Saturday, October 14, 2006
Pigs
PIGS
PIGS UNABLE TO EAT
Gail Eisnitz, author of Slaughterhouse:
In 1997, a single hog corporation in Oklahoma reported losses of
420,000 dead hogs--that's 48 hogs dying every hour. These and millions
of other hogs on corporate factory farms didn't die naturally. They
died as a result of the hostile, stressful, disease-promoting
conditions inside these massive factories. Or they died because, in a
business where product uniformity is more important than anything else,
they didn't make weight. Or they died because after permanent
immobilization inside tiny crates for years, they could no longer
stand. Unable to reach their food troughs, they starved to death.
****
DAN PADEN:
I have experience handling and calming animals with broken limbs, the
ability to respond quickly to overturned trucks with hundreds of
trapped, terrified pigs, and am
accustomed to the sight and sound of pigs that are subjected to
repeated shots in the head with frequently malfunctioning captive-bolt
guns.
(PETA employee Paden's application to Smithfield was turned down).
*****
UPTON SINCLAIR IN THE JUNGLE:
(written after his investigation of a
slaughterhouse in Austin Minnesota): The shriek was followed by
another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that
journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs
and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and
lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of
boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came
so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had
done nothing to deserve it.
http://spot.acorn.net/av/avquotes.html
PIG FARMER
You said that pigs make noise
when they are suffering. My experience
is that when they hurt the most
they are the most silent.
PIGS UNABLE TO EAT
Gail Eisnitz, author of Slaughterhouse:
In 1997, a single hog corporation in Oklahoma reported losses of
420,000 dead hogs--that's 48 hogs dying every hour. These and millions
of other hogs on corporate factory farms didn't die naturally. They
died as a result of the hostile, stressful, disease-promoting
conditions inside these massive factories. Or they died because, in a
business where product uniformity is more important than anything else,
they didn't make weight. Or they died because after permanent
immobilization inside tiny crates for years, they could no longer
stand. Unable to reach their food troughs, they starved to death.
****
DAN PADEN:
I have experience handling and calming animals with broken limbs, the
ability to respond quickly to overturned trucks with hundreds of
trapped, terrified pigs, and am
accustomed to the sight and sound of pigs that are subjected to
repeated shots in the head with frequently malfunctioning captive-bolt
guns.
(PETA employee Paden's application to Smithfield was turned down).
*****
UPTON SINCLAIR IN THE JUNGLE:
(written after his investigation of a
slaughterhouse in Austin Minnesota): The shriek was followed by
another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that
journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs
and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and
lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of
boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came
so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had
done nothing to deserve it.
http://spot.acorn.net/av/avquotes.html
PIG FARMER
You said that pigs make noise
when they are suffering. My experience
is that when they hurt the most
they are the most silent.
