On June 22, Anita Krajnc, a Canadian animal rights advocate, stood on the side of the road leading to Fearmans Pork Incorporated, a slaughter plant in Burlington, Ontario. Krajnc was, as she puts it, “keeping vigil” with a few other activists as truckloads of pigs were hauled to an abattoir that processes between 8,000 and 10,000 animals daily.
The afternoon was unusually hot—Ontario was in the midst of a heat wave—and, through the slats of a truck sitting at a red light, Krajnc recalls noticing that several pigs were panting, foaming at the mouth, and “looking at us for help.” She walked to the traffic island, approached the side of the truck, and gave several pigs water from a water bottle. “I didn’t think much of it,” Krajnc says.
[For more of this story, written by James McWilliams, go to http://www.psmag.com/nature-an...o-someone-elses-pigs]
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