[mg39]

I agree completely. If people treated dogs and cats that way, they'd be thrown in prison, and rightly so.

[babyface00]

The issue isn't the manner in which pigs are treated.

The issue is forcing farmers to do so by law.

If this is the "right thing to do", then farmers, by and large, wouldn't have to be forced to do it and wouldn't have to be fined for not doing so.