Rape racks & re-routed penises

[astro]

I had no idea pig breeding involved this! :eek:

Before Farrowing
To ensure the ‘quality’ of pigs, over the years the industry has bred in traits that will produce the type of muscle structure, fat content and taste which makes the product the most profitable. There was a time when hogs had to breed naturally because, unlike cattle, their semen could not be frozen and it was difficult to transport fresh. Sure, once in a while a boar is let loose with the tethered sows at the rape rack, but more often now the industry thrives on the latest technology and even door to door delivery of fresh hog semen to ensure superior breeding traits. In Minnesota a company called TruAI Inc. uses just such a system, employing complex computers, isolation barns and a whole fleet of refrigerated trucks. When they get their load, the animal factories are only too happy to artificially inseminate their sows. This way they have reduced the risks of bad traits in their pork with superior semen to that which their boars might have and the sows can be impregnated more often.2 If you ever doubted how much the industry values the breeding of superior pork, just listen to what one Fletcher’s executive said when speaking of the company’s massive expansion to help serve new markets overseas. “New products must be replaced with even newer products at a faster pace today. We have to continue to develop products that stay abreast of trends, such as health issues like… low fat and… flavour trends.” 3

Through this whole process, the ‘inferior’ boars are usually simply slaughtered. With most of the males castrated early in life, the ones that are left as breeding stock but don’t measure up will meet one of two fates. They’ll either just be slaughtered for by-products or they will live out their days as estrus detectors or ‘sidewinders’. These unfortunate males are allowed to keep their maleness in a truly unique way. When it is determined that they don’t have the goods for breeding, their penises are surgically re-routed to come out the side of their flank. This way they can detect or speed up estrus in the females, but when they mount to finish the deed, they simply give up in frustration. The farm then completes the transaction with some of the superior stock delivered fresh to their door earlier that day. 4

[Rysdad]

“Inside the meat machine” doesn’t refer to a rape rack, does it?

[Sunspace]

After people read this thread, I suspect the world will gain a number of new vegetarians.

Rape rack? :: shudder ::

[Argent_Towers]

@Sunspace

After people read this thread, I suspect the world will gain a number of new vegetarians.

Rape rack? :: shudder ::

Why would someone who would eat the flesh of another creature give a damn what happened to it beforehand?

[Rysdad]

@Argent Towers

Why would someone who would eat the flesh of another creature give a damn what happened to it beforehand?

Because I like my baby back ribs happy.

[deevee]

@Argent Towers

Why would someone who would eat the flesh of another creature give a damn what happened to it beforehand?

You can’t be serious. Being a carnivore does not equal being cruel.

[aruvqan]

Actually I have to wonder about the original article.

I know several pig farmers, two in western NY and one here in CT. Both NY farmers produce something on the order of 2500 pigs a year [not small farmers by any means] and the one here in CT just under 3000 … and they don’t treat their sows like this They do inseminate the sows [boars can be aggressive] but each sow has a small [10’x10’] stall with chip bedding in it that they go into when they are a few weeks from delivery, and 3 months after [when ready to start weaning]. Other than then, they are in the paddocks with the rest of the sows and young pigs.

Maybe they treat them like that in some farms, but that level of industrialization/factoryness can be seriously expensive to replace a traditional farm with. Pigs are pretty damn easy to actually maintain and care for compared to thoroughbred horses and some types of cow …

[Llama_Llogophile]

Rape racks, eh?

Does the S/M & D/S community know about this? Could be a huge untapped market.

[danceswithcats]

Band names, definitely. They should tour together.

[johnsonlnl]

The article in the OP is too slanted to even be referred to. I work with hundreds of hog farms. There is no such thing as ‘raping’ of sows. Either the sow is in heat and wants to be bred, or the sow is not in heat and will refuse to be bred. If a sow is not in heat and is somehow bred, she will not get pregnant. No hog farmer is going to waste semen trying to forcibly breed a sow that is not in heat.

And the part about the boars having their equipment re-routed? Good grief. A substandard boar that is used for heat checking at the most would be vasectimized (sp?) - the same operation done on humans.

Since this is MPIMS and not GQ, I’ll let the rest of their BS go this morning. But, i f an organization wants to convince people not to eat meat, they should just come out and say it. Trying to accomplish their goals through misinformation like this is ridiculous.

[Max_Torque]

@Argent Towers

Why would someone who would eat the flesh of another creature give a damn what happened to it beforehand?

Lisa: Don’t you have anything that wasn’t horribly slaughtered?
Homer: I think the veal died of loneliness.

[Malacandra]

@Mach Tuck

Rape racks, eh?

Does the S/M & D/S community know about this? Could be a huge untapped market.

They don’t need to read about pig breeding to know about it. Those who get their inspiration from the Gor series heard about rape racks many years ago, take my word for it.