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?

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My driving instructor actually freaked out: she didn't realise that I was alert and moving round the mess [Sorry...shan't elaborate] and moved to grab the wheel to manoeuvre round because she thought that I was going to drive through.

She was a nervous wreck at the end of that drive: the next obstacle was an Orange Band, rehearsing for the 12th July. She was terrified of offending them and making her business a target for vandalism. (I'd beeped my horn at them...)

Well, as an estimated 90% of farmed pigs are slaughtered in gas chambers in the UK, I strongly suspect ‘gas’ was the natural cause here.

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This doesn't make sense. The slaughtered pigs would remain in the slaughterhouse because the carcasses are butchered. Far more likely that the lorry was transporting animals that had died on the farm so that the carcasses can be disposed of in accordance with the law, as several people who know what they're talking about have suggested.

They'd be in cling film in neat little pieces had that been the CoD, not littering the road en masse.

We passed this today on the opposite carriageway, they looked like they had been dead a while. Looked like a truck had tipped up as they were mainly together

That’s gross and also unfortunate. For the record, I think a hog roast is outdated. One step at a time.

They either died from natural causes, slaughter for meat or died in the accident. It doesn’t really matter does it.

I eat pork and bacon, but i don't feel sad. I don't really understand I would?

Disgusting! Those poor animals. When will we become compassionate about other living beings? Heartbreaking

It’s the dead cart. That’s what we call it. It transports dead animals to the burn house for incineration.

But they weren't living. That's sort of the whole point. The lorry shed it's load of dead animals. If they had been alive, got loose and were hit by cars, yes that would have been awful. But they weren't.

100% agree. If you are happy to shit a dead animal out your arse, then why would you worry about their journey from their barns to the gas chamber?

Sounds like deadlock. Pig transport is highly regulated by disease control regulations.

thats nice
meat eaters are allowed to be shocked and sad by this news

Is it a sequel to The Sweeney?

Sounds like fallen stock off to a rendering plant, shame they fell on the road will be a mess to clean up.