“They’ve never experienced love. ... That little bit of water we give them — that’s probably the only love they’ll ever experience.”
, a network of activists who promote veganism and “bear witness” outside slaughterhouses around the world to what they say is the innate cruelty of modern-day meat production.
“I was around farm animals growing up,” said Davis, an Indiana native. “But I never saw them on a transport truck all crammed up like that. It was a surreal moment of me going to a car to get lunch afterward, and they were going to get gassed.”in 2017 of criminal mischief for giving water to pigs before they went into a slaughterhouse — asked Davis to head a group in Los Angeles. Davis said she wasn’t ready then.
“We’re against oppression, and animal agriculture is full of oppression,” she said. “Farmers are oppressed. Farmer John is next to low-income areas. And the smells. There’s just rampant oppression all around, and we’re not OK with any of it.”As people at the vigils give the condemned pigs water, the connection they feel with the animals, often instantaneous, is understandable.
The Sunday and Wednesday vigils are virtually identical except for length: The Sunday protest lasts two hours; Wednesday’s goes on for four. Organizers line electric tea candles on the sidewalk just outside the gates and set up a table to sell T-shirts and bumper stickers. The trucks’ routes are familiar: They always head east on Vernon Avenue after making a left from Soto Street, about a football field away from the plant’s gates. Their diesel engines, wide turns, and tall, distinctive trailers announce their arrival.
“Seeing how thirsty they were crushed my heart,” said Theodore Diep of Santa Ana, another first-timer. “At least I could do something for them in the last bit of their life.”Malibu psychotherapist Wayne Johnson, who has attended every Sunday night for over a year, walked around with a portable speaker that played soothing music better suited for a spa.
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