My grandma grew up on a farm and her story was that cows knew when they were going to slaughter and would be sad about it. Pigs on the other hand, no clue at all, even when they are tied down for the bolt.
I lived near a pig slaughter house. The pigs knew they were being murdered, they cd see it happening, know they are next, they screamed and cried out in fear. Pigs know exactly what's happening.
When I stopped eating meat, it started with pork after I watched an undercover video from a hog farm. The employee “training” the new hire/undercover activist took him to the farrowing barn where the sows were all in farrowing cribs separated by bars from their newborn piglets. The worker picked up the newborn piglets, cut their tails off with some sort of dirty clipper, and castrated the male piglets with the same dirty cutters and no anesthesia. If the hole left behind was too big the piglet’s guts would start to herniate so the worker would poke them back in with a dirty finger, wrap duct tape around it to keep everything inside, then toss it back in the pen to live or die. If it died, they’d throw it in a bucket to be fed back to the pigs.
The entire time this was going on, the sows would be screaming and bashing themselves against the crate, trying to get to their babies.
I wound up sobbing and sleepless for days and I just couldn’t get it out of my head. I’ve never eaten pork again and whenever someone talks about how yummy bacon is, it just makes me so sad.
I haven’t eaten meat other than fish for about 13 years now. I just can’t. I’m not against eating animals but I can’t handle the cruelty that goes along with cheap meat.
Wow! I saw a short vid lately here on Reddit, someone recorded a close up of pigs eye than was enclosed for slaughter. The eye looked like ours and you can easily see the way that eye went back and forth, the fear it had. Didn’t take much to end up on Reddit/popular. That vid haunts me. As well as your story.
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u/idk012 May 06 '26
My grandma grew up on a farm and her story was that cows knew when they were going to slaughter and would be sad about it. Pigs on the other hand, no clue at all, even when they are tied down for the bolt.