I came across this post by a member of Veggieboards who goes by phi in responce to a previous post:
You are probably going to be less outraged by a murder out of jealousy (which is a more "natural" occurrence) than you would be if someone held millions of women in captivity, had them raped, their newborns taken away and put in a dark box for a few years to lie in their own excrement and eat industrial waste, then had them strapped onto a conveyor belt by one foot, their throats slit (sometimes less than perfectly), dunked them in boiling water and then started cutting their limbs off to sell them to you.
phi then showed me his blog, on which I found an amazing post. And who am I not to show this to you?
Today is the best day of my life: Fresh Air Day! I’m not sure what happened to this planet—the only home I have known—before I was born. None of us have memories of what was before the Dark Age. Before today we did not even refer to it as dark, simply because we had never seen daylight. All we knew was that, for one reason or another, we were growing up in little stalls within a big, dark structure, barely able to move at all. We would eat the same bland food every day and wonder if this had once been a world teeming with lush vegetation producing succulent fruit in abundance and if so, what could have caused the cataclysm that forced us to rely on this gray, mealy guck for sustenance. We had never seen anyone truly healthy, but judging by the purulent lesions on our bodies and the constant visceral pain, it did not take a genius to figure out our diet was less than optimal. There were thousands of us in that building, and our excrement was removed only to the extent necessary to keep the concentration of ammonia in the air at a level that would allow the bulk of us to survive, albeit uncomfortably.
Today is different. Early in the morning, we all had to leave and board a vehicle. There seemed to be a considerable measure of urgency involved. Fortunately I was one of the last ones to enter the cage-like trailer used to transport us and as a result am located near the top. I’m not even sure the ones at the bottom will survive the trip. I saw the sky today for the first time in my life. It is blue, but this world’s sun is so bright it literally hurts our eyes. The true blessing of it all, however, is the air: no ammonia, no methane, less carbon dioxide than we are used to, just a faint hint of hydrocarbons, most likely fuel. I never knew life could be this great! I can’t wait to see our destination and the wonders it may hold for us.
The planet is Earth. The year is A.D. 2010. We are pork. Resistance is futile.
Wow. This seriously hits the hammer on the nail. Don't you think it's about time we try to change this? Sadly, this is the life of a poor pig forced to grow to maturity in today's factory farms. It makes things seem even more horrible when we can put the feelings to them.
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What's even more sad is that description of life from factory farm to slaughterhouse trip could apply almost exactly to each animal commonly used for food. Cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, and who knows what else. They all receive pretty much the same treatment. I will have been a veggie for a full year this November! And I switched not a moment too soon.
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