By Ellyn Kail on April 19, 2021 A group of piglets in the lactation platform, illuminated by infrared lamps used for fast growth. The body of a dead piglet is laying abandoned on the floor inside an industrial pig farm in northern Italy. Keeping dead animals inside the plant without being legally stocked is absolutely forbidden by EU health regulations, and risky for public health. Worms on the floor of a swine meat plant. The sanitary conditions in these large-scale plants are often extreme. The piglets reared for meat are often mutilated, without anesthetic; these worms came out because a massive mutilation took place. Pigs grow without seeing sunlight, with little ventilation and very little maintenance cleaning. This type of meat industry is a paradise for zoonoses (infectious diseases that have jumped from a non-human animal to humans) and a threat to global health.