Said Piggy Moses to Farmer Pharaoh....
Anyway....
I read recently from someone that animals on a farm can not be happy because they are not in the wild.
Now let me say I agree with this 100%!
I have included a picture of two of our pigs to prove this point.
Now let me point out the bigger pig (Digger) notice the rolls of fat under her chin and behind her leg, obviously a condition relating to her chronic starvation and cruelly high level of stress. I mean seriously, how long can one pig stand to spend her days eating, sleeping and lounging in her mud wallow?!
Now on to our next image of animal cruelty, the little pig (Squeaker AKA Little Squeaks). Don't let her napping fool you, that one cocked ear is always on guard for the cruel farmer coming to unfairly load food into her trough or even (dare I say it?!) scratch her on the back and behind the ears. Note the piggy smile on her face, this smile comes from the satisfaction of knowing that someday in the piggy afterlife her sadist masters will have to answer for their abominable crimes and suffer the endless torments of piggy hell.
Sarcasm off.
I hope I have made my point, saying that animals can only be happy in the wild is like saying that humans (also animals) can only be happy living half way to starvation in caves and running from leopards while dying of infection (our natural state). There is nothing wrong with animals in the wild, but to idealize "The Wild" as some sort of non-stop animal nirvana is the utmost of ignorance. Living in "The Wild" means a harsh, short, painful life of kill or be killed and that is why humans (as I said before, also animals) live in houses and cultivate our own food. The animals on our farm have the opportunity to benefit from our civilization; they receive more food than they would in the wild, better housing, better medical care, no predators and more often than not an opportunity to pass on their DNA.....Jeeze farm life is tough for our animals.
We value our animals as part of our family and as such give them every opportunity to live the happiest life we can give them. If you doubt our animals are happy and content, I would invite you over to the farm to see for your self. Granted you may get bowled over by the friendly 200lb dog, mobbed by the turkeys looking for a snack, charged by goats looking for a little petting, savaged by pigs who want a back scratch, or have your shoulder ravaged by a chicken hopping up on it to see what you are doing. But if you have the fortitude to stand all that, we will pour you a glass of home brew, fire up the BBQ and the bread oven and you can spend all day trying to find the unhappy animals. Ya.... Good luck with that.....
