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Back to Episodes“The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Description
Crosspost.
(I think this is one of the most important things I’ve written, so I’d appreciate if you could like, share, and restack it. And if you know what's at stake, and just want to know what to do, skip to the end).
What's at stake
Sometimes, the operations of factory farms are so wicked that if they were described in a work of fiction, you’d think it was a cartoonish caricature of evil. Perhaps there is no better example of this than gestation crates. Pregnant mother pigs are penned up in tiny crates without enough room to turn around, for many months. Their feces piles up around them, so that these animals with amazing senses of smell must inhale shit all day. They have no source of enjoyment, no ability to live any kind of real life—all they can do is bite the bars of the cage and pine for a freedom that will never come.
Why would the farms do this? What could be the point of this cruelty? The main reason is that the industry saves on food costs when their animals don’t move around as much. If you’re kept in a cage where you can’t [...]
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Outline:
(00:25) What's at stake
(07:47) What can be done
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First published:
June 3rd, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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