I don’t understand why that one gets to people. Instant. No pain. Compare that to a pig momma that gets her little piglets taken away and squeels in desperation for hours. Give me the shredder over this every day.
And an entire life in captivity, in cages too small for you and stuck with other pigs. No hope to escape this hellscape, no hope of having it easier. This is months and then years of depression, stress, everything.
The concept of being an animal in these prisons sends me into an unbearable existential dread.
I think, it’s a matter of it being a lot more tangible. Whether momma pig really squeals in desperation, you kind of have to find out by watching a video. Or rather even multiple videos, since it might just be one particular momma pig. Hell, it might only be one particular farmer who takes the piglets away. If you want to believe that it surely isn’t as bad, there’s plenty opportunities.
With chick culling on the other hand, there’s a word for it, even a Wikipedia article for it. You can see a still image of one of the machines and it’s pretty obvious what it does. And that we have a machine for it also tells you that it certainly isn’t just one farmer doing it, but rather happening at an industrial scale.
I don’t understand why that one gets to people. Instant. No pain. Compare that to a pig momma that gets her little piglets taken away and squeels in desperation for hours. Give me the shredder over this every day.
And an entire life in captivity, in cages too small for you and stuck with other pigs. No hope to escape this hellscape, no hope of having it easier. This is months and then years of depression, stress, everything. The concept of being an animal in these prisons sends me into an unbearable existential dread.
I think, it’s a matter of it being a lot more tangible. Whether momma pig really squeals in desperation, you kind of have to find out by watching a video. Or rather even multiple videos, since it might just be one particular momma pig. Hell, it might only be one particular farmer who takes the piglets away. If you want to believe that it surely isn’t as bad, there’s plenty opportunities.
With chick culling on the other hand, there’s a word for it, even a Wikipedia article for it. You can see a still image of one of the machines and it’s pretty obvious what it does. And that we have a machine for it also tells you that it certainly isn’t just one farmer doing it, but rather happening at an industrial scale.