Say "NO" to Gestation Crates for Pigs!

Greater Good - Animal Edition has sent the following message with call for action to end cruelty to pigs.

Can you imagine living your whole life in a space no larger than an airplane seat? This is the sad reality that

millions of pigs face across the nation while the pork industry inhumanely locks them into tiny cages day and night.

Pigs are intelligent and social animals, and are normally very physically active. Forcing them to live out their lives immobilized is sentencing them to a miserable and cruel existence.

Some food giants have pledged to eliminate these cruel gestation crates, but there's still work to be done. Speak out against the use of gestation crates for pigs. Join other animal lovers and help pigs live a life free from such torture.

Say "NO" to gestation crates for pigs!

Stop Brutal Killing of Pigs for Vietnamese Tradition

Several human traditions are obvious killing festivals whereby blood of innocent animals is shed under the clichéd rubric of ‘Sacrifice’. One such sacrificial brutality is witnessed in Viet Nam each year. To please a local deity, called Doan Thuong, the villagers in Nem Thuong, a small town near capital city Hanoi, cut a living pig in half while the locals watch and cheer at the animal. Not only that, these people rush to color their currency bills in the fatally wounded pig’s blood, believing that this will bring them good luck and make them rich.

It is hard to even watch the brutal scene of the pig’s cruelest killing by the Nem Thuong residents and the general obligation to respect cultural festivals fails here too. Can we respect a festival that kills? Obviously not, and to express disapproval of this cruel custom, animal rights advocates have started a petition online that urges on Nem Thuong residents to put an end to this inhuman practice.

Please sign the petition online to raise a voice against the brutality that is perpetuated as a tradition.