Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]The 18 piglets and two sows survived the fire in Wiltshire in February, which saw 60 tonnes of hay catch fire. In a controversial move, farm manager Rachel Rivers thanked the Pewsey fire team by giving them sausages. She said: "I'm sure vegetarians will hate this." The firefighters however said the bangers were "fantastic". People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said the piglets were "no better off" for escaping the fire. "We'll be sending Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service packs of vegan sausages so that they can see how easy it is to truly be heroes for pigs - by sparing them all suffering," said spokesman Mimi Bekhechi.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41012135?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook[/url]

Man this is a rollercoaster ride of emotions I'm on.

Perfect. [editline]23rd August 2017[/editline] Peta is so salty.

I guess it makes sense, if that farmer had nowhere to put the poor little guys anymore. Better to get butchered now than die of starvation.

[QUOTE]People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said the piglets were "no better off" for escaping the fire.[/QUOTE] Like the animals that you rescue? [QUOTE]We'll be sending Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service packs of vegan sausages so that they can see how easy it is to truly be heroes for pigs [/QUOTE] I'm sure the emergency service are shitting the pants over the free food they're getting

[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;52604149]I guess it makes sense, if that farmer had nowhere to put the poor little guys anymore. Better to get butchered now than die of starvation.[/QUOTE] Or die in a fire, contrary to what PETA claims.

[QUOTE]People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said the piglets were "no better off" for escaping the fire[/QUOTE] they became delicious sausages, that's a lot better than being a charred corpse

[QUOTE=gokiyono;52604154]Like the animals that you rescue? I'm sure the emergency service are shitting the pants over the free food they're getting[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if PETA 'rescues' anything.

"by sparing them all the suffering" of burning alive? ???

Seems kind of fucked up but I suppose they were going to get killed anyway.

[QUOTE=bananaslamma;52604162]they became delicious sausages, that's a lot better than being a charred corpse[/QUOTE] Charring plays hell on natural taste unless done in a controlled setting.

I don't know I still can't shake the feeling that this is fucked up and I really wish they didn't do this But then I remember that every piece of meat I've eaten has had the same fate, so I'd be a bit hypocritical

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;52604276]I don't know I still can't shake the feeling that this is fucked up and I really wish they didn't do this But then I remember that every piece of meat I've eaten has had the same fate, so I'd be a bit hypocritical[/QUOTE] A bit of backstory can get you attached to all sorts of stuff. I don't much care about the trees that were cut down for my paper, but I would feel kinda sad if someone cut down the tree outside my window.

Can't beat a good sausage that isn't processed to hell.

Out of the fire and into the frying pan

If the firefighters just let the piglets burn they still could've got some sausages out of the deal.

[QUOTE=Mr Kotov;52604163]I'm not sure if PETA 'rescues' anything.[/QUOTE] Correct. Here in the US, PETA kills more animals every year than any other animal shelter service.

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;52604276]I don't know I still can't shake the feeling that this is fucked up and I really wish they didn't do this But then I remember that every piece of meat I've eaten has had the same fate, so I'd be a bit hypocritical[/QUOTE] Real talk, it's kinda fucked up that a lot of people are somewhat forced to feel apathetic towards this sort of thing because of the way nature is with food chains and shit. It really goes to show that mother nature tends to be pretty amoral.

Oh hey it's my village! That place is down the road. Making national news for pissing off PETA count me proud.

[QUOTE=Skerion;52604669]Real talk, it's kinda fucked up that a lot of people are somewhat forced to feel apathetic towards this sort of thing because of the way nature is with food chains and shit. It really goes to show that mother nature tends to be pretty amoral.[/QUOTE] When objective 1 is survival and objective 2 is reproduce, there's no room for morals

Welp, that was short-lived! :v:

[QUOTE]"We'll be sending Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service packs of [B]vegan sausages[/B] so that they can see how easy it is to truly be heroes for pigs - by sparing them all suffering,"[/QUOTE] So they would rather make people suffer

I find the popularity of this story funny. I'm willing to bet it's mostly being shared by people that think they care about animals, yet still eat meat. As if these pigs deserved to live, but not the ones that produced the bacon they ate yesterday.

This is the greatest thread this week.

Oh well. They still saved the bacon :v:

honestly i see nothing wrong with it you give these animals a decent life away from predators who would happily eat them alive, and put them down humanely 6 months later so they can be used to fill the tummies of the men responsible for their well-being. seems just to me. it'd be different if they were being stuffed in cages unable to move or do anything, but that doesn't sound like the case of this particular farm.

Just what the fuck does PETA expect farmers to do, let a bunch of helpless livestock animals go free? Livestock have been selectively bred to the point that they pretty much depend on living in human captivity to survive. Best case scenario for the pigs if they were let go is if they could mate with wild hogs, but then that makes more wild hogs which fuck things up for humans and then they have to be culled anyway. Cows and chickens would be pretty much fucked in the wild. I'm all for improving the conditions we subject livestock to, but releasing farm animals to "spare them from suffering" is one of the fucking stupidest ideas ever. This was a local farm as opposed to a factory farm anyway, the animals probably had it as good as it gets there but PETA [I]still[/I] had to stick their nose in this. They can get fucked.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;52604692]When objective 1 is survival and objective 2 is reproduce, there's no room for morals[/QUOTE] That's fair, but still, you gotta admit that it would have been pretty fucking nice if nature wasn't so cruel and that killing other organisms wasn't ever necessary for everyone's survival in the first place. But alas, that's just an abstractly ideal world that we're likely never going to have. A shame, honestly.

[QUOTE=gokiyono;52604154]Like the animals that you rescue? I'm sure the emergency service are shitting the pants over the free food they're getting[/QUOTE] Right? I've had some good vegan sausages too. This is a win-win for the firefighters

At least they were slaughtered humanely as opposed to a horrible death being burned alive.