1,000 Starve to Death on Farm
(Extracted from Care2, http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/1-000-starve-to-death-on-abandoned-pa-farm/ )
1,000 Pigs Starve To Death On Abandoned PA Farm
(posted by: Desirai Thompson)
On Monday, up to 1,000 dead pigs were discovered on an abandoned Fulton County, Pa., farm. The owner left the farm in August, leaving the hundreds of hogs to slowly die of starvation. Among these decayed bodies were also what appeared to be the remains of six calves.
A Humane Society police officer with Better Days Animal League, Dennis Bumbaugh, said he’s never seen anything like it. “I was horrified when I opened the door and saw what I saw,” he stated Tuesday.
The farm is owned by a recently separated couple, Daniel and Kerron Clark. Kerron hadn’t been to the farm since 2008, arrived Monday, and was horrified by the carnage Daniel left.
The 218-acre farm with a listing price of $1.2 million has two hog barns. This is where the pigs spent their miserable, dying days. There is evidence that some tried to escape, and that the few who were successful, didn’t get far before collapsing and dying just outside of the barn. “It was a horrible situation,” Bumbaugh said. “They struggled and fought to get out.”
Not only are pigs intelligent animals, they also are social, protective creatures who make strong bonds with each other. Imagine the anguish they felt not only with the hunger in their stomachs, but also witnessing the slow death and suffering of their brethren.
When Farm Sanctuary, the leading farm animal protection organization in the country, heard of this willful neglect, they called for the individuals responsible to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Union Township Supervisor Gary Sheeder, an acquaintance of Daniel Clark, was appalled upon hearing the news. “This is unbelievable as far as I’m concerned,” he expressed. “I can’t believe, with as many kids as he had, that life didn’t mean more to him.”
(Photo extracted from Public Opinion, http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_16569324)
(Photo extracted from Public Opinion, http://www.publicopiniononline.com/localnews/ci_16569324)
(Photo extracted from: Free from Harm, http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/farm-sanctuary-seeks-justice-upon-discovering-nearly-1000-pigs-starved-to-death-on-pennsylvania-farm/)
I have a deep inner feeling which is very powerful and rarely incorrect. I bet if you showed me 10 pictures of large barns, none of them would compare to the deep, low feeling of murderous suffering that I get, automatically by looking at this particular barn. I focus on other parts… the towers… Not the same feeling I get when looking at the barn. Perhaps I am channeling my personal feelings for the incident, itself, or perhaps I can actually ‘feel’ a place that has had hellish suffering directly inside, all drawn from a mere picture. I look at that barn, and I want to puke. That is just the outside building! The mind is very powerful!
The only word that comes to my mind over and over again when reading this story is….WHY? Why would this man just walk away to allow this to happen? WHY????
Because of 2 people who are separated and having trouble and problems have selfishly abandoned a farm leaving 1,000 pigs together with 6 cows to starve and slowly die from starvation. The farm was discovered by a Humane Society Officer Dennis Bumbaugh and was horrified at the discovery of all dead pigs. The couple because of their incompatibility and misunderstanding and anger has left and abandoned 1,000 pigs on the farm. By concentrating on themselves and having no compassion have indirectly killed the animals and also create the cause for Daniel and Kerron Clark to have very bad karma to be born into the lower realms. Daniel and Kerron may not have been a Buddhist. But I think the pigs in their past lives may have cause tremendous harm in one of their live times to Daniel and Kerron.
I really do not understand why the man walked away from this barn. Was it on purpose or did he not know the fate of these poor creatures. I really hope that there would be no more cases such as these. If humans do not like neglect, would pigs like neglect? The answer is no! Animals are like humans as they have feelings too. We should treat them as if they do have feelings because they do. I just cannot imagine the suffering those pigs have to go through. First, They starve and they know that they would have a slow and painful death. Second, watching your siblings, parents or children suffer in front of you, that is really heart aching. I hope that those pigs would have better future lives as I believe that at least some of their bad Karma has been purified by their lives as pigs.
Because of 2 people who are separated and having trouble with their relationship has caused 1,000 pigs to starve to death when they selfishly abandoned their farm. The 1000 pigs and two cows died slowly from starvation. The farm was later discovered by a Humane Society Officer Dennis Burnbaugh and was horrifed at the discovery of all the dead pigs. The couple because of anger and having no compassion and concentrating on themselves only. They have committed 1,000 killings indirectly causing them David and Kerron Clark to commit very bad karma. If David and Kerron Clark are Buddhist and believe in Karma. The pigs may have harm this couple in previous lives also.