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My wife was quite sad when I suggested to her that "this little piggie went to market" was in fact the farmer taking the pig to the market to be butchered, and
by cduzz 2y ago
My wife was quite sad when I suggested to her that "this little piggie went to market" was in fact the farmer taking the pig to the market to be butchered, and that "this little piggie went wee wee wee all the way home" was probably a piglet taken from its family to replace the "now big enough to sell" pig....
- 082349872349872 2y agoIf you wish to enjoy sausage, it's probably best not to enquire into how swine are raised and kept in our time.
- cduzz 2y agoI think she'd always imagined a pig with a hat and overalls walking down the street to buy the sunday newspaper...
- lnsru 2y agoMy colleague was transported to mental health institution with an escort of police straight from the office. And was kept there for 2 weeks. People are treated like trash by other people. I don’t want to think about industrial animal farming. It’s probably the worst of the worst.
- krisoft 2y ago> My colleague was transported to mental health institution with an escort of police straight from the office. And was kept there for 2 weeks. People are treated like trash by other people. How does one thought here follow from the other? I’m not saying that there aren’t egregious atrocities commited in the name of mental health treatment, but it seems that you don’t even attempt to argue that that happened in the case. With some people in some situations the kindest and most humane thing imaginable is to transport them to a mental health institution and keep them there for 2 weeks. The fact that we have that as an option demonstrates that humans care about each other and are not treating each other as trash. The baseline, without any systems in place, is that we leave people suffering a mental episode wreak havoc on their own life and the lives of those around them. Now that would be treating people like trash. As i say it is perfectly possible that your colleague suffered an injustice, or were more harshly treated than would have been possible or reasonable. But then say that, don’t just insinuate it.
- skeeter2020 2y agowas he then butchered and served to clueless and content consumers? I don't get the connection.
- mp05 2y agoSupport your local farmer.
- arsenico 2y agoThere’s industrial farming, and then there’s farming.
- com2kid 2y agoMy 3 year old recently picked up a sausage and asked "did this used to be a pig?" "Yes, that used to be a pig." "OK!" and popped it into his mouth. Kids really don't care.
- latentcall 2y agoSome don’t, some do. A colleagues daughter who is 4 had the realization that chicken is… chickens, which are cute and funny and nice to pet. She won’t eat chicken now. The colleague keeps chickens for eggs so she’s exposed to them on a daily basis, so maybe that’s where the difference lies. A pig isn’t a common animal kept in a household or even most backyard farms so a child might not have much exposure to them. Just a thought, dunno.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoMy 3yo realized that sausages were pigs. He asked does that mean pigs eat sausages made of humans? Can WE eat sausages made of humans if we run out of sausages made of pigs?
- com2kid 2y agoOh we've gone over the complete list of what eats what including all the bidirectional cases towards the top of the food chain. Sometimes he'll think up of a pairing and ask me to check online which animal eats the other. Yesterday it was praying mantis Ed VS spiders. Turns out that can go either way depending on the spider.
- com2kid 2y agoOur neighbor has chickens. We sometimes help out with the eggs. One day my son asked if we can go eat one of our neighbor's chickens. I had to explain the difference between egg laying chickens and meat chickens. Also I explained that it is rude to eat your neighbors' animals without asking first.
- skeeter2020 2y ago