I missed the deadline on an alert to recommend tougher fire building codes for Manitoba’s farm animal facilities but want to bring up the issue of fires in pig confinement operations (factory farms).
First, could pork eaters reading this look at this photo and think about the sow shown here spending her life imprisoned in this gestation crate, a crate so small that she cannot even turn around or lay down comfortably.
Can I then ask you to imagine her being burned alive, unable to even attempt an escape, trapped in terror and agony along with thousands of other tormented sentient beings, beings that are smarter than your coddled dogs?
Most will likely opt out of watching the video. Most will just go on smiling, continuing to sport cast iron blinkers while colluding in atrocity.
Over 30,000 pigs burned alive in Manitoba in 2008.
Further Reading:
Some coverage on a related topic, swine flu and factory farming (another down side to immoral eating)
Can Swine Flu be Blamed on Industrial Farming, May 1, 2009, Scientific American
From Wired Science, Swine Flu Ancestor born on U.S. Factory Farms, May 1, 2009, Wired Science
From Grist, April 30, 2009, New Scientist: Swine flu stems from virus that evolved in U.S.
From Times online, After much effort, Man created swine flu, April 30, 2009
From Grain, A food system that kills: Swine flu is meat industry’s latest plague, April 28, 2009
Guardian.co.uk, The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry’s monstrous power, April 27, 2009 by Mike Davis
Grist Magazine, Swine flu outbreak linked to Smithfield factory farms, April 25, 2009
The Huffington Post, Swine Flu – Nature Biting Back at Industrial Farm Production? April, 25, 2009
Wow, great post. I can’t watch that video right now because I hate crying at work. Did you read about the 800,000 chickens who died in a fire recently at a chicken farm? Despicable. No one cares.
s.