Author Topic: Just heard two shocking stories. (Read 7003 times)

kbomgte · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2010, 11:11:16 am »

Shocking as it may be , dropping the pigs down through a hatch is the only other way down unless carrying them . As pigs can walk upstairs but not down(they can't see where they are going).

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2010, 03:18:07 pm »

My large black walks down stairs, v e r y , v e ry s l o w l y .

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2010, 03:18:36 pm »

How did he get them up there in the first place and why???

suziequeue · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2010, 05:50:14 pm »

He most likely was able to carry them upstairs as piglets and then they just grew and grew I guess.

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2010, 08:33:05 am »

Still cant understand the logic.

suziequeue · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2010, 04:34:30 pm »

No - it does seem odd.

I thought it was the other way round - livestock on the ground floor and then humans sleeping above benefitting from the rising heat of the livestock below (and the smells no doubt but....)

Susanna

kbomgte · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2010, 08:13:26 pm »

It was the other way around to protect and keep pigs away from damp conditions

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suziequeue · « **Reply #22 on:** June 30, 2010, 09:48:26 pm »

Oh right - well there's the answer :-)

Castle Farm · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2010, 08:48:15 am »

There was an artical in the Sunday Times last week.

80% of slaughterhouses inthe UK have a torture animal policy.
Covert cameras were used and showed workers torturing pigs with the electric stunning tongs and some pigs hung still alive (un stunned) going into the gutting process.

This was reported just last weekend, so where are all these animal welfair people...Sitting on thier arses drinking coffee no doubt.

jameslindsay · « **Reply #24 on:** July 01, 2010, 08:52:05 am »

I just hope that that figure is wrong. How disgusting and alarming is that? 1% of slaughterhouses abusing their position is 1% too much.

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #25 on:** July 01, 2010, 09:21:51 am »

I doubt the number is as high as that. Not stunning pigs before slaughtering would be counter productive, and take longer to get a conscious pig slung into the chain etc.

However 1 pig tortured is 1 pig too many and these people should be prosectued. Also what about the vets who are in the slaughter house at all times (well here they are), are they party to this too?