2,600 pigs perish in Gunma farm fire
GUNMA —
Police said Sunday that 2,600 pigs perished in a fire on a farm in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture.
According to police, the fire broke out at around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. TV Asahi reported that an employee called 119 after spotting flames coming from a pigpen. It took firefighters about six hours to extinguish the blaze.
Police said that the fire destroyed two enclosures covering about 1,950 square meters.
It was the second fire in the area in two days. Police said that a fire at a nearby pig farm on Friday killed 460 pigs.
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volland
This in a nutshell is the difference between Europe and japan.
On european TV and all other media you would be able to watch footage of the way these pigs have been kept...
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Ewan Huzarmy
This is the third event of this kind within six months ...... first were the chickens somewhere or other, then a pig farm and now another pig farm. Any connection ?
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zichi
Roast pork or an insurance scam?
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cleo
Surely there should be prosecutions happening here. 2600 pigs in 1,950 square metres? That's 0.75 square metres per pig, not allowing for walkways and troughs. Standing room only, literally. (If that).
Take a good long look at your morning bacon rashers, and contemplate why they're so cheap.
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cleo
There's a very brief glimpse of what appears to be the pens the pigs were kept in at the end of this news report. Four-legged battery hens.
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cleo
Oops, link - http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ann/news/web/html/230210015.html
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zichi
We don't buy meat from animal farm factories because not only is a cruel way to keep animals but also they are often pumped with a variety of drugs and the meat isn't as tasty as organic meats.
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Moonraker
Yes, farmers get a pretty smooth PR run here as either toiling mightily on our behalf or as dedicated members of the caring professions. This has more to do with the power of JA and the Ministry of Agriculture than anything else though.
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cleo
It has to do with people wanting cheap meat, not knowing or caring where it comes from and turning a blind eye when they do know.
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Farmboy
I don't know, maybe it's just my perception, but haven't there been an awful lot of pig accidents in Japan in the last few years? Pigs fall off a truck, pig fires here, pig fires there, here a pig, there a pig...
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David Quintero Navarro
Poor pigs! Also what a waste of yummy pork!
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25psot
Now is the time to think about mandatory sprinkling system on pig farms.
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