The driver of a semi-truck misjudged a curve along the Ohio Turnpike and flipped his rig on its side, spilling the contents of the trailer across the road and the ditch. His cargo was 1,900 screaming baby piglets who were in the process of being shipped to the industrial farm that would be their home for the rest of their short lives, but now several hundred of them were dead or badly wounded and the rest were running all around in their terror and confusion. The owner of the pigs arrived on the scene while the police were trying to direct traffic around the frightened animals and while a television crew was setting up their camera. Bodycam footage on one of the officers showed the owner pleading with the officer: "“Is there any way we can tell them, for their safety, they can’t be here filming this because animal rights people love… (long pause) We’re treating these pigs right, but they take this the wrong way.”
This was, of course, a tragic accident, The owner's request was not completely unreasonable, and the police did rescue as many piglets as they could. But they also sought to protect the meat industry by keeping the press at bay. And those pigs that survived still went to the industrial farm and then to the slaughterhouse six months later – which was the same fate that 140 million pigs faced that year in the US.
Our source for this meme is Sentient Media.
This was, of course, a tragic accident, The owner's request was not completely unreasonable, and the police did rescue as many piglets as they could. But they also sought to protect the meat industry by keeping the press at bay. And those pigs that survived still went to the industrial farm and then to the slaughterhouse six months later – which was the same fate that 140 million pigs faced that year in the US.
Our source for this meme is Sentient Media.
Meme, Pigs, Piglets, Transport, Industrial Farm, Interstate, Ohio