02-14-2008, 07:46 AM
From the http://www.handlewithcare.tv/us/ site posted by Damon:
I think most of us can get motion sickness on a ship. So what! As for the “standing in their own waste”. Haven't you heard the expression “Happy as a pig in ****”. I've raised some pigs, and while it is good to have a concrete pen that can be washed out, they really don't mind some sh*t. Also “endure searing temperatures, often over 75 degrees Fahrenheit”. I hope that was a typo. I don't set my AC below 78. As for the “struggle to walk as they are roughly unloaded” etc. If that stuff bothers you, don't go to any commercial animal husbandry farm operation. Cattle are the same way. They scream and buck when forced into pens for any purpose, vet work, loading, whatever. The movie on the site might alarm those who have spent their lives unaware of where their food comes from. Working with pigs or cows or probably any larger domestic animal is hard dangerous work and the animals will sometimes fight and make noise as you have to make them go where you want them to go. It's all part of life. I gather form the site and links on it that the ultimate aim is vegan for us all.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
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Hundreds of pigs are forced together in dark, cramped conditions, first on a truck, then a ship. They are hungry and exhausted, waiting long periods for food. Motion sickness causes vomiting. Standing in their own waste, the pigs endure searing temperatures, often over 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Those animals that cannot endure die, from stress related illnesses, diseases caught onboard or simply being crushed. Those that live struggle to walk as they are roughly unloaded into cramped and filthy concrete pens at the slaughterhouse.
I think most of us can get motion sickness on a ship. So what! As for the “standing in their own waste”. Haven't you heard the expression “Happy as a pig in ****”. I've raised some pigs, and while it is good to have a concrete pen that can be washed out, they really don't mind some sh*t. Also “endure searing temperatures, often over 75 degrees Fahrenheit”. I hope that was a typo. I don't set my AC below 78. As for the “struggle to walk as they are roughly unloaded” etc. If that stuff bothers you, don't go to any commercial animal husbandry farm operation. Cattle are the same way. They scream and buck when forced into pens for any purpose, vet work, loading, whatever. The movie on the site might alarm those who have spent their lives unaware of where their food comes from. Working with pigs or cows or probably any larger domestic animal is hard dangerous work and the animals will sometimes fight and make noise as you have to make them go where you want them to go. It's all part of life. I gather form the site and links on it that the ultimate aim is vegan for us all.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.
S. FL
Big Islander to be.