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Should We Torture Animals To Live?
Proposition 12, in California, to decide on sow crates
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Have you seen the little piggies?
No. Of course, you would never see the crated piggies. They know people would be outraged, saddened, and most of all, stop buying pork, if people knew what sows had to endure.
There is no obvious photo available, so the above photo, instead, shows a sow with what looks to be a mansion of her own — in comparison.
The two-foot by seven-foot gestation crates they cram sows into after rape and forced birth are worse, even than anything in a Dobbs versus sanity state. Or Gilead.
People voted overwhelmingly in California, (2018) and a few other places, to end the cruel practice. But industry powers lobbied hard and have managed to delay at least this long.
People do not wish to torture animals
Because our natural inclination is to love and find all kinds of good things with animals, (and all of nature) it is not difficult whatsoever to see people ignore the problem. That is, people cannot stand…