27
May
Of Pig Farms and Concentration Camps
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The European Union is considering making a contribution to the removal of a pig farm from the site of a World War Two internment camp for Romanies. Now I whole-heartedly support any mark of respect for the victims of concentration camps, and a memorial is clearly a wonderful idea. The people that spent time and perished at the Lety Camp in the Czech Republic deserve a lot better than a pig farm. Most of all, I’m elated that the pig farm may be removed.
But I just want to point out a rather large connection here that you may, or may not, have noticed.
Isn’t it just fitting that a human concentration camp was replaced with an animal concentration camp? After all, pig farms are cramped, filthy, miserable prisons for pigs, and at the end of a short and pitiful life they are slaughtered to satisfy humans’ desires. As I pointed out in a recent post, there are many similarities between how we have treated humans in the past and how we treat animals in the present.
Much as the human rights movement made leaps and bounds (although much is yet to be done) so will the animal rights movement..