点评:Touring the pig farm was heart wrenching. I can't believe so many people think this is a great family adventure. Educational, yes, but is anyone noticing the extreme and cruel confinement of the pigs? You walk into this beautiful education center with displays touting how smart and wonderful pigs are, and then you go through the hallways and look down on the crowded rooms of older piglets with absolutely nothing to do but pee on each other and occasionally fight. No windows, no bedding, no toys, nothing. Of course, the sows have it even worse - spending 50 DAYS in gestation crates where they live 24/7 in a 2x7 ft crate -they can't turn around, can't scratch themselves, can't move more than a step forward or back. For 50 days! Would you do that to your dog? Your child? Yourself? Then they are moved into small pens with several other sows with, again, absolutely nothing to do (you can see the abnormal chewing behaviors, for example, that they display), for another several weeks and then back into another tiny crate for 28 days to birth and nurse their piglets. (Welcome to your horrible, miserable life of confinement, piglets.) Then, guess what - they start the whole process over again. So they spend the vast majority of their lives not even able to turn around. And people are observing this and not understanding and/or not caring. This extremely cruel way of treating farmed pigs is being normalized and nobody cares. WHY AREN'T THERE MORE REVIEWS ABOUT THIS?!
翻译:参观养猪场真是令人心碎。我简直不敢相信这么多人觉得这是个很棒的家庭活动。没错,它确实有教育意义,但有人注意到猪被囚禁的程度有多残酷吗?你走进这个漂亮的教育中心,看到各种展品吹嘘猪有多聪明、多可爱,然后你穿过走廊,俯瞰拥挤的小猪圈,它们除了互相撒尿、偶尔打架之外,什么事都做不了。没有窗户,没有垫料,没有玩具,什么都没有。当然,母猪的处境更糟——它们要在妊娠栏里待上整整50天,24小时都待在一个2英尺乘7英尺的狭小空间里——它们不能转身,不能挠痒,也不能前后移动超过一步。整整50天!你会这样对待你的狗吗?你的孩子?你自己?然后,它们会被转移到狭小的猪圈里,和其他几头母猪一起,在那里,它们依然无所事事(例如,你可以看到它们异常的咀嚼行为),再待上几个星期,然后被送回另一个狭小的猪圈,在那里待上28天,产仔并哺乳。(欢迎来到你们悲惨的囚禁生活,小猪们。)然后,你猜怎么着——它们又要重新开始整个过程。所以,它们生命中的大部分时间甚至连转身的机会都没有。而人们目睹这一切,却不理解,或者漠不关心。这种极其残忍的养殖猪方式正在被正常化,却无人问津。为什么关于这件事的评论如此之少?!