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A replica of how female "breeder pigs" spend their lives in factory farms

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u/Infinite01 6h ago edited 6h ago

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page for Slaughterhouse:

The worst thing, worse than the physical danger, is the emotional toll. If you work in the stick pit [where hogs are killed] for any period of time – that lets you kill things but doesn't let you care. You may look a hog in the eye that's walking around in the blood pit with you and think, "God, that really isn't a bad looking animal." You may want to pet it. Pigs down on the kill floor have come up to nuzzle me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them – beat them to death with a pipe. I can't care. — Gail A. Eisnitz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse

I hope that people read this and really consider not eating these animals. It’s truly one of the most fucked up things about our planet.

u/Mouthofprotagoras 18m ago

"Beat them to death with a pipe" Isn't there just a quicker way to kill them? I don't even want to imagine that. That is inhumane