Wait a second, which farmers are you talking about when you basically say they give a damn about pig welfare? Because the last time I checked, something like 95% of the farm animals consumed in this country come from FACTORY FARMS, you know, those industrialized warehouses where animals are deprived of sunlight, soil, and even MOVEMENT. "Intellectually occupied" is a joke. There is evidence to suggest that the pigs go literally insane due to their intensive confinement. I don't see much difference between what Vick did to a few dogs and what essentially goes IGNORED behind the doors of profit-driven corporate farms by the MILLIONS per year.