Do you eat meat? Please read the article, “Boss Hog,” that Jeff Tietz wrote for Rolling Stone in 2006.
Smithfield Foods, the largest and most profitable pork processor in the world, killed 27 million hogs last year. That’s a number worth considering. A slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person. The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each year is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
Read it. Then go buy some responsibly raised dead animals and eat them.
It’s not just pigs, by the way. Animals turned into an industrial product are all treated like shit to make a profit. I want to eat animals, not disease ridden, antibiotic pumped, shit wallowing, mutants.
Enough from me, take it away, Jamie Oliver, tell us about those cheap chickens.
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I was just having this discussion with Ilona yesterday. Free range meat ftw! To save my stomach, I’m not reading the article, but I can only imagine what hellish holocaust we are inflicting upon these animals. As the purported “higher” thinking and reasoning beast on this planet, and having the capacity for sympathy, we have a responsibility to minimize suffering for all living things.
/Pedestal
Comment by Alex Gorstan — March 13, 2008 @ 7:29 am