Sadly, despite it being delicious, pork products like ham and bacon almost invariably come from a reality that would be horrifying to most people if they actually witnessed it.
Pigs in the majority of farms in NZ and abroad are treated with extreme and unnecessary cruelty. They are treated in ways that no reasonable person would treat any animal, yet they are as sensitive, sentient and intelligent as dogs [who are also often treated with absolute cruelty by many evil and ignorant people].
I say young people should be educated about what really goes on in the production of the meat they eat so they can make an informed decision about whether or not to actively support the torture of thinking, feeling creatures like pigs.
Would any of you take Babe [from the movie], put him in a cage that he couldn't turn around in and leave him in the dark to suffer for his entire life before then lining him up with his neighbours to be killed one by one as the next one in line watches?
Check out the
SAFE site to see how you can help and to read about how Mike King turned from promoting pork to promoting animal welfare once he visited a pig farm in NZ.
Mike King's 45-minute ordeal of pig horror included seeing:
• a dead female pig inside a sow stall
• lame, crippled pigs and others that could barely stand
• pigs either extremely depressed or highly distressed
• bar biting, scars and injuries
• pigs excessively frothing at the mouth
• a lack of clean drinking water and food.
Can you identify which pigs are happy and which pigs are
suffering needlessly so you can have bacon, pork chops, ham, etc?
It's difficult to face
unpleasant facts that
inconvenience you, but can you continue to encourage such
cruelty to continue by buying and eating
inhumane pork products?
If you simply can't give up pork, try encouraging your family to buy kindly farmed pork products like from
Freedom Farms
