---
title: "Timeline photos Both awe-inspiring and horrifying."
date: 2023-02-18
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
---

# Timeline photos Both awe-inspiring and horrifying.

*February 18, 2023 · Facebook*

::::: {}
::: {}
![](img/2023-02-18-fb-003-img01.webp){style="max-width:100%; margin:1em 0"}
:::

::: {}
Both awe-inspiring and horrifying.\
\
\"Inside the edifice, which resembles the monolithic housing blocks seen across China and stands as tall as the London tower that houses Big Ben, the pigs are monitored on high-definition cameras by uniformed technicians in a NASA-like command center. Each floor operates like a self-contained farm for the different stages of a young pig's life: an area for pregnant pigs, a room for farrowing piglets, spots for nursing and space for fattening the hogs.\
\
Feed is carried on a conveyor belt to the top floor, where it's collected in giant tanks that deliver more than one million pounds of food a day to the floors below through high-tech feeding troughs that automatically dispense the meal to the hogs based on their stage of life, weight and health.\
\
The building, on the outskirts of Ezhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, is hailed as the world's biggest free-standing pig farm, with a second, identical hog high-rise opening soon. The first farm started operating in October, and once both buildings reach full capacity this year, it is expected to raise 1.2 million pigs annually.\"\
\
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230216224736/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/business/china-pork-farms.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20230216224736/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/business/china-pork-farms.html){target="_blank"}
:::
:::::