This is her entire world for five weeks.
Right now, 200,000 mother pigs across the UK are locked in cages so small they can’t even turn around. Tell your MP it’s time to end it.
Take Action – Email your MP today
Your MP has the power to raise this issue directly inside Parliament and put pressure on the Ministers responsible for animal protection and food standards.
Emails from constituents carry real political weight. MPs pay attention when people in their constituency speak up. Your message will call on your MP to:
- Urge the Government to commit to ending all cages for mother pigs as the only acceptable outcome of the upcoming consultation, not a smaller or ‘temporary’ version of the same confinement
- Publicly support an end to farrowing cages in the UK, for good
- Press the Government to act on its own Animal Welfare Strategy commitment, rather than allow the transition to stall or be watered down
To send your email, use this Parliament tool to find your MP. After you search your postcode, you can find your MP’s constituency email. Then you can:
Add your address below and it will pre-fill in your email – letting your MP know you’re writing as their constituent.
Review and personalise the pre-written message if you wish – personal touches make all the difference. Please remember to keep it polite!
Hit ‘send email’ to open your ready-made draft. Don’t forget to add in your MP’s email. After you hit send, your email will go directly to their inbox.
Please check that all required fields are filled out and try again.
If you’re having any tech issues with the above tool, feel free to hit ‘copy to clipboard’, for each element and paste into an email manually! Or you can click here to open up the draft. You can still mark that you completed the action by clicking ‘I did this’. Thank you for your dedication to animals!
No animal should be forced to give birth confined in a crate
Helle Haukvik, Head of Science & Veterinarian
An investigation into UK pig farms reveals mother pigs suffering severe psychological distress, including likely PTSD, from confinement in farrowing cages.
Protect pigs
Pigs are highly social animals who are often considered smarter than dogs. You can protect these intelligent animals by simply choosing plant-based alternatives.