Daily Mail exposé: The computer consultants turned swineherds' Happy Pig farm was anything but. The pigs were forced to live in mud and squalor:
It all went horribly wrong:Touring the farmers' markets, the owners of the Happy Pig Company trade on a growing consumer demand for meat from animals reared with kindness.
They charge £35 for a few 'organic' chops and pork joints in a pack bearing their logo of a smiling cartoon pig leaning on a wall.
They boast that the 'top quality, additive-free' pork comes from pampered pigs living free-range in a field close to the sea, eating 'only natural foods'.
But the truth about the 'happy pigs' kept by Andrew Dyer-Wright and Keith Barnett is that they have endured such squalor that several have died in their field and been left to rot in the mud.
At least they were organic.When the farmers failed to clear the corpses away, the remaining pigs were so hungry that they turned cannibal and ate the dead pigs where they lay.
Owners comment:
'I didn't know they were eating each other - and I'll certainly carry on with the Happy Pig Company when the investigation is over. The dead ones were happy pigs until they got hungry.'
Mr Dyer-Wright said: 'To have my own pigs was a dream come true. I don't know what's gone wrong.'
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losing consciousness in a pig pen is a farmers nightmare. Pigs will eat a farmer who passes out, if they can get to him. Farmers have had heart attacks, and not much was found of the body. Pigs used to clean the battlefields of Europe, and not all the "bodies" had slipped their mortal bonds yet. Nasty animals if they want to be....eating is the best use of the things. in a slight defense of the owners (though it sounds like someone hasn't a clue) hogs well fed will start to eat another who has died. It is their nature. They are omnivourous scavengers.
ReplyDeleteP.S. this template for blogger does not work with FireFox, and takes three attempts to work with I.E.8 I wish they'd fix that. And if they tell me I need Chrome I will shoot someone.
A freind has moved as it also did not want to work right in Safari (he's diehard Mac)
Thanks for the porcine wisdom. Gruesome.
ReplyDeleteI know as much about computers as I do about pigs, but I use Firefox and it seems to work for me, both in Linux and (ugh) Windows. A while back this blog was taking forever to load and I got rid of some of the clutter. Maybe I need to kill my mp3 thingies on left, or get rid of several dozen of the links on the right? I don't like to hear that people have trouble viewing P&P, because I know I a too avoid blogs that crash my computer. Thanks for letting me know.
When I answer via the email notifications, it too works fine for me. That uses the old comment page.
ReplyDeleteMy buddy who had issues has a roommate who could not get FF to work at all, and he had an intermittent issue with Safari. Several others using FF had no trouble, others never got it to work. most of us with FF had the latest versions as well. Who knows. Drives me nutz. Some sites are no problem, others are impossible.