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Barbara Sinclair's avatar

Thanks, Jo, for being a voice for the animals. What we humans do to this planet is beyond comprehension. xoxo

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Jo Waller's avatar

🐒🙏🏽

xxx

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The Word Herder's avatar

Today seems to be a day of peering into the darkness of wounded hearts...

Thank you for a profound appeal for our fellow creatures. XO

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Jo Waller's avatar

🙏🏽

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Visceral Adventure's avatar

Factory farming is indicative of our internal moral rot.

>neutered cats who allow us to be their bitches.

Hahahahahahahaha.

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Jo Waller's avatar

yes, it's self-hate.

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Maybe this time's avatar

Thank you So. I think there will be a reckoning soon...

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Kirsten's avatar

Beautiful, thank you.

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Jo Waller's avatar

♥️You're welcome 🙏🏽

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Kelliann's avatar

😥😥

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California Girl's avatar

It would be instructive to learn exactly who is willing to kill off the pigs that have the nerve to be where some humans don't want them. Some people seem to think that their neighborhood, regardless of size, should be exactly the way they want it to be. So much for living in the real world, and accommodating others. Where I live the elk population is judged to be growing too large, and measures must be taken, but what? Murder, birth control? Those are the most popular options. Where is the neighborliness?

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Gavin Mounsey's avatar

Thank you for your compassion and courage to take an honest look at the hubris, malice and selfishness of humanity in how we interact with our fellow beings.

I was recently writing about the wild Buffalo (Bison) that were exterminated by the millions in what is now called Canada and the US at the end of the 1800-s (by US military and railroad barons/bounty hunters) so that they could starve the indigenous peoples that depended on the Buffalo to survive (and steal their land).

This picture https://archive.org/details/buffalo-slaughter shows the kind of psychotic mentality the men had (and still do have) that are involved in the mass murder and enslavement of non-human (and human) beings for profit and domination.

In an effort to apply the permaculture design mentality of turning problems into solutions, I strove to formulate a way in which we could learn from that disturbing part of history and do the opposite of what they did to not only help the Buffalo, but also the Earth to regenerate. I elaborated on that in the comments here: https://www.corbettreport.com/what-is-the-future-of-food/#comment-145620

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Jo Waller's avatar

Thank you. and thank you for the thorough (and also constructive0 comments on the fate of millions of buffalo, OMG that picture!

I was also reminded of the thousands of whales in the oceans that were killed for blubber for oil, being lanced with spears that meant a slow and terrified death.

I hope for an awakening and regeneration

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Fast Eddy's avatar

I have a solution to all of the planet's problems.

Remove the humans. We ARE the problem

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Fast Eddy's avatar

yes animals do not pave over the planet -- they don't enslave billions of animals in horrifying conditions then eat them ... they certainly do not experiment on each other to create tear-free shampoo...

If you objectively look at what we do to these innocent animals you surely cannot help but think we are some sort of evil entity...

I notice that not a lot of people are liking my earlier comment -- I would expect that --- people say they want the truth but do they really? They generally cannot handle the truth... they will usually get angry if one gives it to them.

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Fast Eddy's avatar

Can we all agree that Greta Thunberg should be immediately hung then fed to the pigs?

She needs to set a good example

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George's avatar

Feral pigs and hogs are a huge problem to crops. In the deep South this is well known, that's why they are hunted. They run in packs and are very dangerous. If you get too close you may be gutted by their long sharp tusks. Hunters are keenly aware of this and try to take them out with one shot. If wounded a feral hog may attack. The last big flood in the lower Mississippi Delta (2019) left deep water for almost 6 months that killed most of the deer, small animals and feral hogs. Those that could not get out usually went to higher ground where the starved to death. Everywhere one looked there were floating dead animals.

During a recent conversation (late Dec 2022 with a friend how is a successful deer hunter, he stated that there are few deer in the lower Delta now and mostly just hogs. Yes they are killed for food unless they are too large to pack out. Most hunters go for smaller ones so they pack them out of the woods and take them to a wild game processor.

Feral hogs are not "Bambi," they are very destructive! The links below will give you some perspective on the lower Delta flooding and lower MS River flooding. There is a lot more

https://www.agweb.com/weather/great-shame-mississippi-delta-2019-flood-hell-and-high-water

https://mississippiriverdelta.org/5-reasons-why-2019s-mississippi-river-flood-is-the-most-unprecedented-of-our-time/

I grew up in S. Mississippi in the early 1960s. Yes we had cows and hunted. I mostly hunted squirrel. We ate what we killed! You who live in cities have a false sense of reality and you better wake up from your slumber about the real world, were your food comes from and where energy comes from. Few people die in hot weather but many die in the cold.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Hi,

thanks for reading. The article I was referring to suggested that the problem was entirely human made in the first place, that 25 years ago wild pigs were found in very few states, and that it was caused by legalised hunting as well as illegal transport of pigs. It also suggested that hunting them to prevent them damaging crops was extremely inefficient and as well has having low effectiveness.

Humans are very dangerous to pigs who treated them very badly, release them and then hunt them, shot or poison them, blame them for problems they themselves have caused.

My food comes from my local organic veg and fruit farm where I volunteer. Beans and grains come from farms in the south of England.

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