Activité familiale canadienne

[Animal 0]

Piglet having shoulder dislocated during Pig Scramble at Brandon Winter Fair


Posing as "family entertainment", events such as the Pig Scramble are nothing more than cruelty.

Twice as many kids are put in a ring with piglets. Each child is given a garter belt which they must somehow get on a pig. Because there are more kids than pigs, many piglets end up being pulled in different directions. The terrified and often injured piglets scream during the entire event.

The once-darling kids in the audience scream to the kids in the ring "Poke 'em in the eye!", "Get him!", "Punch him!" and we also recorded kids yelling "I HATE pigs!". Clearly the aggression in the ring has a negative effect on everyone observing it.

What do such events teach children? Why has this become entertainment? And what infectious disease risks are we exposing kids to at such events?
Do these piglets then go back to confinement operations where they may spread disease back to entire herds?

Isn't it time we put such brutality in the name of entertainment behind us?


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[linda lachapelle 0]

Pauvre petit cochon, il a surment eu les pattes cassé ensuite??? en tout cas faut vraiment pas qu'ils ont rien d,autre à faire pour emporté leurs jeunes dans ces activités là.... moi en tout cas j'encouragerais jamais ce genre de chose là ni pour mes enfants.

[Animal 0]

Oui Linda, ce petit cochon a eu les pattes fracturées, comme tant d'autres chaque année...
C'est une activité courante dans les foires de l'ouest canadien...

[linda lachapelle 0]

Animal a écrit:

Oui Linda, ce petit cochon a eu les pattes fracturées, comme tant d'autres chaque année...
C'est une activité courante dans les foires de l'ouest canadien...

pauvre petit cochon...