mei mei: Where is the LOVE??

It's a compulsory for vet students to go for training in different farms during the holiday, so for the past holiday, it turned out to be no holiday for me. After going through the piggy farming, i realized that human could be very cruel. I dunno how the situation of farms in other countries is but in Malaysia, castration is very common and it is done almost to all piglets unless the piglet is off good breed which the farmer wants to keep it.

Castration has been scientifically proven that it promotes faster growth in animals. However, there's another saying that performing castration is also necessary to prevent the so-called "piggy" smell in the pigs. That's why piglets are castrated normally within 10 days of age. Well, due to the high cost of anesthetic drugs and large numbers of piglets, castration is normally done without analgesic (pain killer) or even sedatives. Thus, you would definitely give up doing castration when the piglets screamed like hell.. well.. unless you are cold-blooded.

People, you ask for it.. Or else, piglets wouldn't be suffered from such kind of pain and humiliation. Just imagine.. 2 minutes ago, you are still a male, but after that, you become the half male half female, how's the feeling?? Plus the pain at your too-too... Gosh.. I just can't take it.. Do you know how cute the pigl

ets are..?? How could people do that to them? Where is the animal welfare and animal right?? I may be overreacted but sometimes just feel for the animals, please... They have the nervous systems resemble yours. They do feel pain.. Though their brains do not have as many folds as yours, it doesn't mean they do not have any feelings.. They do have thoughts and intelligence. I saw two pigs trying to move the latch so they could open the gate, and finally they did so~!!

A very cute piglet with pinkish face and spottish body. I always played with it, err.. Perhaps it's a torture for it..