Lewis Bollard(@Lewis_Bollard):Imagine we discovered a basement crammed with 100 crated animals, filthy from living in their own waste, maniacally chewing the bars of their crates in a hopeless attempt to escape. We then learned their owner had cut off parts of their bodies — teeth, tails, testicles — with a blunt knife and no pain relief. We'd call him a sadist, a psychopath, a monster. We'd prosecute him for felony animal cruelty. Now imagine he called his basement a farm and added thousands more animals in worse conditions. We'd call him a pork producer. And we'd grant him legal immunity from our animal cruelty laws.

2026.09.23 15:57

Imagine we discovered a basement crammed with 100 crated animals, filthy from living in their own waste, maniacally chewing the bars of their crates in a hopeless attempt to escape. We then learned their owner had cut off parts of their bodies — teeth, tails, testicles — with a blunt knife and no pain relief. We'd call him a sadist, a psychopath, a monster. We'd prosecute him for felony animal cruelty. Now imagine he called his basement a farm and added thousands more animals in worse conditions. We'd call him a pork producer. And we'd grant him legal immunity from our animal cruelty laws.

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