While many consumers are aware of the hellish conditions on pig factory farms, there are some especially horrific practices this industry still manages to keep largely hidden from the general public. One such practice is the routine "culling" of pigs deemed too small, sickly, or otherwise unprofitable. This happens across all stages of pig production, with these "cull" pigs killed and discarded READ ON
I cherish the years I spent on my grandparents’ farm. I remember waking up to roosters crowing and the clank of the metal covers on metal feeding troughs slapping closed as pigs finished eating and turned to lie in the morning sun. I can still smell the magic of Grandma’s breakfast drifting upstairs to pull me out of bed. I’d jump in my overalls and scramble out to help Grandpa feed the 40 READ ON
In late April of 2011, on his "humane, pasture-raised-and-grass-fed" farm's blog, pig and sheep farmer Bob Comis posted a sobering one-sentence personal reflection, entitled, "It Might Be Wrong to Eat Meat": "This morning, as I look out the window at a pasture quickly growing full of frolicking lambs, I am feeling very much that it might be wrong to eat meat, and that I might indeed be a very READ ON
