[Wicket]

I’m no fan of PETA, but some of this was pretty nasty stuff. You can use a humane killer that wouldn’t take any more time than whacking the piglets against the floor and then leaving them to die. You can at least use a sharp instrument to dock tails.

I don’t know what to say about the gestation cages. Pigs are notorious for rolling over on their piglets and sometimes for eating them. Hard tellin’ if the sows are really kept in the gestation enclosures for all of their lives and just bred and rebred.

And there’s no excuse, in my humble opinion, for leaving a sow with a prolapsed uterus to die rather than either killing her or providing vet care. Same diff for badly injured piglets. The normal “scrapes of baby pigs”, fine, but either humanely kill or get vet care for worse injuries.

As a Christian, I believe we are obliged to treat animals humanely as good stewards of God’s creation. Killing them for food is fine, but making their lives hell 24/7 prior to then is not right.

Flame on.

[TexasTransplant]

See Post 52 to put your flame out

TT

Past President FFA ( Oregon ) and I love all animals... if you watched them in the wild those pigs would shock you even more... they are ruthless, opportunistic predators and they would kill and eat “You” and not give a whit about your bleeding heart

[netmilsmom]

>>You can use a humane killer that wouldn’t take any more time than whacking the piglets against the floor and then leaving them to die. You can at least use a sharp instrument to dock tails.<<

What kind of humane killer would you like that would not increase the price of my kielbasa? Nature would be worse to deformed piggies.

As for a “sharp instrument”, my friend bred boxers. She bobbed tails with nail clippers right after birth. It’s not too different than circumcision. I just asked my hubby and he doesn’t remember his at all. Bet those pigs don’t remember any of this past their next meal.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We don’t really get the whole story in these pictures. Are trouble situations taken care of whenever the farm hands become aware of them? No way to know. All we see is some isolated shots. We don’t even know what immediately followed. And you know the likes of PETA will lie out their rear ends about it.

[fortheDeclaration]

Amen and amen! Pro.12:10!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Thank you for saying it better then I could.

[Lazamataz]

As a Christian, I believe we are obliged to treat animals humanely as good stewards of God’s creation. Killing them for food is fine, but making their lives hell 24/7 prior to then is not right.

Laz 3:13 And Verily, I command thee, to go out amongst the animals and the fauna, and torture them. Torture the sheep, harass the cows. Pain the horses, beat the rabbits. Waterboard the donkeys, flay the chickens. Spank the monkeys, disembowel the pigs. Selah.

[goat granny]

My father was farm raised at the turn of the 20th century...he always said if your drunk stay away for the pig sty or your dead before sunrise.... Farmers know life city folk don't want to know where their food comes from. Its not hatched in Styrofoam plates. They get rid of anything that could cause an outbreak of disease, nothing lays dead for days if its for human consumption...

The old man that use to butcher our chickens said one day he got a call from someone that had 25 chickens to butcher..he told him he could drop them off the night before as he started at 5 in the morning...he went outside and the idiot with the chickens had put live chickens in plastic bags...needless to say they were dead when he got up...the guy was mad cause he wouldn't process his birds....no one process's an already dead animal, they don't know what killed it....probably a new city farmer. Our chicken went into chicken crates and stayed alive....