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You do have a point. The people at PETA and others show us only what they want us to see. However, the *one* pig out of 30,000 is not exactly accurate. My boyfriend's best friend worked at a chicken "farm" in Iowa, and his only job there was to dispose of the unacceptable chickens. He said that EVERY DAY he picked out 100+ chickens and threw them away, many of them still alive, but not good enough to be sold for food. They were tossed into a pile with thousands of other dead and rotting chickens, and left there to die. A lot of the chickens had to be "pried" off the wire cages because they were squeezed so tight into such a tiny living space. He said at first he couln't stand doing that- killing innocent animals like that, but it only took a couple of weeks before the animals were not animals to him anymore. They were just objects, and it was just a job, and that's where the problem lies in my opinion.
All I know is that if one of my cats were treated in the way most of these "farm" animals are, I would vomit for days, cry for weeks, and have nightmares for years to come.
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