Is there a good reason they can’t diversify into vegan food products?
Appreciate it’ll mean changing what equipment they need but still… they presumably still have a farm with space.
They need to raise welfare standards, most pigs are kept in appalling conditions. Then less people will be turned off their products, same with chickens.
A quick google suggests that around 1% of the population are vegan. Not sure that’s going to ‘ruin’ anyone, but hey, it’s not a great headline either, is it?
I used to think pigs were dumb animals and that there was probably a good reason we ate them and not other animals like dogs, but that all changed when I jumped into a pig paddock and I got mobbed by a bunch of cute pigs all wanting a cuddle, some just bellyflopping once they got a good itch behind the ear.
Everytime I ate a sausage or some bacon, I would always remember those pigs which made me cut pork completely out of my diet until I made the jump into vegetarianism. Hoping to make the jump into veganism at some point especially after having vegan cheese which to me tasted delicious.
It’s funny how you can go believing something your whole life and not even question it, but then to impress friends and especially a girl you jump into a pig paddock, only to leave changed by the experience.
Brexit I have sympathy on them for – but if Veganism is becoming more popular they need to adapt to more plant farming.
Environmentally speaking we need to eat way less meat and animal products so more Vegans is a good thing!
This explains all the weird “eat pork” ads that have been running during veganuary
I think there needs to be a huge change in how we view and produce food in this country.
We should be eating low quantities of very high quality meat products that are produced in an environmentally friendly way. But to achieve this we need to increase protectionism, change societal views on food and diet, change the way farming is subsidised and other factors.
I hope we can get there but in the current climate there just doesn’t seem to be any sort of desire from the government. One of the potential benefits of brexit is the chance to come up with our own agricultural policy that rewards green farming, but the new environmental land managements schemes (ELMS) are looking quite lacklustre and unambitious still.
I hate articles like this. Veganism is fantastic for the environment and eliminates animal curelty, but OH NO WHAT ABOUT THE PIG FARMERS?! Granted it sucks for them, but surely that’s just inevitable, and they can look at using the land in other ways? Maybe the expanding vegan market?
First fisheries and now pig farms. Probably not the Brexit dividends that the Tories promised but maybe for the environment.
Horse drawn carriage manufacturers ‘fear ruin’ over the rise of the automobile
*Farmers worry about money because more people give a shit about animal rights*
Ftfy
New headlines “millenials are now destroying pig farmers’ livelihoods”
I can’t say I feel especially sorry for the pig farmers. Idk invest in legumes or something?
I really enjoy meat, but Brexit has caused me to start going meat free several days a week in anticipation of the bonfire of animal welfare standards that are surely on the way.
I figure if the Tories are going to fuck that little avenue of pleasure in my life, I might as well learn to adjust slowly.
Does anyone else get dozens of Love Pork ads on Reddit? I’m largely vegetarian so I’m not sure what I’ve been searching for to get those ads. The meat lobby is certainly throwing money at the problem, money I’d rather was spent raising welfare standards.
Full transparency i am a vegan. If they a moaning then they need to adapt, farm something else, something people actually want. It is a business they run after all. Supply and demand, adapt or die.
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On a personal note i think this is good news for us, the earth, and the animals obviously. There is no such thing as ethical slaughter.
Hoooray less animal pain and unnecessary suffering. Think everyone is in favour of that.
Music to my ears. I hope the entire industry burns. Fuck em all.
“It’s terrible, people don’t want to buy my products”
“What is it you sell?”
“Chopped up dead pigs”
Capitalism: The free market means you can buy what you want
Also Capitalism: WTF WHY NO BUY!
Yeah something tells me Brexit is the bigger reason, not Veganism.
86% of farmed pigs in the UK (by last gov survey) are “stunned” using suffocation by CO2. It is an agonising and distressing way of slaughtering pigs. It’s torture. The pigs will scream, struggle, attempt to escape, convulse, before either dying or passing out.
We essentially guide them into lifts/carousels and then submerge them into a dense pit of CO2.
CO2 is much more painful and distressing than any inert gas. It irritates throats, noses, eyes by creating carbonic acid on anything wet. We do this because it is the cheapest most physically practical gas for the task. Other gases are either too expensive or not dense enough to remain in the pit without diffusing away or loss due to convection.
Any pork you buy from a supermarket, restaurant, fast food place, etc. will have been the result of this process.
I think everyone should have the right to know where their food comes from.
Ultimately if the nation decides veganism is the way forwards then tough, move your business into something else.
Nobody cried for cassettes when CDs killed them, and nobody cried for CDs when downloads/streaming killed them either. It’s not the job of the government or the economy to prop up dying industries that consumers don’t want anymore.
good. pigs are kept in appalling conditions, it’s a disgrace
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Is there a good reason they can’t diversify into vegan food products?
Appreciate it’ll mean changing what equipment they need but still… they presumably still have a farm with space.
They need to raise welfare standards, most pigs are kept in appalling conditions. Then less people will be turned off their products, same with chickens.
A quick google suggests that around 1% of the population are vegan. Not sure that’s going to ‘ruin’ anyone, but hey, it’s not a great headline either, is it?
I used to think pigs were dumb animals and that there was probably a good reason we ate them and not other animals like dogs, but that all changed when I jumped into a pig paddock and I got mobbed by a bunch of cute pigs all wanting a cuddle, some just bellyflopping once they got a good itch behind the ear.
Everytime I ate a sausage or some bacon, I would always remember those pigs which made me cut pork completely out of my diet until I made the jump into vegetarianism. Hoping to make the jump into veganism at some point especially after having vegan cheese which to me tasted delicious.
It’s funny how you can go believing something your whole life and not even question it, but then to impress friends and especially a girl you jump into a pig paddock, only to leave changed by the experience.
Brexit I have sympathy on them for – but if Veganism is becoming more popular they need to adapt to more plant farming.
Environmentally speaking we need to eat way less meat and animal products so more Vegans is a good thing!
This explains all the weird “eat pork” ads that have been running during veganuary
I think there needs to be a huge change in how we view and produce food in this country.
We should be eating low quantities of very high quality meat products that are produced in an environmentally friendly way. But to achieve this we need to increase protectionism, change societal views on food and diet, change the way farming is subsidised and other factors.
I hope we can get there but in the current climate there just doesn’t seem to be any sort of desire from the government. One of the potential benefits of brexit is the chance to come up with our own agricultural policy that rewards green farming, but the new environmental land managements schemes (ELMS) are looking quite lacklustre and unambitious still.
I hate articles like this. Veganism is fantastic for the environment and eliminates animal curelty, but OH NO WHAT ABOUT THE PIG FARMERS?! Granted it sucks for them, but surely that’s just inevitable, and they can look at using the land in other ways? Maybe the expanding vegan market?
First fisheries and now pig farms. Probably not the Brexit dividends that the Tories promised but maybe for the environment.
Horse drawn carriage manufacturers ‘fear ruin’ over the rise of the automobile
*Farmers worry about money because more people give a shit about animal rights*
Ftfy
New headlines “millenials are now destroying pig farmers’ livelihoods”
I can’t say I feel especially sorry for the pig farmers. Idk invest in legumes or something?
I really enjoy meat, but Brexit has caused me to start going meat free several days a week in anticipation of the bonfire of animal welfare standards that are surely on the way.
I figure if the Tories are going to fuck that little avenue of pleasure in my life, I might as well learn to adjust slowly.
Does anyone else get dozens of Love Pork ads on Reddit? I’m largely vegetarian so I’m not sure what I’ve been searching for to get those ads. The meat lobby is certainly throwing money at the problem, money I’d rather was spent raising welfare standards.
If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/28/if-everyone-were-vegan-only-a-quarter-of-current-farmland-would-be-needed
Full transparency i am a vegan. If they a moaning then they need to adapt, farm something else, something people actually want. It is a business they run after all. Supply and demand, adapt or die.
​
On a personal note i think this is good news for us, the earth, and the animals obviously. There is no such thing as ethical slaughter.
Hoooray less animal pain and unnecessary suffering. Think everyone is in favour of that.
Music to my ears. I hope the entire industry burns. Fuck em all.
“It’s terrible, people don’t want to buy my products”
“What is it you sell?”
“Chopped up dead pigs”
Capitalism: The free market means you can buy what you want
Also Capitalism: WTF WHY NO BUY!
Yeah something tells me Brexit is the bigger reason, not Veganism.
86% of farmed pigs in the UK (by last gov survey) are “stunned” using suffocation by CO2. It is an agonising and distressing way of slaughtering pigs. It’s torture. The pigs will scream, struggle, attempt to escape, convulse, before either dying or passing out.
We essentially guide them into lifts/carousels and then submerge them into a dense pit of CO2.
This is what the process looks like (nsfw):
https://vimeo.com/147914620
CO2 is much more painful and distressing than any inert gas. It irritates throats, noses, eyes by creating carbonic acid on anything wet. We do this because it is the cheapest most physically practical gas for the task. Other gases are either too expensive or not dense enough to remain in the pit without diffusing away or loss due to convection.
Any pork you buy from a supermarket, restaurant, fast food place, etc. will have been the result of this process.
I think everyone should have the right to know where their food comes from.
Ultimately if the nation decides veganism is the way forwards then tough, move your business into something else.
Nobody cried for cassettes when CDs killed them, and nobody cried for CDs when downloads/streaming killed them either. It’s not the job of the government or the economy to prop up dying industries that consumers don’t want anymore.
good. pigs are kept in appalling conditions, it’s a disgrace