Nomerlita Librao, attends to her pigs at her backyward piggery in Sittio Upper Bangkal in Rodriguez, Rizal.
“The cruel treatment of pigs is abhorrent and completely unacceptable. Pigs and other farm animals are not cogs in a machine,” said Mark Dia, Global Farming Director at World Animal Protection as a response on how pigs are being killed in the country in the course of disease control.
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