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Pig Races, the 'Flying Pig' & Expo Pig’
The conditions at ‘Expo Pig’ had improved slightly since AAQ highlighted cruelty breaches to groups responsible for the animal’s well being last year. For instance, there were no pigs covered in bites and scratches from fighting and all except two piglets had access to fluids.
The host of ‘Pig races and Flying Pig’, encourages the kids to scream names such as ‘bacon sandwich’ at the piglets, increasing their fear and making them run faster. He quickly and uncomfortably changes the subject when audience members make jokes about eating the piglets. How the piglets are treated once their short entertainment lives are over is still off the agenda, as these animals grow very large the performers are only of use to the show circuit until they outgrow the starter cages and flying pig ramp and pool.
Next to the questionable 2004 Pork Promotion - information which has a blonde woman looking suggestively at the reader with the heading: “Hello! Juicy new ideas for pork.” “Life’s juicier with pork.” With lipstick marks over the words: ‘juicer and pork’ are copies of the DPI’s Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 and Duty of Care for animals. Ironically, on the same small table the public is provided with recommendations on effective care for pigs, juicy new ideas for cooking pigs and sexy images of women. The pamphlet, see www.pork.com.au goes on to provide nutritional information and recipes by Suzie, Kate, Sarah (favorite pork meatballs!) Sam and Amy with lipstick marks in coloured squares next to the recipes for how to cook pigs. (To learn more about the psycho sexual attraction of meat and the sexual exploitation of women read article ‘Women Aren’t Chicks’ in October 04 edition of Animals Today by Debra Morris or The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carole Adams). What they don’t show youIn intensive pig farms the last 4 of these minimum standards are breached on a daily basis and ignored by those employed to protect all animals. Pigs suffer greatly during the rearing, slaughter and transportation process to arrive on the consumer’s plate. Sows spend their pregnancies in individual sow stalls, separated from each other by metal bars. It is still legal to chain a sow to the stall by a collar around the neck or stomach. If someone kept a dog in this way they would be prosecuted for cruelty. Before giving birth, sows are moved to a smaller space called a farrowing crate. This is surrounded by metal bars to protect piglets from injury. Heavily pregnant pigs with milk-swollen udders have to lie on cold, hard concrete. They have no straw to make a nest, as they would naturally. Concrete pens and stalls are small and uncomfortable; most of the pigs' natural behaviours are prevented, leading to stress and frustration. Intensive housing is a blatant breach of the Five Freedoms. RSPCA’s Five Freedoms, which are widely accepted as a standard of animal welfare: Freedom from: • Hunger and thirst • Discomfort • Pain, injury or disease • Fear and distress • Freedom to express normal behaviours |
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