Pig Castration For Maximum Flavor: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

Which is yet another reason why they should not be packed together and slaughtered for taste. Thanks for making my point for me.

Please stop voting up your own comments and please hit reply to reply to comments. It makes for easier reading and makes your arguments seem sane.

If you have to resort to personal attacks you don't have much of an argument, do you? Male pigs will be aggressive toward each other no matter how much room they have. It would help if you actually knew what you were talking about.

I'm not attacking you, I'm telling how the comment system works on here, and then showing that your own comments point to the fact that pigs are not for eating. I've been to plenty of farm sanctuaries. Pigs laying together in hay or romping in the mud, with no fate of hanging upside down bleeding to death ahead of them. Any procedures they may need are done under anesthesia as you would a pet. They are truly happy.

Animals are not here for your profit. They do not exist as little things without consciousness or desires that are just for you to sell. They exist for their own reasons.

As a matter of fact, you did attack me and suggested that my comments were not "sane." Pigs have been kept as domesticated animals for human consumption for several thousand years. I'm sure you had a lovely visit to farm sanctuaries. That's not the same as visiting working farms at all. Pigs being raised for slaughter have no idea what their ultimate fate will be. They can live very happy lives on many farms. Pigs that are less than three weeks old do not feel much pain from being castrated or from any other procedures. Just as puppies that have their tails docked or dew claws removed when they are a few days old do not feel much and are quickly back with their dams. Those procedures are also done without anesthesia.

Farmers do raise animals for profit and for food. It is called agriculture and it is a perfectly honorable way of life. I suggest that you check out http://www.thepigsite.com/ and http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/ for accurate information about farming and pigs.

Your right, farm sanctuaries aren't like farms at all because sanctuaries have the animals' best interest at heart while farms have profits at heart.

And actually, docking tails and removing dewclaws without anesthesia (which isn't true, it is almost always done with it) so dogs can be more presentable for their owners is also messed up. AND IN THE VIDEO ABOVE, you can see the pig struggling and screaming out as his TESTICLES ARE CUT OPEN WITH RAZOR BLADES. DO you honestly believe that that is totally ok? Would you like it if someone did it yto you or your children?

If killing, harming, and exploiting other animals and making their babies scream as you cut open their testicles with razor blades and taking them away from their mothers and so on for profit is "honorable" then I am an astronaut.

You're trying to protect your profits while posting here. THat is obvious and is why this programs scares you- it shows some of the realities of animal cruelty that is animal agriculture. It's good you're scared. Animal agriculture is shrinking. I hope to see a day that it ends.

You are under several mistaken ideas here. I do not raise pigs, though I have been involved with animals my entire life. The only thing that "scares" me is the misinformation coming from people like you who would like to see an end to agriculture. Just what do you think 7 billion people would use for food without agriculture? I do not intend to live on soybeans.

I've been showing and breeding dogs for over 20 years. Believe me when I say that dew claws are removed and tails are docked in puppies without anesthesia. ALWAYS. You really need to get your facts straight before posting.

Yes, absolutely. It is more than okay to castrate young male piglets. It is necessary. It allows them to be raised together without aggression. It allows males to be raised with females without any attempts at breeding. And it does prevent boar taint, the unpleasant, gamey taste of testosterone, from flavoring the pork. All of these are very good reasons to castrate male piglets.

We do not usually castrate human children, at least where I live. But I understand that animal rights radicals often confuse animals with people.

I certainly hope you aren't an astronaut. That could be the problem with the space program.

Those 7 billion people could use all of the food fed to animals in animal agriculture operations- most of the food in the world is fed to livestock.

I'm not against all agriculture- just the wasteful, unsustainable, cruel, and polluting animal agriculture.

And you're a dog breeder?! AND you support removing the body parts of dogs without anesthesia. Wonderful. Check out an animal shelter some time and look at all of the dogs rotting in cages because people like you won't stop breeding them. You do admit to using and exploiting animals for profit though and attempting to protect your industry from being exposed by animal rights people- you know, the wackos that dare show the world simple videos of what happens at the hands of people like you.

Humans are animals. Simple biology lesson. I guess you missed that. Obviously.

I intend to eat meat protein now and for the foreseeable future.

Yes, I do breed dogs. Purebred, intentionally-bred, wanted animals which have a purpose in this world. Don't bother lecturing me about animal shelters. I've probably been involved with animal rescue longer than you've been alive. You have absolutely no idea what kind of profit or loss a show breeder makes. I am not involved in an "industry." I breed because it's something I love to do and I love the animals, something you are probably not able to understand.

"Wackos" is your term, but I won't dispute it. You do not know "people like me."

Again, I suggest some actual knowledge before you start spouting off.

So you've looked into the eyes of the products of pet overpopulation, watched them have a life of homelessness or die, and decided to continue to contribute to the problem by breeding. Good for you. You sure do "love" animals. Well, some. Well, actually hardly any- just the ones you breed. All others-meh, they can just be slaughtered for your taste buds or die in shelters.

That's not "loving" animals. I have plenty of knowledge all of which you are showing to be correct.

Oh, give up. You don't know anything about me and you are clearly just parroting things you have heard from other sources. Breeding dogs is not a "problem." Most dogs found in animal shelters are there because they are owner turn-ins, not because of overbreeding. That's a retention and training problem, behavior problems, not a breeding problem. Every dog in an animal shelter could be adopted tomorrow and there would still be millions of people who wanted to get a dog each year. Why don't you actually look at some facts instead of believing all of the propaganda put out by AR groups? And, no, I do not just rescue dogs that I have bred. I've done rescue for lots of dogs in the past 20 plus years that had no connection to me or my dogs.

As for agriculture, it's obvious that you have no idea what you've been trying to talk about. Every single thing you have posted has been inaccurate. You clearly have some fantasy or wished-for-idea about farm animals that has nothing to do with what they're really like. How sad.

My favorite part about this debate we're having is that you repeatedly accuse me of lying and being ignorant, you don't say what about, then you elaborate on animal exploitation industries saying exactly what I am saying in different words to try to make it sound good. What have I said that was a lie? Huh?

Every dog could be adopted tomorrow and there would still be a need for more dogs?! SURE. This comment is one of many that shows you have no idea about animal rescue. There is no way to adopt every single animal while breeders exist. Period. Because people like you bash shelter dogs as somehow deserving of their fate, so you can make some money selling your own, that is one of many reasons they are not adopted.

What have I posted that has been inaccurate about animal agriculture?

You thought puppies were placed under anesthesia to have their dew claws removed and tails docked. You thought the only reason pigs were castrated was for the taste of the meat. You think we can all eat the kind of lower percentage protein that is fed to livestock, which ranges from 6 to 18 percent protein, when humans typically need much higher quality meat protein. You think normal life on a farm is somehow inhumane to animals when farmers must take good care of their animals in order for them to grow and reproduce. You seem to think that anyone who breeds dogs is a monster, regardless of the fact that we would have no modern dog breeds without thousands of years of selective breeding by dog breeders. Your ignorance is STAGGERING. You have catchy little superficial ideas which you have clearly not thought all the way through.

My assertion that all dogs in shelters could be adopted immediately and millions of people would still want to buy purebred dogs comes straight from the Maddie's Fund site, one of the organizations at the forefront of helping shelter dogs. They estimate that at least 7 million dogs in the U.S. are needed annually each year as pets. That's about twice as many as are euthanized in animal shelters each year. There are plenty of homes for both shelter dogs and purebred dogs in the U.S. And nowhere have I criticized shelter dogs at all. Please stop making things up. Shelter dogs can make great pets. Rescued animals can make great pets. And, if someone wants a purebred dog, they can also make great pets. People should have a choice about what kind of dog they want without someone like you trying to harass them.

All you have done is prove to me that the industry was more cruel than I thought it was.

The need for massive amounts of protein- esp animal protein- is a myth and is shown throughout the scientific literature to actually increase illness and disease risk. But I know you'll write the science off as irrelevant.

I think I'm done here. Thank you for being a voice for animal exploitation, showing me- as your types always do- that the industries are far crueler than I thought. You've strengthened my resolve and dedication to a vegan lifestyle. You should be proud! Ta ta now.

And, once again, you merely show how little you know. My arguments have been science-based and yours have been based on emotion. Please enjoy your vegan lifestyle, but stop trying to foist it upon others.

Vaccinations are to help kids. Castrating pigs is to make them taste good after you slaughter them. Big difference. And if you don't understand that difference, that is exactly the problem.

Hit "reply" to comments your replying to rather than making new comments.

So tell us, what exactly about this video is "over-the-top"? It's just showing exactly what you are describing here. Any animal, when a razor is taken to their balls, is going to squirm and scream- hence why it is cruel. All this is doing is showing it. You don't like that the reality of it creates a normal emotional reaction to the suffering. Like most people who support animal exploitation- you;d rather this be hidden.

From the mouth of the man displaying his trophy for the camera- an animal he killed for fun.

Like Bourdain supporting force-feeding ducks with a pole shoved down their throat and also saying vegetarians are "the worst kind of terrorists"? Or is that kind of bias ok?

my wifes on the atkins diet right now she gives me dirty looks when i'm eating bread