“The Vampire Diaries” star Paul Wesley is urging pork industry giant Seaboard Corporation
to stop the cruel and inhumane practice of using pig gestation crates. The New Jersey-born actor wrote a letter to pork industry behemoth Seaboard Corporation
urging the company to end its inhumane use of gestation crates.
“Until relatively recently, I was oblivious to factory farming conditions innocent animals
endure on a daily basis. More specifically, I discovered that Seaboard insists on locking mother pigs
in tiny gestation crates, with apparently no plans to move away from that particularly inhumane practice,”
Wesley wrote.
Paul Wesley is calling for an end to cruel pig gestation crates, the extreme confinement
of breeding pigs in cages so small they’re unable to even turn around.
The barbaric practice confines breeding pigs for four months in crates so small
the poor sows are unable to stand or even move one inch in either direction.
Soon after giving birth the pigs are re-impregnated and then returned to the crate for the cycle to repeat. These intelligent,
extremely social creatures are forced to live like this, immobilized, for virtually their entire lives.
Seaboard is one of the largest pork producers in the United States and raises more than 4.3 million pigs annually.
Wesley went on to write:
“I can’t seem to comprehend how we, as inherently good people, still take part in some
of the cruel methods of the past. I urge you take steps toward eliminating outdated gestation crates,
both for the pigs at your mercy and millions of people across the globe who believe the way
we treat animals reflects our own humanity.”
Made famous playing the vampire with a heart, Stefan Salvatore on “The Vampire Diaries,”
Wesley proves his heart is even bigger in real life and asks his Twitter fans to help him stop the brutality:
@paulwesley: “Pigs are complex intelligent animals.
Please help me ban cruel gestation crates in NJ. http://www.humanesociety.org/nj“
Well, I've had a thing for Paul even before this, but now.......
