Animal food
Sir,—l, like T. J. Johnson, watched the revolting and distressing TV. documentary on factory farming, turning off when mother sows tied down in wire cages the size of their bodies were not allowed to touch their piglets who were in a similar cage at their sides and had just room to suckle. In frantic distress one was biting at the iron bar along her nose. I have felt ill whenever I think of this programme, realising that farmers can be so cruel for money and that we humans can eat the meat produced by such unnecessary suffering. Unfortunately the battery hen system with ghastly tiny cages was started here some years ago; recently rabbits have been subjected to this confined cruelty and even calves in this country of green grass and sunshine are not allowed to skip in the fields for the short, life we allow them. Surely the S.P.C.A. and Federated Farmers have members with feelings to fight these horrifying farming practices.—Yours, etc. J. H. PARSONSON. April 3, 1982.
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