Inside the meat industry’s push to ban drones over factory farms (archive.is)

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

This industry is so horrifying that the current state is them trying to hide what they used to say in the open. Some quotes of the past are unthinkable to say aloud today, despite the industry very much still thinking that way

National Hog Farmer 1976

"Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory. Schedule treatments like you would lubrication. Breeding season is the first step in an assembly line. And marketing like the delivery of finished goods"

March 1978’s National Hog Farmer

"The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated as, a valuable piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/08/forget-they-are-an-animal

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