Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway(traumatized by sausage-factory-bound pigs)

Der Spiegal ^ | 09/11/08

[CE2949BB]

We must know: were the pigs wearing lipstick?

[diamond6]

I have to admit, that I too always feel sad when I drive by those trucks carrying animals to slaughter houses. Call me nuts, what can I say.

[RichInOC]

“Go, meat!...”

[LukeL]

Yeah, but then you eat a burger and feel better.

[9422WMR]

People Eating Tasty Animals!!!
I rest my case........

[6SJ7]

I remember being stuck behind a truck carrying hogs. Bits of straw, dust, and who knows what were wafting over my car in a kind of smog. It was a warm day, and the smell was ... well it was hard to breathe.

[Alex Murphy]

A vegetarian woman driving down a motorway in Germany ...

Thank God she lives in Germany. No one on the streets would be safe if she was driving in Kansas City...

[mnehring]

Sometimes you really have to love Der Spiegel.
...but we were unable to ascertain anything about the state of the pig's health," police said. .

[TigerLikesRooster]

Must have spent a fortune for car wash.:-)

[mnehring]

One of my favorite places in El Paso, affectionatly known as 'the pink pig'

[mnehring]

To me being a Vegetarian means saying yes to things, like Meat.

[mlocher]

I am not buying this story. There are no vegetarians in Germany!

[Ilya Mourometz]

Me too. Eating meat is fine (I’m a meat eater), but factory farms are a great evil. Hope Matt Scully will have some influence over McCain-Palin on this; his book, Dominion, is one of the most moving things I’ve ever read.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Don't be so sure. Any society has tiny population of unbelievable hardcore nuts. She must be one of them, judging from how she reacted to pigs in a truck.

[diamond6]

Factory farms?

[Pinkbell]

Me too. :-( I’m not a vegetarian, but I love animals.

[exit82]

Here in Southern Delaware, we are the broiler chicken capital of the world.

Everyday you see trailer trucks carrying cages of chickens bound for the three processing plants in our county. These chickens are grown locally, and it is a huge business here.
Three large plants require an untold number of chickens to be delivered everyday.

People have jobs like “eviscerator process foreman”, etc.

When we see these trucks on the highway, my wife can’t bear to look at them.

So I provide her with a running commentary, like:

“Oh look, honey, the chickens think they are going for a ride. Yeah, their first and last ride!”

” There’s tomorrow’s Chicken McNuggets!”

” Hey, chickens, guess what’s for supper? YOU!”

Or: when we are buying packaged chickens at the supermarket: “Look, honey. We saw this chicken on the truck on Monday! I thought he looked familiar.”

Thank God she loves me.

[diamond6]

I”m not a vegetarian either, but I FLAT OUT refuse to eat lamb. No way no how.

[Pinkbell]

I agree with you. I won’t eat lamb or veal. If I ever went to China, I would never eat dog or cat. The thought of it makes me sick.