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.
