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Eating pigs is a choice, not a necessity, so Ms. Hepola, please spare us the false piety. If you truly believed what you wrote about these highly intelligent animals, you would join with those who choose to let them live. Instead, you've joined with those who choose to slit open their throats. You can live very well without "pork," but these animals cannot live without their lives.
Now that Salon has spent a week celebrating the eating of pig flesh, perhaps it will spend another week examining how the Taser company tests its painful shocking tools on live pigs. Salon can also report on the use of pigs in burn experiments. But best of all, Salon can skip the microscopic portion of producers who treat their pigs "humanely," and report instead on the hundreds of millions of pigs who suffer terrible pain and misery in factory farms -- factory farms which also produce incredible water and air pollution. That's the ugly reality behind the bacon you so crave.
