And I am at a loss to see why my comment was one of those removed. It had nothing graphic in it, just referred to the fact that I thought few people would be swayed by video showing pigs headed for slaughter.
Yes, it’s not my site, so whatever, but when you caption tiny baby pigs as bacon, you’re asking for coomment…and then censoring what you’ve solicited even when it’s mild.
What is up with that??

They sound like little Tauntauns.

[OK, I checked the link & re-published your comment, but I'd still call it borderline... - Ed.]

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Thanks.

Hi all–everyone’s already provided so much useful info on farming practices etc., which is great–just want to jump in and add, what someone above was referring to re hens being starved in factory farming, this does in fact exist, though it may seem counterintuitive. It’s a practice related to forced molting; here’s a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_molting

Too many typoes in my previous message – my sincere apologies!

‘riped’ = ripped
‘ot’ = to

Forgot to mention that the beak slicing is also done at breakneck speed by largely unskilled labourers: there is no anaesthetic application, and these babies cannnot drink or eat because the pain is totally unbearable. The death rate from dehydration and starvation and blood loss is horrific. How these farmers can sleep at night beggars belief.

The chicks are also thrown into sacks or crates before being shoved into small cages with sloping wire bottoms so they can’t perch and have to keep moving backwards – extremely exhausting. The floors are sloped to facilitate the rolling foward of eggs laid at a later stage to the front of the cage for easy collection.

Even free range hens have problems: the chicks are sexed at hatching and the males are dumped into sacks to be incinerated. the sexers are paid by the quantity so they work fast. The rate of pay is poor and so usually done by lower economic workers. The chicks suffer in agony becausse they can get broken legs, wings, and are thrown fast into the sacks – many are smothered to death under the bodies of others before the shift is over. then the sacks are emptied into incinerators – and whichever are still alive are then burnt to death. These are babies, for heaven’s sake – how cruel is the profit motive!

In intensive farming the female baby chicks then have their beaks sliced off with a hot electric wire, so that they don’t peck each other in the stressful crowded conditions. It is similar in pain ot having your fingernails riped out of your nailbeds (Professor Marius Barnard’s observation – he was the brother of the late Professor Chris Barnard of first heart transplant fame.)

Cakes don’t need eggs to rise – you only need a reaction between an alkali (baking powder or bicarbonate of soda) and an acid (orange juice, or lemon juice, or cider vinegar, to make the batter lift. See vegan society sites for recipes.

Also think of salmonella, and then the potential food poisoning from chicken.

Truly, go vegan.

Actually there were other commenters up there also that added to the polite and informative discourse. Sheesh. I must give credit where credit is due.

Thank you all.

Ok, I’m done. Night, night.

Oh and the little “bacon-bits” were soooo cute. And teeny! (I never eat pork anyway.)

And JulieRaven too (her comment came up as I was typing mine).