H1N1: The problem with corporate agri-farming
The animals never know the feel of grass, mud or sunshine, and hardly the touch of man, in their six months of life. But they are also free of many of the infections that slow the growth and occasionally end the lives of their outdoor cousins.
“We’re producing the most efficient animal, one that is healthy every day,” said Devon Schott, the 34-year-old farmer who owns the building. To do that, he said, “biosecurity is of utmost importance.”
via Scientists study pig farming for answers on swine flu – washingtonpost.com.
I don’t care what new procedures they have come up with to make their pigs “healthy.” The fact is there are a few sentences in this excerpt that tell you all you need to know.
“The animals never know the feel of grass, mud or sunshine.” That alone tells you that what they’re doing is wrong. The last quote is also telling when the “farmer” says “we’re producing the most efficient animal.” Animals are not supposed to be looked at as being efficient (unless you’re the human kind stuck in a corporate rat race). While pigs and cows are our food we cannot look at them as things they are living beings.
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