After literally years the Pig Trial will finally be coming to a close this Thursday March 9th 2017. Throughout the trial we have heard that Anita Krajnc, who has been criminally charged for giving water to a pig suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration in the summer of 2015, acted out of concern for the animals, as well as the environment, and the health of her fellow humans. Experts upon experts have testified on topics ranging from the environmental devastation of a non-vegan diet to the incredible emotional and cognitive intelligence of farmed animals such as pigs. This trial, which stemmed from an attempt to silence Toronto Pig Save, has brought international attention to the fight for animal rights, and since the first court date years ago, hundreds of groups have been created in countries all over the world and have joined The Save Movement. It is for these reasons that we can confidently say, though we do not yet know the legal outcomes of this trial, that we have won, for any advancement in the world’s compassion for nonhuman animals is a victory in our eyes.
Please join us outside of the Burlington courthouse one last time to show the world that you know that giving water to a suffering being, to show them compassion, is not a crime!!
Schedule: 8:00 am: Vigil at Fearmans slaughterhouse at the corner of Harvester Road and Appleby Line (821 Appleby Line, Burlington)
9:00-10:00 am: Vigil at the Burlington courthouse at 2051 Plains Rd E, Burlington, Ontario, L7R 5A5
10:00 am: Concluding arguments
A simultaneous slaughterhouse vigil will take place at Fearmans pig slaughterhouse, 10 minute drive from the courthouse.
If you are unable to attend, you can still follow! There will be live feed from both the courthouse and from the vigil on the Toronto Pig Savepage.
On November 1st, neuroscientist Lori Marino, who has a PhD in biopsychology, testified before Justice David Harris at the Pigtrial.
Marino discussed the cognitive and emotional abilities, and the behavior, of pigs.
“Pigs usually form social groups of several females and their offspring” — but can’t do that in a factory farm setting, said Marino, who has testified about a half-dozen times in the U.S. as an expert in animal psychology, but never before in Canada.
“Pigs certainly have personalities,” she said, noting they exhibit human traits such as curiosity, shyness and bullying.
“They have a sense of themselves in terms of a social community. Pigs and dogs are very similar in terms of sociability.
“They (pigs) seem to have the ability to tell time, and (exhibit) negative anticipatory behaviours when they have to go into confinement for a long time,” said Marino, executive director of the U.S.-based The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy.
She said pigs experience fear, joy and happiness and have “very good” long and short-term memories.
“They are at least as emotionally complex as dogs and as psychologically complex as primates.”
Marino said it’s unclear how to equate a pig with humans but that “it sells pigs short to say they are as sophisticated as a human toddler — they are more complex than that…. They are at least as cognitively advanced as monkeys.”
“Yes, they (pigs) are persons,” she said, noting that not just a human is a person. …………………………………………………………….
The next court session will be happening this Thursday from 9-5 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Burlington. While court is in session, a vigil will be held outside of “Fearman’s Pork” slaughterhouse where Toronto Pig Save and other Save Movement activists will give the pigs water and love in their final moments, just as we have been doing for years, and will continue to do. Please join us for the peaceful rally that will take place outside the courthouse (meet at 8:45am) and/or in bearing witness to the beautiful baby pigs. In the meantime, please share the #pigtrial story far and wide along with the message that compassion is never a crime.
On November 1st, neuroscientist Lori Marino, who has a PhD in biopsychology, testified before Justice David Harris at the Pigtrial.
Marino discussed the cognitive and emotional abilities, and the behavior, of pigs.
“Pigs usually form social groups of several females and their offspring” — but can’t do that in a factory farm setting, said Marino, who has testified about a half-dozen times in the U.S. as an expert in animal psychology, but never before in Canada.
“Pigs certainly have personalities,” she said, noting they exhibit human traits such as curiosity, shyness and bullying.
“They have a sense of themselves in terms of a social community. Pigs and dogs are very similar in terms of sociability.
“They (pigs) seem to have the ability to tell time, and (exhibit) negative anticipatory behaviours when they have to go into confinement for a long time,” said Marino, executive director of the U.S.-based The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy.
She said pigs experience fear, joy and happiness and have “very good” long and short-term memories.
“They are at least as emotionally complex as dogs and as psychologically complex as primates.”
Marino said it’s unclear how to equate a pig with humans but that “it sells pigs short to say they are as sophisticated as a human toddler — they are more complex than that…. They are at least as cognitively advanced as monkeys.”
“Yes, they (pigs) are persons,” she said, noting that not just a human is a person. …………………………………………………………….
The next court session will be happening this Thursday from 9-5 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Burlington. While court is in session, a vigil will be held outside of “Fearman’s Pork” slaughterhouse where Toronto Pig Save and other Save Movement activists will give the pigs water and love in their final moments, just as we have been doing for years, and will continue to do. Please join us for the peaceful rally that will take place outside the courthouse (meet at 8:45am) and/or in bearing witness to the beautiful baby pigs. In the meantime, please share the #pigtrial story far and wide along with the message that compassion is never a crime.
Three Save Movement activists in North America have now had run-ins with police over giving water to suffering pigs who had only minutes left to live. What do you call a society that has laws which allow for, and even encourage, the horrific torture and death of billions of the gentle and innocent, while prohibiting simple acts of compassion, other than broken? Only when we treat all beings with kindness and respect will we experience peace amongst ourselves. On which side do you belong; that of callous indifference, or that of compassion towards all? Neutrality never helps the oppressed, so there is no middle-ground here. You either believe that an act of compassion can never be criminal, or you believe in the sanctioning of violence and killing.
Please show solidarity with these activists and the animals they are fighting for by sharing their cases, attending any protests/demonstrations that have been scheduled, and/or attending vigils with a Save group near you. The next #compassionisnotacrime court session will be taking place on November 10th in Burlington, ON and is for Anita Krajnc of Toronto Pig Save. #govegan #pigtrial #smithfieldpigsave #torontopigsave #thesavemovement #activism #animalactivism #peacefulprotest #humanrights #feminism #ecofeminism #socialjustice #justice #justiceforthepigs #animalrights #animalliberation #loveforall #animals #showcompassion #love #compassion #kindnessmatters #liveandletlive
Another wonderful video from Bite-Sized Vegan that looks at the pigtrial; how it all started and what it currently means for the millions of pigs still enslaved by the animal agriculture industry. To put it simply; criminally charging co-organizer of Toronto Pig Save, Anita Krajnc has really backfired on the slaughterhouse/pig flesh industry as a whole.
The Pigtrial’s first court-date of the month is tomorrow! Please show your support by either peacefully protesting outside the courthouse, sharing information about the issue online, and/or attending the concurrent vigil for the pigs going to their deaths at “Fearman’s Pork” (the slaughterhouse which recently tortured and mercilessly killed the 200 pigs involved in the transporttruck crash).
