Animal Trial

Poor pigs. Most people blame them for the swine flu that has killed around 6,394 people. It's not like a pig in Mexico planned this. Now, the poor pigs are being pushed aside. According to wikipedia, "despite its origin in pigs, this strain is transmitted between people and not from swine to people." That means that if you touch a pig, you are not exposing yourself to a terrible pandemic flu. Apparently people don't want to understand this. On April 29 of this year, the Egyptian government ordered to slaughter all pigs in Egypt. Seriously? Why don't you go ahead and slaughter the people that have swine flu too? Since pigs can't talk or defend themselves, you just go on killing them. What an ignorant decision.
This isn't the first time pigs are judged unfairly. I found an article in The New York TImes written in 1897 called "Proceedings Against a Pig". It starts off with: "The animal which most frequently came before the criminal courts was the pig." Then it talks about this case in France where a pig killed a child and ate part of his face and arm. The pig's snout and leg were cut off before it was hung. You could say this is poetic justice; the pig eats the child's face and arm, go ahead and cut his snout and leg. But not only did they torture the pig. They dressed him in human clothes before the execution. How ridiculous is this! According to the New York Times article, around twenty cases similar to this one have been recorded in France.
There are two things that really piss me off about this. First of all, it's not like the pig carefully developed a plan to kill the child. We're always hearing things like animals can't tell from right or wrong. They have no soul. Well, then I don't see how this pig could possible be guilty. Not only did this pig have no soul. He had no voice either. There was no way he could defend himself. Even gruesome murderers have a lawyer defending them. And those murderers actually knew what they were doing! That leads me to the second thing that really bugs me. How can a guilty disgusting man who rapes and kills children be out of jail after twenty-five years, while a pig who didn't act on purpose be tortured, humiliated and hung? SERIOUSLY! What's wrong with our system?