EDIT: changed title to reflect that the original place saying the quote was the Hog Farm Management magazine rather than the Washington Post. The photo itself is from an article in the Washington post
You can stop buying industrially produced meat today.
But how am i supposed to enjoy breakfast without my shit eating animal that has never seen the sunlight?
The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated as, a valuable piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I mean they do that with people, so why not pigs too?
Yeah, I feel like people trying to humanize livestock aren’t familiar with how capitalists treat most people. There are preschool children mining toxic metals we need for our cell phone batteries. We know this, and while not one of us is in a position to change it ourselves, we all collectively look the other way because we want cell phones.
It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we feel powerless to fix it and we benefit from the atrocity. If you want people to engage, you have to make people believe they can help. And then they actually have to help somehow.
I thought this was an Animal Farm reference about people at first anyway.
This line of thinking applies not only to individual animals but to how we’re managing our biosphere as well. Humans allocate more land (27%) for ‘livestock’ than any other purpose on this planet: How the world’s land is used: total area sizes by type of use and cover
It applies in many places. After all, H.R. stands for Human Resources, and that doesn’t mean Resources for the Human Workers.
This title is a bit misleading, this isn’t the Washington post saying this, they are just reporting a hog farm manager having said this in 1976
Updated the title to clarify. Wasn’t a random hog farm manager, Hog Farm Management is a magazine read by hog farmers.
Here’s the actual magazine page. It’s not as readable so I used an article from the Washington Post talking about that:
Hes not wrong. I’ve worked in a place like that and thats how you think day to day. Nothing wrong with that.
what magic white powder are you on
