Animal Group Says Don't Pig Out On Dodger Dogs

[ohiosmith]

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Dodger Dogs may be a culinary tradition at Dodger Stadium, but animal rights activists said Monday the Major League Baseball team should cut ties with the frankfurters' meat supplier, citing concerns over the treatment of pigs.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund sent a letter to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, notifying him that Farmer John, which supplies hot dogs to Dodger Stadium, and its meat supplier, Corcpork Inc., are being sued for allegedly raising pigs in confined spaces.


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PS Hate the Dodgers, love the dogs. :popcorn:

[hippiechick]

1. I'm never sure how to feel about these things ...

... same with the KFC brou-ha-ha ... I mean, we're raising them for the sole purpose of being EATEN.

How much more cruel could it get? :shrug:

[LostinVA]

2. I've thought about this

I eat meat and probably always will. I think that livestock have a ethical (and should eb legal) right to be raised in humane conditions and slaughtered quickly, painlessly, and without fear.

[DS1]

4. Amen.

With a place to walk. Actually get some sunlight. Breathe from a breeze.

It's not a lot to ask.

[flvegan]

3. Ah, yes...gestation crates.

A brilliantly wonderful invention maximizing cruelty for a buck.

http://www.factoryfarming.com/pork.htm

Modern breeding sows are treated like piglet-making machines. Living a continuous cycle of impregnation and birth, each sow has more than 20 piglets per year. After being impregnated, the sows are confined in gestation crates — small metal pens just two feet wide that prevent sows from turning around or even lying down comfortably. At the end of their four-month pregnancies, they are transferred to similarly cramped farrowing crates to give birth. With barely enough room to stand up and lie down and no straw or other type of bedding to speak of, many suffer from sores on their shoulders and knees. When asked about this, one pork industry representative wrote, "...straw is very expensive and there certainly would not be a supply of straw in the country to supply all the farrowing pens in the U.S."

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Not bloody likely

The Dodgers and Farmer John have been connected since I've been a fan, which is to say for at least 42 years.

Whenever I think of Vin Scully, I hear him saying "Fahmah Jahn Dadgah Dahgs."

(Note: I have never eaten one.)