02-12-2008, 05:49 AM
This kind of thing is what drove me to being a vegan 18 years ago. Pigs have as much intelligence, personality, and need for social interaction as dogs do, and people would be prosecuted ala Michael Vick if we did the same thing to dogs. I could not provide myself any logical argument as to why one kind of animal it was ok to torture, when I would never pay someone to do that to a dog or cat so I could eat it. The more you read on the topic, the more horrifying it gets. Seeing videos on the PETA site was enough to turn a good friend of mine into a vegetarian that day. Ok, off soapbox now 
but this is a topic I feel strongly about, so I couldn't not respond.
but this is a topic I feel strongly about, so I couldn't not respond.