Piglet Falling
Su Strawderman
The tiny piglet likely fell from a transport truck bound for slaughter. Luckily, kind-hearted patrol troopers hurried to her rescue, digging through roadside vegetation and pulling Pearl to safety. She had no major injuries, just a bit of road rash.
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You've surely heard the phrase "when pigs fly," but have you heard of "when pigs run loose on an Ohio highway"? The latter collection of words isn't a real idiom, but one particular piglet escape may just change that.
When Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers were notified about a tiny piglet scurrying across U.S. Route 35 in Ross County, it became clear that the frightened little one fell off a transport truck. Though she took a rough tumble, enduring a bit of road rash along the way, this little piggy's serendipitous rescue had her crying "wee, wee, wee" all the way to her new home.
In a video shared on the Ohio State Highway Patrol's Facebook page on Sept. 8, 2023, two troopers work to get ahold of the squirmy swine in the unruly weeds and grass adjacent U.S. Route 35. She presumably escaped the truck on her way to slaughter for the meat industry.
Since 1912, the Ross County Humane Society "has been committed to the general welfare, shelter and placement of animals, prevention of cruelty and overpopulation, and education concerning humane treatment of all living creatures," per its official website.
Then nonprofit's Fresh Start Puppy Program, Pet Food Pantry, and "low cost" spay/neuter services are dedicated to making the lives of pets and their owners better. Unfortunately, its site makes no mention of escaped piglets roaming Ohio highways. Still, the RCHS welcomed Pearl with open arms.
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A man in a pick-up truck on a Washington highway was carrying a crate with piglets. He slammed on his brakes, the crate broke open and as he made a sharp turn each piglet fell out onto the highway to be hit by cars and killed. All but one, and she is Elsie!
Elsie was chased and caught to be crammed in a crate with others, totally traumatized with falling out of a moving vehicle onto a highway and seeing her siblings killed. Then chased and caught by her "rescuer" to be brought here!
Now Elsie must learn she is safe! This will take many hours of contact by me with medical treatments and intensive nursing care, giving fresh bedding, offering varied and frequent food samplings, cleaning up after her. Elsie will eventually learn she is free from harm and cared for. This will take a lot of work. This is the work of love. This is what we do at Pigs Peace Sanctuary.
When first here Elsie had painful, labored breathing sick with pneumonia. She was trialed with a second antibiotic after no recovery with a week of injections. After two weeks and a third powerful antibiotic her pneumonia was gone and she was able to survive anesthesia for x-rays of her damaged leg.
Elsie just had follow up x-rays with the worst results. My heart sank as I saw the x-ray and listened to the veterinarians recommendation of euthanasia now. Elsie will never be able to walk well, her good leg will break down trying to support the entire body. Pigs are genetically built with too much weight supporting all four limbs. They grow fast and as she grows large it will be unbearable. They are not like other species.
I brought Elsie back home to the sanctuary with the intent of giving her a life as a happy piglet with the others. She will have the best life she can until her body and her spirit say no more. This is all so sad to think about. Today I will do the best I can to give her joy.
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Lars Gradel said he was driving on Interstate 215 in Las Vegas late last week with his work partner, Rebecca Zajac, and her son, Colton, 7, when a truck carrying pigs pulled in front of them and a small piglet fell from the side of the vehicle.Advertisement
"His fate was to go to a fattening facility where he would be fed a lot, and then in about six to eight months, he would've been sent to slaughter," Pike said. "And now Lucky's going to be wallowing in mud and rooting around in the ground and digging little holes with his snout and eating watermelon and popsicles in the summer."
On an otherwise normal May day, drivers noticed a piglet falling off a truck on I-215 in Las Vegas and landing on the highway. Thankfully, Rebecca Zajac was one of those drivers who spotted him while traveling with her 7-year-old son and her co-worker Lars Gradel. They stopped to help the baby pig before he could get seriously injured.
Each of these factors is negative, from the first to the last, as far as the market is concerned: it is the sum of all of them that has caused this sharp market turnaround. It seems as if the market has done a 180; nine consecutive weeks of consistent price decreases attest to this.; nine consecutive weeks of consistent price decreases attest to this.
We all know the importance of human psychology in market behaviors; the pig market is no exception. Right now there is a thick cloud of uncertainty about the near future that drenches every pore. Moreover, it should not be forgotten that the current price of 1.803 is the most expensive in history if we look from January of this year backward. Keep an eye on this fact.
We believe that the market is coming down in search of a price level that is competitive to boost exports. As we know, Spain exports more than 50% of the pork it produces and we need to export at a good pace at all times. We depend on it.
The pig price will go down until the slaughterhouse has a sufficiently attractive margin to stimulate its business. We must bear in mind that in the four months from April to July what they have lost has been historic, real weekly fortunes. When the slaughterhouses start slaughtering, the price will not go down any further. We have not yet reached this point.
For the farmer, the "four excellent months" with unimaginable prices (touching the sky with their fingers) are over. Now it's time to wait and see what happens. For the slaughterhouse it seems that the bleeding has stopped and that it has gotten out of the unbearable hell; we will see if it can fix its balance sheet before the end of the year.
At the tail end of the whole chain are the long-suffering processors. Pig prices have dropped significantly, however, pork and cut prices have hardly moved at all. The fact that people have returned from their summer vacations has supported the pork market, in addition to the shortage of slaughter in Central Europe, whose pork surpluses are missed in Italy.
It seems to us that pork and cut prices will go down; on the international market, the prices that are being set have nothing to do with the European ones. Although the communicating vessels between the EU and the World Market are imperfect (the EU is very protectionist in our field), they exist. And they will be felt soon.
Whatever happens between now and the end of the year, the year will be good or very good for farmers. Not for slaughterhouses, since it seems impossible to recover what has been lost. Processors continue to suffer.
After months and months, the Spanish price has dropped to be in line with those of its community partners; the cause has been the difficulty in exporting to Third Countries, although the reduced slaughter in Central Europe has been a lifesaver.
Slaughterhouses will suffer a very complicated summer; in addition to the normal lack of pigs, there will be the absence of hundreds of thousands of piglets, victims of PRRS. Sooner rather than later, we will only be able to slaughter just four days a week.
We are witnessing a reconversion of the industry. We have seen a string of all-time record hog prices and now pork prices for processors are also rising, but large-scale distributors are only willing to raise prices in dribs and drabs.
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