September 2007, Spain  Activists from Animal Equality have
carried out Spain's first Open Rescue of six piglets from a
factory farm. Without concealing their identities and in broad
daylight, the activists gave a new life to these small
creatures, who were otherwise destined to experience a life of
horror, suffering and death.  The rescue team only had space for
six piglets. Sadly, their mother and the other pigs on the
factory farm had to be left behind. They were sleeping on
concrete floors in piles of their own waste. They were all
dirty, some sick, some near death. They will never see the light
of the sun, except when they are trucked to the slaughterhouse.
They will never experience freedom.  Once out of the farm on the
way home, the six rescued piglets were calm and even sleeping
peacefully. When they arrived at their new home they were able
to enjoy the light of the sun for the first time in their short
lifes. They were able to walk through the grass, so different to
the concrete that was all they had