Now this farmer’s barn looks super clean though!

The important thing is:
Piggeh Spa!!!!!! Look at that mug!! He are so cute, I could just eat him up!!!
;P
(snickers..)

This is my very first comment on this site after reading for several years. I just want to say that I think the holier-than-thou comments towards vegetarians are overly harsh, and probably misplaced. The comments I read (I read a lot, but not all), were very thoughtful, and, it seemed to me, trying very hard not to be judgmental. In trying to defend their way of eating, though, there was some evidence of a holier-than-thou attitude from some meat eaters.

And why not talk about this here? If vegetarians and animal advocates only talk amongst themselves, no one will ever be educated and nothing will ever change. These are very real and very important issues. Keeping silent about evil you see in the world never helps anyone-it takes a brave person to stand up for the defenseless and voiceless. Maybe someone who has never thought much about factory farming will pick up a copy of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” tonight and begin to think about how food is mass produced in this country.

This piggy is cute, but I repeat what others have said: eating meat is natural, but factory farming is not natural or healthy…for us, the planet, or animals. The human race is better than this…I hope.

Thank you, I love your site, both for the animals and the discussions it brings about.

Now, about those cupcakes…..

What I think some people fail to realize, is that this is not a factory farm. Factory farms sure as heck do not give their piglets the individualized attention that this man does. More than likely, he owns a small farm in England as a way to make a living. Most of these farms are passed from family to family, and are not part of some giant evil corporation. We also don’t even know that the mother pig stays in that small crate all day. I think there are too many people jumping to conclusions here.

To me, this looks like an improvement in the way most farmers treat their pigs, and I think any improvement (no matter how small) should be applauded.

Also, mom pigs are not exactly cuddly and loving to their piglets in the way that dogs or cows or horses are. My guess is that alot of these “Go Veg” commenters (with the exception of a few) are city-folk, and haven’t been around pigs too much to know this.

Ok so this comment is super long, but I just wanted to get that out there. I have no beef with vegans/vegetarians (haha get it?! no beef!), I just decided it wasn’t right for me.

I love it when my piggies take warm baths like that. Maybe the next time a piggy needs a bath I’ll volunteer to sit in the bath with the piggy so they don’t have to worry about the silly flotation device that doesn’t even have a picture of a duck on it.

Now, chickens!

(Phoebe on Friends)