Almost all Swedish pigs are breeded indoors. At most 1-2% of the Swedish bred pigs are able to go outside at som epoint during the year. The indoor facilities are often noisy, dusty and without a proper source of daylight. A majority of the pigs are subjected to lung disease due to the dust and the ammoniumchloride evaporating from the pigsa own extrements and urin.

A 100 kilo pig has less than one square meter (1m2) to live on. Female pigs that are in the process of being fertilized can be held in a fixated position for up to a weeks time. The pigs become stressed, they have trouble with their metabolism due to acidity and show an unnormal behavior: biting on the iron fence that surrounds them and even chewing on each others tails.

The newborn piglets are taken from their natural mother within 5 weeks of their birth. The male piglets are castrated - without a pain soothing injection- at the age of 2 weeks, for the sake of the taste of the meat.

The piglets are then moved to breedin facilities where they are placed with 9-19 unfamiliar piglets where they will be breeded in just one square meter each to live on. There is no grass to rest on or to play in.