours to
sell,
why didn't you pick them up like this right now,
why didn't you pick
them up like we do, but
why didn't you pick them up right now,
I had told them two people to
eat,
no,
when you go out,
bring the hair later, I will come like this, then we would have brought it like this,
I had said sir, pick them up like this, they didn't agree,
then they didn't agree,
why didn't they agree, they didn't agree, they didn't agree,
why wouldn't they have
agreed, brother, it's
not the sky, two people can lift it, so
you had agreed, they were also saying, so they would have taken it like this, it was hurt
in his leg, for
now we are able to take him to the
hospital [music] to get him treated,
but after he recovers, we will have to bring
him back.
We cannot save them from being cut by taking help of law. But yes,
before cutting, if it is in bad condition
then we
can only take the help of law to improve its condition. Come here, there is
no discrimination. Are all the
cows, pigs, chickens, goats and
cows reared by you or has someone brought a small one? No no, if you
come to take the girl, she is a small one.
Now it is very difficult for me. Do you know
what? Our work is something that we have been doing for the last 10 years.
That is about saving animals.
Brother, he is injured. Get treatment.
You are not cutting your work but it is in the opposite direction.
So it is very difficult but I don't blame you
brother, as long as people are buying you are
selling. If the
buyers
stop slaughtering the dead, then the breeders will also stop it and we will
stop it automatically.
Yes, that's it, that's it. What they say is that if the
cutter stops cutting then we will not eat. The
eaters will say that they will get it.
Sir, still I am on their side.
Why? Because look, these don't bite.
As long as there is demand, someone will fill it. No
one will leave any money.
Ok. Ok, bye. Bye.
Ok sir.
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