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PETA, the venerable guardians of animal dignity, have made me aware of a very disturbing situation. It seems that a few cads at some high school in Pennsylvania are going to have a pig roast. Now I’ve heard stories of insensitive and ridiculous behavior at small high schools in America, but this just about takes the cake. A pig roast? Eating pork? This is an absolute travesty.

Luckily, PETA is on top of the situation and is prepared to stop the pig genocide:

On May 16, The Academy of the New Church, a private Christian school in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, plans to host a pig roast as part of its year-end festivities—despite the fact that pigs on factory farms endure lives of pain and suffering before being subjected to horrible, inhumane deaths. …

Although pigs are naturally peaceful and social animals, they resort to fighting and tail-biting when they are packed into crowded pens, and they develop neurotic behaviors when they are confined and kept in isolation. …

Please call or e-mail school officials to let them know that pigs are intelligent, sentient beings who value their lives and that they should no more be exploited for food and “fun” than the family dog or cat.

Pigs are just like humans: put them too close together and they bite each other. The similarities are really quite startling. And yet do we roast humans and eat them? Do we, I ask you? (Note: please exclude certain areas of Africa when answering this rhetorical question.) Nay, we do not roast and eat humans.

Anyone with a shred of sensitivity and class knows that humanity’s days of roasting animals to eat their flesh are past!—long gone!—finito! Let’s put this shameful practice behind us and follow the lead of the Belgians. You can help in the effort by encouraging the Academy of the New Church to stop the pig roast and start the sensitivity training.

If you’d like to join in this effort, here are some sample letters from some of my concerned friends. Follow their lead and protect the dignity of the beautiful, intelligent, and dignified pigs in this world.

Dear Peta,

I was ecstatic when I recieved the link to your site about the “Pig Roast” at the Academy of the New Church. To me, it seems outlandish and heathen to center an event around the death of such a smart animal. At the least they could have picked an animal that is not as “transient” [sic] as a pig, such as a cow or a chicken.

I mean, if they’re going to have a roast, why not roast a dumb animal–it’s more humane that way!

But do you want to know what really fries my bacon (so to speak)? Did you know they kill more than just one pig every year to feed the students at the dining hall. In fact, I would go so far as to say they kill 10! We need to defend those 10 pigs as well.

Hopefully, if we dedicate sufficient time, money and energy to our cause, we can rescue the life of that one pig that will suffer at the “Pig Roast.” Maybe we can even take on the rescue of those other 10 pigs.

Even though they aren’t roasted at the dining hall, they are fried and sauteed, and frankly I am not willing to let this slide. The way I see it, if we save one, we might as well save’em all. Being as smart and “transient” [sic] as they are, those other 10 from the dining hall might get jealous.

Bron

Dear PETA,

Thank you for standing up for the morals that so many of us have truly accepted and believe. How can people who consider themselves Christian commit such terrible acts or cruelty to an animal as intelligent as a pig? I’m glad there is an organization out there willing to tackle these big issues.

However, I’m concerned that what you’re doing falls short of the ideal. I have researched the Academy of the New Church and I became aware that they also serve pork products in their dining hall at other meals. This is a travesty that must not stand! Just because a pig roast is advertised as a ‘fun’ event, that doesn’t make it more important to protest than the drab everyday meals that involve cooked pig. How can PETA protest the eating of pork sometimes and rest on its haunches at others, as poor pigs are brutalized.

May I propose that a full out attack on every dining hall system that supports the dehumanizing and abusing of intelligent beings? If eating pork is wrong, and it is, we must not allow it to continue. I call to arms every truly enlightened human to fight in this war against the genocide of pigs. Let’s not stop at the Academy of the New Church.

How can we live in such a contradictory nation? When a few humans get killed Bush will spend billions to prevent further attacks on American soil, yet he lets the murder of millions squeak by right under his pallat every year? Doesn’t he see that pigs can feel too!? Terrorism is terrorism!

Thank you again for being the organization that champions my needs.

Respectfully,
Kevin

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