Britain has halted pig-meat imports from Catalonia after Spain reported its first African swine fever cases in over 30 years.
- December 13
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So... pigs! (a thread)
I want to do a full post about them soon, and what we're planning on doing with them, but, some background:
Homesteading is trendy right now, if you didn't know. There are influencers making entire six figure or higher salaries making small-scale farming look cute, and other factors -- like increasing cost of living in cities, the ability to do remote work for some people, disillusionment with "society" or fears of climate collapse -- are pushing a lot of people to try to buy land and get on the bandwagon (or get on the bandwagon in their small suburban lots). It's wonderful that more people are interested in producing their own food and evaluating our reliance on industrial, extractive food systems, but if we're being honest, lots of these people are doing this without a psychological basis for intense physical labor, consistent work ethic (i.e: working around the clock and not quitting or skipping chores because it's cold or they're hard or you're sick or whatever), and appropriate ethics around animals as being sentient living beings deserving of care but who also are a critical part of a whole and who ultimately serve a purpose (usually food production) and instead see animals as accessories, pets, or status or novelty items.
One of the very unfortunate side effects of this is that lots and lots of people are purchasing and then breeding livestock... and then deciding that they can't actually kill them because that would be *awful*, continuing to breed them, and ending up in basically a cycle of overwhelm where without new animals coming in the novelty is worn off to the point where they don't want to do it anymore, so they keep breeding them, but then they're overwhelmed and cannot provide adequate care or afford all of the animals they have.
Livestock "rescues" are popping up left and right, diverting resources to "saving" these animals, all while many rural communities are still impoverished (despite that their tax base is increasing with upper middle class people flooding their housing markets) and without decent food.
There's a solution to this: actually producing food. We could also, then, divert some of this food to urban communities who are also without food.
The vegan debate is enormous (and I cover some of my thoughts in this post: ) but also a little ridiculous. We can pretend all we want that a vegan diet reliant on industrial food systems is actually a diet that *doesn't cause harm*, or that farming without commercial inputs is possible without animals (it isn't) or that somehow wild-sourcing all of our food is feasible in any ecosystem in the US (it isn't -- not at scale, as in, this isn't a meaningful lifestyle change any large percentage of us could make without *any* agriculture, and this isn't a lifestyle that's been lived in a very, very long time regardless of how people wish to categorize Indigenous peoples as "hunter gatherers").
So this is how we're orienting to this issue:
What we have capacity for, we're attempting to procure from these failed homesteads, where they are "calling it" and attempting to dump all of their animals.
The goal is to provide a high-welfare environment, correct any health issues, leverage the animals' instincts to support the land (i.e: pigs love rooting and can help decompact soil and clear rocky areas, turkeys and chickens help with pest control and can consume most cover crops that we plant in garden areas too small for ruminants, etc.) and then to humanely dispatch them when it is time and feed our community (or sometimes our omnivorous or carnivorous allies, like our or community members' dogs, cats, etc. that also support similar land regeneration projects through guarding or other contributions).
University of researchers found evidence in a -era animal cemetery in Egyptian port city Berenike that high-ranking military officials imported rhesus macaque from as status symbol around 2,000 years ago.
The archaeological study revealed that 40% of the monkey burials contained luxury items and companion like and , suggesting Roman elites treated their exotic pets with care and even gave them pets of their own.
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Anne Claire was going to be euthanised, just because she wasnt born perfect in the breeders eyes! Thanks to Arthurs Acres, she has got her life back. Credit: arthursacres (IG)
A proposal by Cranswick to gain retrospective planning permission for its pig farm was turned down by Breckland Council. Find out more:
Celebrity PigsFormer lab pigs experience their first taste of freedom Credit: farmanimalrefuge (IG)
more than twice the amount of per human in relative to .
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the saddest thing is that no one will oppose it. they're just asking for shorter drives to the .
danish society for the protection of animals, , is campaigning for better gas in the .
people cry how sad it is for pigs while they've hardly finished eating their .
If you could, would you give them a different ending Clip spotted on givemeyourvoice (IG)
Sunda Clouded are agile ambush of , wild and mouse deer in and . deforestation is a huge threat to these . Help them when you palmoildetect
Funny animal names, endangered horses born, pumpkins for pigs, and crow carries ALL of the cookies.
Did you know that a factory-farmed pig sees the sun for less than 1% of their life See the truth at hiddenlivesofanimals.com
No 'food' is worth taking a life.
: Qualitt // QualityWhen we look away from their suffering we become part of it. But we can stop participating, by choosing vegan. Credit: Ron Chiang weanimals (IG)
Researchers shows the glands of and are biologically suitable to be infected by avian influenza, which has so far affected mostly and cattle.
So there's a science news bit going around about tryptophan being discovered on a meteorite (approximately).
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Seeing animals from their own perspective makes one thing clear: theyre just beings, like us, who want to live. Leave them in peace. Do you know what's happening to pigs right now : Farm Transparency Project
The supply of ham, bacon and other processed meat products may become less stable in Japan after the country suspended pork imports from Spain following confirmed cases of African swine fever.
Dry-cured ham may run short in Japan as swine fever risk halts Spanish imports
The supply of ham, bacon and other processed meat products may become less stable in Japan after the country suspended pork imports from Spain following confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF). The move is raising particular concern
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Slovakia, 1959. The swineherd.
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We dont know what tests Rocco and Max endured, but they were surely cruel, unnecessary, and frightening. Please choose vegan and cruelty-free products to help animals like them. : Videos thanks to lighthousefarmsanctuary (IG)
"After months in a car, Roscoe the pig begins new life at Oregon farm sanctuary"
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"A 250-pound pig, who had been living with his owner in the back of a hatchback car in Portland, is now adjusting to rural life in Scio, Oregon."
New research just dropped.
Animals have sentience in common with us. They matter too. See the reality of animal agriculture: Clips from pia.bengaltigress (IG) thesavemovement (IG) torontochickensave (IG)
If theyre just food, why do they want to live See the truth:
"In his "book A 3,000-Year of and the , author Jordan D. Rosenblum shares more than two decades worth of . He explains that at the beginning of the period, in the of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, did not have a unique status other non- items were viewed as non-kosher as the pig. But by the time of the destruction of the by the in 70 CE, the pig was king of and had taken on its role as uber non-kosher.
Rosenblum points out that great attention is given to pigs in martyrdom stories and forced ingestions. He suggests that the role the pig plays in the Second Temple martyrdom narrative is what led to its out-sized influence and to its becoming a metonym for non-kosher food, both within the narrative and the non-Jewish view."
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Feral pigs are running wild
"Destruction wrought by pig-borne disease is thining the canopy of bunya pine forests. Australian landscapes didnt evolve for hard-hoofed animals and aggressive foragers with the mass of a feral pig we are seeing severe ecological imbalances starting to occur. >>
Over *90%* of pigs are raised in factory farms that look more like dungeons than farms. Do you think pigs deserve this Clips from the documentary M6NTHS thesavemovement (IG) galapagosfortheanimals (IG)
Imagine a world without a often called a mans best friend. A world also without , or sheep. If our ancestors had not many and a few thousand years ago, there would be no fields of grain, rapeseed or cotton. All animals would be wild.
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They didn't ask to be 'your' bacon. : VeganFTA with chips from chrisshoebridgefilm shatabdichakrabarti kjguerin joannemcarthurphotography craigredmondphotos weanimals (IG)
Shlomit will never again feel pain, fear, or hunger, thanks to the care and love he receives from his family at freedomfarmsanctuary (IG) The hidden lives of pigs will shock you: HiddenLivesOfAnimals.com freedomfarmsanctuary (IG) edited by VeganFTA
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Much of the flavor of pork & other comes from the ' fat. A company cultivating pork fat in bioreactors can create , , & with plants that taste darn near like productswithout killing pigs: