Malformed Zoomer

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease. This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit. The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London. A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box. These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel. They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains. They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep. Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”: > “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.” — The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates. It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption. SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins). The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill. With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment. Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two. It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place. All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now. That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective. If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

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Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

3 days ago

@ThisStupidTwink https://t.co/9hbWUq42PS

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

6 days ago

Tfw the vape runs dry and you got a lung full of pure digital

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

3 days ago

@WholePersonDiet @Benthamsbulldog @IntuitiveLulu Apparently he forgot words can have different meanings depending on the speaker and the context

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

3 days ago

@WholePersonDiet @Benthamsbulldog @IntuitiveLulu True, like those idiots who call twins that share the same genes identical. How can they be identical if they are different people?

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

4 days ago

@SirColeJerkin @SeeversTer4837 @facetedcarapace It’s funny to imagine someone seeing that episode and their takeaway being that they want a deck like that

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

5 days ago

@beAAArliker @Demon_Realms I think actions that cause suffering are bad especially if they violate rights, ripping something apart is violating its right to life. I don’t think one has the right to violate others rights to stay alive. That’s me personally

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

5 days ago

@beAAArliker @Demon_Realms We could house them in sanctuaries and control their populations ourselves rather than releasing animals that will tear them apart while they’re still alive

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

5 days ago

@beAAArliker @Demon_Realms Yes I empathize more with the victim than the aggressor. The same way I would kill a bear trying to kill a human, I would also kill one trying to kill a deer. I’m not saying the bear is morally bad, but the actions it takes are despite it not having moral comprehension.

Malformed Zoomer @InformedZoomer

5 days ago

@beAAArliker @Demon_Realms I agree it has not been the state of affairs throughout evolutionary history, that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible. We already take care of 10x the number of wild mammals on the planets in farms already, it would be possible to create sanctuaries Being ripped apart is not “fine”