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"Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Hog Farm Management magazine, 1976 (i.imgur.com)
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EDIT: changed title to reflect that the original place saying the quote was the Hog Farm Management magazine rather than the Washington Post. The photo itself is from an article in the Washington post

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[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago

The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated as, a valuable piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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