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Watch: Buttercup the pig used in SAFE protest outside Parliament calling for ban on farrowing crates

July 26, 2018

Animal rights group SAFE wanted to remind of Labour's election promise to ban the use of the crates. (Source: Other)

A pig has joined protests outside Parliament this morning for a animal rights cause - protesting the use of farrowing crates.

Buttercup the pig was brought outside the Beehive as a reminder of Labour's election promise to ban the use of the crates, which are used by farmed sows for breeding.

The metal crates, also known as gestation crates, are designed to be large enough only for sows to stand up, lie down and take one step forward or backwards.

Today's protest comes months after animal cruelty activists delivered a 113,000-strong signed petition calling for Government action against the use of the crates.

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