Hi Guys
A dog got into the pig pen late Monday night.We heard them screaming and chased it off. The pigs were in shock but seemed OK. Next morning we could see how badly Mrs Porkinmore had been hurt, she was on the ground and I thought Mr Porkinmore and Barge Arse were eating her!. They were licking her wounds, she was in pain and not happy about it, they put their feet on her to stop her struggling and worked at the wounds. When they were finished they forced her to get to her feet by gently pushing and lifting her. She had a drink and a feed and lay back down, they then pushed hay over her and let her alone for a few hours, then the whole process started again. I have not treated her wounds as they are looking really good from the attentions of Mr Porkinmore and Barge Arse. Pretty amazing animals, probably not something we are suppose to know, else the pig industry wont be able to justify its treatment of these intelligent social animals. As long as we think they are meat on legs and put our efforts to more "intelligent" animals worthy of our attention they will continue to keep these beutiful loving animals in terrible conditions. Dont get me wrong, I would eat anyone of my pigs, but while they are with me they will eat and live like kings and it will be a quick clean death, who can ask for more? (I would be pretty happy if someone offered me that!). Poultry and pigs are denyed the basic charter of animal rights as set out by the RSPCA, the RSPCA admit that this is true but are politicaly bound up, people want reasonably cheap meat and because there are so many of us it cant happen unless these animals are treated badley. I had someone have the gall to tell me that by showing poultry I was exploiting them for my own pleasure!..My response.."go home, eat your supermarket roast, when you have finished look up these 10 web sites..then come back and tell me you did not vomit up your meat.Its a very hard area and we are all hypocrites in the end, when the chooks are not laying I have brought supermarket eggs and by necesity go for the cheapest. Under the glare of the supermarket lighting I have brought pork on speacil, thinking about the nice stir fry it will make, even vegitarians can be hypocrites..where did you get your leather belt?. Whats the feelings of others on this matter?, its not cut and dry, someone can think they are not contributing to animal cruety yet put blood and bone on their veggie patch.I have seen my daughter cry when a lion killed a wilder beast calf on the nature channel (did not like to tell her she was eating her steak dinner at the time!). Difficult to know where you stand isnt it?
cheers essie