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Animal cruelty always brings out the worst in me…
I honestly want to believe that we’re actually that we humans are indeed superior creatures, and I don’t mean that we should treat all other creatures like shit (as most of us do), but just know the difference of right from wrong. Sure I understand poverty can drive people to terrible things, but it’s still no excuse! I’m not a vegetarian and I happen to like pork, but that doesn’t mean I like to see them treated like this, this is horrible, even if you don’t like pigs and find them disgusting.
Just for the record this is how they transport pigs in most Asian countries.
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6 comments
March 31, 2008
Spooky, i think you are missing the point. In third world countries, the people simply cannot afford the luxury of considering animal suffering at times. They NEED transport such as these as there is no other choice. The way to rectify these kinds of problems is to increase their quality of life and remove systemic poverty in these countries. Alas, I’m sorry to say but the people need to be prioritized over pigs. However, it is true that once the people are taken care of, animal suffering should be taken into due consideration.
April 1, 2008
What do you expect? They can’t afford trucks.
April 2, 2008
Who gave anyone the right to dictate how another person should treat animals? If you don’t like what someone does to pigs, don’t do it yourself. End of story.
April 2, 2008
So just because they cannot afford trucks it’s okay to make someone else suffer. –That’s probably one the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen in my whole life. That’s like saying its okay to perform mulesing on sheeps in Australia … just because the “poor” Australian farmers doesn’t have any other choice than cut the behind of millions of lambs every year.
I don’t deny there are really poor people in our world, but to use it as an argument to be cruel to animals, (or other people for that matter), is an ignorant act to life. Why does the same region still skin cats and boil them while they still are alive? Are they so poor so they can’t even kill animals humanly before they cook them or what? Of cause not! It’s lack of empathy and money maximizing … as usual.
April 3, 2008
We all should try our best to treat animals (humans included) kindly. To that, there isn’t an argument, but we still have to be logical, and humble. Logically, there isn’t another method for these guys to transport the pigs! They aren’t going out of their way to make them suffer. Humbly, we have to realize the AWFUL things we do, in the western world, to animals. The way animals are treated in factory farms and in transport trucks gives us no moral high ground. The difference for us is that we HAVE A CHOICE. We as consumers don’t commit the cruelty ourselves, but nearly all of us consumers of meat are accomplices to it. Animals live horrible lives, for our benefit. They’re stuck in cages. Fed steroids. Transported and oftentimes trampled in overcrowded trucks. Killed sloppily and painfully. We do worse than these guys do, and have the ability to change. Let’s not lecture them before we fix our faults.
May 19, 2008
These pigs are dead why are you worrying?