Bring back bacon!

Mmmm... back bacon. (drool)

(Oh, and don't forget to bring a two-four of Canadian too.)

mmmmmmm bacon

Now that's some chunky bacon!

finally a silly forum thread that I can chew on....

Where the hell was bacon? Don't tell me I've been eating Hufu again and nobody told me.

you rang?

You made it! Say do you know Kevin Bacon?

No - but I know a friend who has a sister whose colleague sold carpets to an aquaintance of Kevin.

mmmmmmmm bacon, eh.

(Disclaimer: at least one animal was harmed in the making of this delicious-looking picture.)

Bacon bacon bacon bacon!!!!

Did someone say Bacon???

While that may be true from your location, here in the sates there at least 10 casualties involved for 5 pieces of bacon:

1. Poor wildlife in some remote part of the world gets destroyed by some oil drilling equipment.
2. Multiple animals harmed while driving the Super Sized SUV to the local greasy spoon to pick up breakfast the off to the gas station to fill up the SUV which by now has killed 5 animals in less than 20 mins.
3. Off to the farm to get the good one to make the bacon. Select 5 diff animals because we only want the best cuts, the rest of it can be tossed out. This equates to 1 piece of bacon per animal.

Just for added thought, Chuck Norris comes in and randomly RoundHouse kicks someone for grins which adds one more fatality.

ew

Many people who know pigs compare them to dogs because they are friendly, loyal, and intelligent. Pigs are naturally very clean and avoid, if at all possible, soiling their living areas. When given the chance to live away from factory farms, pigs will spend hours playing, lying in the sun, and exploring their surroundings with their powerful sense of smell. Considered smarter than 3-year-old human children, pigs are very clever animals.1 Learn more about the intelligence of pigs.

Most people rarely have the opportunity to interact with these outgoing, sensitive animals because 97 percent of pigs in United States today are raised on factory farms.2 These pigs spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, under constant stress from the intense confinement and denied everything that is natural to them.

As piglets, they are taken away from their mothers when they are less than 1 month old; their tails are cut off, some of their teeth are cut off, and the males have their testicles ripped out of their scrotums (castration), all without any pain relief. They spend their entire lives in overcrowded pens on a tiny slab of filthy concrete.

Breeding sows spend their entire miserable lives in tiny metal crates where they can’t even turn around. Shortly after giving birth, they are once again forcibly impregnated. This cycle continues for years until their bodies finally give out and they are sent to be killed. When the time comes for slaughter, these smart and sensitive animals are forced onto transport trucks that travel for many miles through all weather extremes—many die of heat exhaustion in the summer and arrive frozen to the inside of the truck in the winter.

According to industry reports, more than 170,000 pigs die in transport each year, and more than 420,000 are crippled by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse.3 Many are still fully conscious when they are immersed in scalding water for hair removal.

and more...

Many people think of Charlotte’s Web and Babe when they imagine how pigs are raised for meat. Unfortunately, these Hollywood tales do not depict reality. Almost all of the 100 million pigs killed for food in the United States every year endure horrific conditions in controlled animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the meat industry’s euphemism for factory farms.4 Smarter than dogs, these social, sensitive animals spend their lives in overcrowded, filthy warehouses, often seeing direct sunlight for the first time as they are crammed onto a truck bound for the slaughterhouse.5

A mother pig, or sow, spends her adult life confined to a tiny metal crate. She will never feel the warmth of a nest or the affectionate nuzzle of her mate—she will spend her life surrounded by thick, cold metal bars, living on wet, feces-caked concrete floors. When she is old enough to give birth, she will be artificially impregnated and then imprisoned again for the entire length of her pregnancy in a “gestation crate,” a cage only 2 feet wide—too small for her even to turn around or lie down in comfortably.6

After giving birth, a mother pig is moved to a “farrowing crate,” a contraption even worse and smaller than a gestation crate, with only a tiny additional concrete area on which the piglets can nurse.7 Workers will sometimes tie the mother’s legs apart so she cannot get a break from the suckling piglets. She may develop open “bed sores” on her body from the lack of movement. This practice is so barbaric that gestation crates have been banned in Florida, the U.K., and Sweden and will be banned in the European Union in 2013.8,9

When pregnant sows are ready to give birth, they are moved from a gestation crate to a farrowing crate. One worker describes the process: “They beat the shit out of them [the mother pigs] to get them inside the crates because they don’t want to go. This is their only chance to walk around, get a little exercise, and they don’t want to go [back into a crate].”10


The piglets are taken away from their mother after less than a month—in nature, they would stay with their mother for several months.11 She is impregnated again, and the cycle of forced breeding and imprisonment continues. For such an intelligent animal, this intensive confinement causes debilitating stress and boredom. With nothing to do but stare at the bars in front of her, a mother pig may go insane. This is often exhibited by neurotic chewing on the cage bars or obsessive pressing on her water bottle.12 After three or four years, when her body is exhausted and her mind pushed to or even past the brink of insanity, she is shipped off to slaughter.

Meanwhile, the sow’s piglets have their testicles cut out of their scrotums, their tails cut off, many of their teeth clipped in half, and their ears mutilated, all without any pain relief.14 Terrified and in extreme pain, the piglets are often put alone into tiny metal wire cages (called “battery cages” by the farmers). These cages are stacked on top of each other, and urine and excrement constantly fall on the piglets in the lower cages. After the piglets have grown too big for the cages, they are placed into small, cramped pens crowded with many other piglets, where they are kept until they are large enough for slaughter. The animals are given almost no room to move because, as one pork-industry journal put it, “[O]vercrowding pigs pays.”15 Impeccably clean by nature, pigs on factory farms are forced to live in their own feces, vomit, and even amid the corpses of other pigs.

Overcrowding, poor ventilation, and filth cause rampant disease. Respiratory problems are common because of high levels of humidity and toxic gases from the manure pits—in fact, 70 percent of pigs on factory farms have pneumonia by the time they’re sent to the slaughterhouse.16 Many pigs die from infections caused by the noxious fumes and filth of their enclosures. Pigs are fed massive doses of antibiotics to keep them alive in these conditions. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer from mange.17

Because of illness, lack of space to exercise, and genetic manipulation that forces them to grow too big too fast, pigs often develop arthritis and other joint problems.18 Many pigs on factory farms live on slatted floors above giant manure pits. Smaller pigs often suffer severe leg injuries when their legs get caught between the slats.19

Always concerned with their bottom line, some farmers kill sick animals instead of giving them medicine or veterinary care. A PETA investigation found that a manager at an Oklahoma farm was killing pigs by beating them with metal gate rods, and others were left to die without food or water. Unwanted “runts” were killed, as they are on most farms, by “thumping,” which involves slamming the animals’ heads against the floor.20 Watch video from that investigation.

After enduring months in these hellish conditions, pigs are forced onto trucks, bound for a horrific and agonizing death at the slaughterhouse.

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_pigs.asp

save the pigs u guys!!

... before ending up on your plate as delicious, crispy bacon!

i hope that was a cut and paste job

Yeah, quit hogging all the bacon. I want some, too.

Bacon: Nature's perfect food!

Can I feel grossly, terribly discriminated against if I prefer pork chops? Bacon's great and all, but pork chops, now THERE's a meal I can sink my teeth into!

Cubey, I did pick up some bacon, you just didn't specify where I should bring it TO...

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*prok* chops? freudian slip, logan?

THE MEATRIX - http://www.themeatrix.com/

Wow, you people are quick. One freudian slip, corrected about 30 seconds later. Oy.

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