Posted on 11/10/2010 11:39:32 AM PST by Fawn
Between 950 and 1,000 dead pigs were found Monday on a Fulton County farm where they had apparently been abandoned months ago to die of starvation.M
Humane Society Police Officer Dennis Bumbaugh said he has never seen anything like it before. He said the incident may be the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania's history. "I was horrified when I opened the door and saw what I saw," he said during a phone interview Tuesday.
Bumbaugh was on his way to the Union Township farm of Daniel and Kerron Clark to begin counting the carcasses and assessing the evidence. The carcasses were reported to authorities by Kerron Clark on Monday, and Bumbaugh responded to the Harmon Lane property for an initial look at the situation.
Something’s fishy. Pigs would’ve been eating pigs to stay alive.
It says they were fighting among themselves...
“I think this is very normal in a lot of farming operations, that you’re going to have dead animals,” she said. “
I think she and the others responsible should be locked up in a cage to die of starvation themselves.
Inhumane treatment of ANY kind of animal is not tolerated in a society which calls itself civilized.
Intelligence test have shown hogs are the equivalent of dogs in the I.Q. realm.
Bastards.
How would you feel if they’d offered to let people shoot them for 25 cents a pound on the hoof?
Lack of water would kill quicker than lack of feed.
My first speculation is that it is maybe in foreclosure and the former owner just abandoned the place and the bank wasn’t privvy to the information.
Psychotic and probabloy spiteful as a result of the divorce.
The same kind of behavior that makes kids helpless pawns in an ego contest.
It could have been a feed lot. Someone was being paid to keep and feed them. But he took the money and ran and the owner had not felt a need to check on them.
A quick kill is better than a SLOW suffering miserable death dontcha think? Not concerned about the cruelty huh?
I was afraid that the usual small number of unfeeling animal-hating fanatics who disgrace the name of conservative would make themselves apparent in this post.
Unfortuantely, I was not disappointed.
Hunting a noble sport. Shooting starving hogs confined in a pen for sport is not.
That would make perfect sense I suppose. Your investment is underwater, so you walk away as so many former homeowners were forced to do, only in this case a part of that investment lives, breathes, and suffers miserably alone, in tiny pens, with no food, no water, no care whatsoever, and probably in the dark.
I agree. Who would leave them to die like that 950-1000??? That many pigs would have been worth a lot. Anywhere from about $1-$5 a pound. You can grow a pig to butchering size in about 6 months.
Pigs eating pigs??
You got that right! There would have been one big sucker left in each pen. Probably... no water is what got ‘em.
Raise those things in confinement all my life. ANYone who would do something like that should have his backside kicked out his mouth. If they are looking for someone to pull the duty... it would not bother me at all.
There are a number of people on FR who equate animals and people. I find it a little creepy, myself.
This story doesn’t make sense.
Pigs will eat anything and everything including their own.
WOW....maybe 10 miles from Penn State U.
Something's fishy indeed. Pork Belly prices are up 70+% over 1 year ago. That's a huge waste of money. Hell, I know nothing about pig farming, but give 'em to me and I'll buy feed and water for a year to get them ready for market.
Something went on here, and before I would advocate starving the farm owner as some have, I would certainly want to know what it was. Sure seems like a huge waste.
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