Stained green with a topical solution to prevent skin infections, sows await artificial insemination at Fazenda Seis Amigos breeding farm in Tapurah, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The facility, which houses 13,500 sows, is the largest piglet farm in Brazil, supplying swine farms contracted with food giant BRF. The international conglomerate supplies nearly a third of the 4 million tons of pork produced by Brazil each year, with nearly half the country’s exports sold to China. Each sow at Seis Amigos averages around eleven piglets per birth and is used as a breeding sow for two to three years before her fertility drops and she is sent to the slaughterhouse.
