McDonald To stop Using Pork From Cruel Pig Farms

I posted this article on MSNBC Newsvine recently in a discussion about McDonald's announcement it had decided against using meat from unethical pig farms

The Chief, I am confused. Earlier in your post you you mentioned free range sows can accidentally lay on their piglets, that stronger sows will bite or bully weaker sows, or that free range pigs fight over food.

Did you or your father provide adequate food for your animals?

You sound like you and/or your father followed a strict regime for your ..okay..sows. Do you mean if a sow is slow to consume her food or is slow to react when food is supplied, she will have to go hungry as the food is quickly gone? Do you mean a sow has to go hungry because she's small and weak, as the food is supplied only in one container?

The solution to your problems is to provide enough food for your pigs, and provided in many containers so that they don't have to fight to stay alive.

I too came from a pig-rearing family. My father had up to a hundred at a time and he never caged his pigs or sows.

Pigs are always hungry and fast eater. Yes, occasionally I observed some smaller pigs got chased away by bigger pigs during meals, but nothing serious. The chased-away-pigs could and did rejoin the group to continue eating, as my father was not stingy with food for his animals.

As for the sows smothering its piglets, I also don't agree. The piglets had less, much less, a chance of being layed on by their mothers in the open than in the stalls, though the piglets can move about through the gaps at the bottom as you said. And the chances of mothers not recognising its young in the open is very rare.

Fund Raising Campaign For Stray Cats

Campaign to raise funds for cats care center. Please give a helping hand.

This is a donation drive; to raise funds for caring for about 70 cats. I am running out of money. My life saving which I have been relying on for more than a decade to run this center, to help ensure these stray cats have at least one meal per day and their medical needs attended to, is almost gone.

Welfare Home for Seventy Cats

Yes, you heard me. I am the owner and operator of the above Welfare home for cats.

Circumstances forced me to end up with the cats (and there were 11 dogs too).

The house was not even a properly built house when I came to own it; it's a shed of some iron frame structure covered with tarpauline roof. The reason I came to own it was because when the Lum Wah Ee hispital building was under construction, the owner was asked to vacate the shed and he tried to sell the iron frame structure and the tarpualine sheet to the highest buyer. I was one of the bidders besides Indian scrap dealers.

There were cats every where, all over the place.

Six gems

Family wants dogs put down

Patricia Sullivan-Vaucher, sister of Maurice Sullivan, the Irish tourist who was mauled to death at a Penang farm in January, wrote in an open letter that the family wants a closure to this sad event, and it should start with the death of the guilty dogs.

Who am I (actually)?

Well, actually I have written a few articles about who I am and how I came to be the way I am. But I just want to add that my day starts and ends with cats, everyday -- rain or shine.

Jenny and Kitty's story (How a Persian Cat changed a woman)

Hillside, Tanjong Bungah Year 2000

When I moved to my new house at Jalan Sungai Kelian which I had just bought after toiling for years to make it happen, I was aesthetic.

How a puppy made a difference in my life

In my younger days I repaired refrigerators and air conditioners as a way to earn a living. As I was doing well I became visible as a well-to-do man. Although I was proud of my achievement, I became the targets of charity seekers, who would descend on my shop with their motorbikes' fuel tank covers open, expecting me to do the needful (give them money to fill up). I never failed to oblige, though. Back then, unlike now, I could afford to be a bit generous.