[Straits Times] Belgian men are being urged to 'Let-em hang!' and go brief-free on Friday by animal rights campaigners bent on ending the pain of the five million piglets castrated in the country each year.'Through the 'Let 'em hang!' campaign we are seeking to convince farmers to allow their piglets to let them hang too,' said animal welfare group Gaia in a statement issued to save animals from a knife administered without painkillers.
'We are hoping for mass participation so that supermarkets stop selling pork from castrated pigs,' added campaigner Michel Vandenbosch.
Gaia said it was asking men, 'who can easily imagine the suffering caused by live castration', to leave their briefs and boxer-shorts in the cupboard September 9 'to show solidarity' with the pigs. Women should 'hide their partners' underwear'.
| Y'know, if they gave up eating little dead piggies and switched to overstuffed goose liver instead, no fluffy little piggies would need to lose their cute little male bits. Of course, their mommies wouldn't have been given the opportunity to give birth to them, but that's life when you're a consumer product. |