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Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway(traumatized by sausage-factory-bound pigs)
Der Spiegal ^ | 09/11/08

Posted on 09/11/2008 8:45:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway

The sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs.

A vegetarian woman driving down a motorway in Germany was so traumatized at the sight of a truck loaded with pigs that she lost control of her vehicle and careered into another truck, which was also filled with pigs, police said.

"The woman found herself driving next to a large pig transport truck and the sight of the pitiful animals made her feel so sick that she jerked her steering wheel and started swerving," police in the western town of Gütersloh said in a statement released on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; foodsupply; justice; pig; sausage; trafficaccident; vegetarian
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1 posted on 09/11/2008 8:45:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We must know: were the pigs wearing lipstick?


2 posted on 09/11/2008 8:46:11 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


3 posted on 09/11/2008 8:46:53 PM PDT by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.stopsidsnow.com)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Go, meat!...”


4 posted on 09/11/2008 8:48:10 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: diamond6

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


5 posted on 09/11/2008 8:49:27 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: RichInOC

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


6 posted on 09/11/2008 8:49:52 PM PDT by 9422WMR (When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


7 posted on 09/11/2008 8:52:08 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
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...


8 posted on 09/11/2008 8:52:41 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (What can I say? It's a gift. And I didn't get a receipt, so I can't exchange it.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
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. .
9 posted on 09/11/2008 8:53:08 PM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: 6SJ7
Must have spent a fortune for car wash.:-)
10 posted on 09/11/2008 8:53:29 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: Alex Murphy
One of my favorite places in El Paso, affectionatly known as 'the pink pig'


11 posted on 09/11/2008 8:55:09 PM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
To me being a Vegetarian means saying yes to things, like Meat.
12 posted on 09/11/2008 8:55:58 PM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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


13 posted on 09/11/2008 8:57:19 PM PDT by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: diamond6

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.


14 posted on 09/11/2008 9:10:14 PM PDT by Ilya Mourometz
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To: mlocher
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.
15 posted on 09/11/2008 9:16:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: Ilya Mourometz

Factory farms?


16 posted on 09/11/2008 9:28:49 PM PDT by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.stopsidsnow.com)
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To: diamond6

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


17 posted on 09/11/2008 9:29:45 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

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.


18 posted on 09/11/2008 9:30:54 PM PDT by exit82 (The only person that could get me to vote for John McCain is Sarah Palin -God bless her)
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To: Pinkbell

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


19 posted on 09/11/2008 9:31:45 PM PDT by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.stopsidsnow.com)
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To: diamond6

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.


20 posted on 09/11/2008 9:34:48 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
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