Pigs on the A14

[MummyWilbur]

A lorry load has shed multiple dead pigs onto the A14. Apparently the pigs died of “natural causes”. AIBU to think they didn’t die of natural causes, they died due to suffocation and overheating in a transport lorry.

Here is the news item from the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce345n6z0yzo

Surely the animal welfare organisations will be looking into this?

Heartbreaking

Omg 🥺😡😡😡😡

This is why I am a vegetarian, and why I don’t want to hear any moralising on any issue from people who eat meat.

😢

So were the animals dead before they were In the lorry?

Whether they were dead or not in the lorry why are they dumping corpses in the road?

That’s fucking awful 😢

There isn't much information. But sounds like it could be a fallen stock lorry.

I presume it was accidental rather than deliberate? Hope they were dead before they went in the truck though.

Have you read the story?

It doesn't look as though they 'dumped' dead pigs all over the road.

More that the lorry accidentally shed its load.

If anyone here eats pork or bacon and says they are sad, they can fuck right off! Hypocrites.

This is absolutely hideous! Totally agree with the PP about being vegetarian too.

Yes, I saw this in Fife many years ago - pig carcasses on the road between Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline: I was having a driving lesson and recall having to drive round them.

What’s this @laoa1 - does it collect dead animals from farmers? (City kid here, I know nothing of these things)

A similar thing happened in May on the A12.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/26145264.dead-pigs-spread-across-a12-woodbridge-closed-road/

yes, from various farms, I live in north scotland (so there may be some slight differences to england) but I will ring fallen stock and then I will be added to the route along with any other farms in the area and they collect.

Thanks @laoa1 sounds like it could be that (I certainly hope so anyway, something would have gone very drastically wrong if otherwise healthy animals all died during transportation)

I agree. Doesn’t fit the MN narrative though does it?!

Yes exactly this - and not just farm animals, horses, donkeys, llamas etc all have to be collected and cremated. You’ve not been allowed to bury dead stock for decades now.
It sounds like an unfortunate undignified accident, rather than a tragedy for those pigs. If you keep animals whether it’s a horse or a cat size at some point you’ll have to deal with disposal sadly.

That’s quite a leap to make. You’d be good at writing daily mail headlines! „Corpses strewn across the highway“.

Things do die and need transporting from a to b.

Sadly I think it is just an unfortunate accident. Transport companies are regulated by DEFRA and it is highly unlikely they died on the lorry. It was obviously fallen stock as per a pp.

Dont spoil it for the frothers! As an aside when we were in Cambodia a pig was being transported on the back of a moped. Alive. They are very shouty. The cow in Switzerland being airlifted acted with much more decorum.

We can’t comment as the full story is not there . The Information doesn’t suggest that they died on the lorry .

”I shall not ask you to repeat that manoeuvre.”

People on here love goading vegetarians. Dickheads.