It's interesting. We take these animal conditions more or less for granted, but with a few tweaks the situation would turn into an incredibly fucked up horror movie. Like instead of piglets it's now adolescent humans hanging from hooks. Or sleeping in their own feces and being forced to cannibalize each other, even if it's "just" ground up bones. That's Texas Chainsaw Massacre type of stuff.

I still remember Baraka, that non-narrative documentary film in the spirit of Koyannisqatsi, and the part featuring the industrial sized conveyer belt. Or rather it feeding a never ending supply of baby chicks into what might as well could've been a wood chipper. You can't really compare animals to humans, but just think about the holocaust and audiences tearing up over Schindler's List. That shit happens every day and worse, but it's dumb animals and so most of us don't care. It's a nightmare, but here we are.

I'm somewhat of a hypocrite I guess, because I don't plan on becoming a vegetarian any time soon. I like my meat and eat lots of it. Always have. Still, these conditions are unacceptable and there are probably better, more humane ways of farming animals. Eating a little less meat might a be a good start though.