The pictures below are not nice. I just want to forewarn you before you look. I ran to town yesterday to get groceries since my parents are coming down for the weekend. On my way home I thought I would take the back roads and have an enjoyable ride.
What I came upon made me sick, but it also cements the reason deep within me as to why I do not support factory farming and why I buy all of my meat from local people that I know. And most importantly, I know how they raise their animals…
Factory farming runs rampant in this part of Southwestern Minnesota. It’s one reason why I could happily move away from here. The farmers are in farming for money alone. Most farmers around here are no longer keepers of the land. Instead they are killing our land. And they are making damn good money doing it. So don’t fall for the poor farmer deal. The farmers around here have lots o money.
So anyway, on my way home I drove by a hog confinement farm. I’m running at around 65 miles an hour but as I pass the confinement barns I see a pile in the color of baby pink, up against the barns. I also see something being thrown out the window of the confinement barn.
I turned around. My stomach turned immediately because I was pretty sure I knew what it was. I thought it was hogs in a pile but I was hoping I was wrong. I drove back past the place and turned around again. I was right. This time my camera was on my lap, window down.
First off I wish I hadn’t had my window down because I could hear the screams of the hogs being killed, and then one would be thrown out the window. It was sickening. Sadly, this is what your eating if your buying meat from a grocery store. I thought you might like to know if you don’t already.
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I can not imagine why two whole barns of hogs would have to be killed. Disease of some kind I’m guessing? And to make matters worse, there was a rendering truck parked waiting to load them up, which means those hogs, with whatever was wrong with them, are going to be rendered and put back into feed for chickens, cows, and pigs, not to mention your cat and dog food, or worse.
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I would have had more pictures of the place, but the farmer chased me down the road with his pick-up. I’m guessing he wasn’t happy to see me and my camera. Luckily he didn’t catch me. Although I don’t know what he would have done if he did….
