“10/29/2010, 12:46pm EST”
“The sows who perished in Sunday’s fire had spent their entire lives in a miserable cycle of forced impregnation and birth. Confined in metal farrowing crates, they could not turn around, interact with their babies or engage in any of the natural behaviors enjoyed by pigs when left to their own devices. When Sunday’s blaze ripped through their dismal world, they had no other choice but to sit and wait for it, along with their babies. These animals did not choose to spend their lives treated like unfeeling machinery and they certainly did not choose to die in such a horrific manner.”
—Gene Baur (head of Farm Sanctuary), on the fire that destroyed a large pig confinement barn Sunday afternoon in Iowa (via veganmatters) (Source: sparklingsights, via weeptowaterthetrees)
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