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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

I'm constantly surprised at the general public's ignorance of the conditions of farming and simultaneous confidence that vegans are extremist loons.

[–] Sylver 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“All our pigs are 100% pig fed for that double pig juiced in goodness!”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

mmmm, sounds pig

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you want transmissible spongiform encephalopathies? Because that's how you get transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

sounds like there's good profit to be made before we get to that point

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does no one remember Mad Cow disease? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I am constantly amazed at how little people remember of even very recent history

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't it prionic

Don'tcha think

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Bush banned testing for mad cow disease in the US because he didn't want the panic. The American public was widely gaslit about it. You're the person that didn't take the crazy pills

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pigs will eat anything, including each other and humans, if given the chance. Still shouldn’t be helping them in this endeavour

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The title of this article is actually underselling it. They specifically give them disease-infected piglets and their feces

Employees can be seen removing the intestines of dead, disease-infected piglets and mixing them with piglet feces in a blender — a mixture to be fed to the adult breeding pigs — causing one worker to gag.

The practice, called “feedback,” is common in the pork business (or “controlled oral exposure” in industry jargon). The slurry of pig poop and parts is often fed to new female breeding pigs

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines

[–] BadAdvice 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Farmers specifically have to be careful when sows give birth because they will sometimes just eat the piglets. But yeah, let's make this about people forcing pigs to eat other pigs lmao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Stuff like that usually is worsened by captivity, but the title of this article is actually underselling it. They specifically give them disease-infected piglets and their feces

Employees can be seen removing the intestines of dead, disease-infected piglets and mixing them with piglet feces in a blender — a mixture to be fed to the adult breeding pigs — causing one worker to gag.

The practice, called “feedback,” is common in the pork business (or “controlled oral exposure” in industry jargon). The slurry of pig poop and parts is often fed to new female breeding pigs

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines

[–] Dasnap 9 points 1 year ago

Mad Cow Disease 2: Pig Edition

[–] MrJameGumb 8 points 1 year ago

You can read the article here

Do so at your own risk

I had to stop about halfway through...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So this is what they mean by "natural"...

[–] ghostface 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not natural at all,bit as with most things you can vote with your dollar and find humane farms and buy their products

Either thw big box stores will change or tgw meat industry will change. Awareness is the first step. Action is the next step

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see, this time I'll go to a "humane" mass murder shack, instead of my usual mass murder factory for my food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Either thw big box stores will change or tgw meat industry will change.

Neither will change as long as capitalism is in place, they have no reason to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's exactly what lions do!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We need the chickens from squidbillies with like 16 wings that secrete ranch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't want to login to youtube to watch that, you can also watch that here

[–] Someboynumber5reborn 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why I shop local farms, I can't stand the evil in the meat industry and I know I'm not strong enough to become vegan so it's the next best thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're strong enough, dude. It's not as hard as people make it out to be. Just do some research and give it a go.

Rainbow Plant Life is an amazing channel for vegan recipes. Give her a watch or two - won't regret it. :)

[–] oolong 0 points 1 year ago

Local farms do the same horrible shit. Its all the same slaughterhouse.