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Carrie · 08-19-2003, 10:52 PM

The farms do have inspectors and can issue fines and even close down the farm.
The thing is, it's all based on numbers and percentages.

When a photographer goes through and finds *one* pig laying in the aisle for disposal, it makes for a nice heart-wrenching shot.
But the truth of the matter is that thousands upon thousands of pigs are being raised at that farm, and *one* lying in the aisle for an hour waiting for the attendant to get done filling the troths in that building does not a violation make.

There are limits - how many animals can be in each pen, how many dead animals can be in each building (because yes, *gasp*, animals DO kill each other while we're not watching), the length of time between discovery of and removal of a dead animal, etc.

One animal in an aisle for an hour when you're tending to 30,000 pigs and filling 3,000 troths is probably considered 'acceptable'.

Also the PETA and similar folks talk about how these animals are killed without euthanasia, etc; and how only stun guns are used.
That's because these are animals being raised for food; injecting them with euthanasia directly prior to killing them would leave the drug in the body, which would then be passed on to the consumer.

There are a *lot* of people to feed in this country, and there are a *lot* of animals needed to do so. If someone can come up with a more humane way of processing tens of thousands of animals at a time without endangering the humans that will be handling those animals and the ones who will be consuming the meat from those animals, they should speak up.

PETA et al likes to conveniently ignore things like that, and focus only (for example) on the one pig laying in the aisle when there are thousands of healthy pigs in the same building.

08-19-2003, 10:52 PM
Carrie Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Virgin - nee Posts: 3,162	The farms do have inspectors and can issue fines and even close down the farm. The thing is, it's all based on numbers and percentages. When a photographer goes through and finds one pig laying in the aisle for disposal, it makes for a nice heart-wrenching shot. But the truth of the matter is that thousands upon thousands of pigs are being raised at that farm, and one lying in the aisle for an hour waiting for the attendant to get done filling the troths in that building does not a violation make. There are limits - how many animals can be in each pen, how many dead animals can be in each building (because yes, gasp, animals DO kill each other while we're not watching), the length of time between discovery of and removal of a dead animal, etc. One animal in an aisle for an hour when you're tending to 30,000 pigs and filling 3,000 troths is probably considered 'acceptable'. Also the PETA and similar folks talk about how these animals are killed without euthanasia, etc; and how only stun guns are used. That's because these are animals being raised for food; injecting them with euthanasia directly prior to killing them would leave the drug in the body, which would then be passed on to the consumer. There are a lot of people to feed in this country, and there are a lot of animals needed to do so. If someone can come up with a more humane way of processing tens of thousands of animals at a time without endangering the humans that will be handling those animals and the ones who will be consuming the meat from those animals, they should speak up. PETA et al likes to conveniently ignore things like that, and focus only (for example) on the one pig laying in the aisle when there are thousands of healthy pigs in the same building.