New USDA Nominee Is A Psychopathic Ghoul Who Wants To Lock Pigs In Crates Where They Can't Move

The cruelty is the point

From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men.

—M. Frida Hartley

One of the cruelest industries on earth, the factory farming industry, responsible for the torture of billions of animals, is likely to become even crueler. Trump’s pick for head of the USDA is an evil hag who supports locking pigs in crates where they can’t move, as well as providing mass subsidies for factory farms. The image shown below is what the crates look like.

There is a special place in hell for such people; those who value lobbyist money over the lives of the more than 100 million pigs who are slaughtered each year—these gentle creatures deserve better than this. Pigs are smarter than dogs; they deserve more than a lifetime in a crate where they can never turn around. Could you imagine forcing your dog to live like this for her entire life? That kind of evil mistreatment of animals is going to be inflicted on hundreds of millions of pigs if Rollins succeeds. Those who deliberately torment the innocent and vulnerable are depraved in a particularly perverse way.

In fact, not only is Rollins supportive of allowing these crates to be used, her position is even more extreme, almost beyond belief. Several states have passed laws making it illegal to keep pigs in crates and have restricted several other particularly heinous forms of animal cruelty like locking chickens in tiny cages. Huge pork-selling factory farms aren’t pleased about this, as it’s inconvenient for them when they can’t lock pigs in crates in certain states. Rollins has expressed support for the EATS act, which makes it illegal for these states to ban locking pigs in crates. Not only does she support crating pigs, she has so little regard for federalism that she supports prohibiting states from establishing even minimal animal welfare standards.

Some may be shocked by my strong language, calling Rollins an evil ghoul. In my defense, however, she is an evil hag. If Rollins was found locking pigs in tiny crates in her basement, would anyone object to my language? Certainly no one would object to that characterization if she was found treating dogs that way. How much worse is it, therefore, to support, for personal gain, locking literally millions of animals in tiny crates. Being a bootlicker for those engaged in industrial-scale animal cruelty makes Rollins a worse abuser of animals than even the most sadistic dog torturers, just as Eichmann and Hitler were worse villains than Bundy or Dahmer. It’s much worse to cause, through legal machinations, hundreds of millions of animals to suffer profound cruelty than it is to be cruel to a single animal.

When Kristi Noem wrote proudly about having murdered her dog in cold blood, her bid for vice president was effectively over. But it’s much worse to take efforts to lock hundreds of millions of pigs in cages than to just kill a single dog. However badly you think of Noem as a result of her penchant for shooting puppies (and goats), you should think much worse of Rollins. However badly you think of those who torment little animals for their own pleasure, Rollins is far worse.

In the clip that sparked the recent firestorm—one that has now been made private on YouTube because all the commenters, even those of conservative bent, had the good sense to recognize that supporting grotesque animal cruelty is despicable—senator Jodi Ernst complained to Rollins about the indignity of California banning locking pigs in crates. Ernst was bothered that this makes it difficult for Iowans to sell across state lines the flesh of pigs who spent their life confined so totally that they never turned around except immediately before slaughter.

In response to Ernst’s pity party for multi-billion dollar Iowan animal torture facilities, Rollins explained that while she’s a big believer in federalism, banning animal cruelty falls far beyond permissible federalism. As one’s right to swing one’s fist ends at another’s nose, one’s right to prohibit animal abuse ends at the abuser’s fist and crate and blade. States shouldn’t be allowed to ban animal cruelty if that inconveniences other states who’d like to sell them tormented, crated, and caged animals.

Being locked in crates isn’t the only indignity that pigs suffer at the hands of the lucrative factory farms that make billions of dollars annually. Other routine yet horrifying kinds of mistreatment that pigs endure include:

• Being gassed to death.

• Choking and roasting to death on 150 degree steam.

• Being castrated with no anesthetic.

• Having their tails and teeth ripped out with no anesthetic, often by unskilled workers who sometimes have to tear them off with dull pliers.

• Being genetically modified to grow much too quickly, leading to constant pain.

• Being forced to live in so much filth and feces for their whole lives that most of them get pneumonia.

• Being crammed into transport where they have only half a square meter of space on average.

But apparently, in the eyes of Rollins and Ernst, the real injustice isn’t the torture of animals by the billions but the fact that a few states have taken mild efforts to ban the cruelest of these practices. These pro-welfare extremists have made it so that pigs can only be castrated and kept in filth and feces for their entire lives, rather than allowing them to also be kept in a tiny crate where they couldn’t move!

There’s no excuse for treating animals like this, least of all for trying to make it illegal for states to stop animals from being treated like this. It’s disappointing that Trump has marginalized the pro-animal-rights people in his coalition—like RFK Junior and Vivek who are strongly opposed to factory farms. Instead, he has chosen to appoint industry bootlickers who regard efforts to ban animal torture as inconvenient hinderances to industry profit.

A while ago, Vivek Tweeted about the hope that animal rights would become a major priority for conservatives. Vivek is a vegetarian and actually seems serious about animal welfare. Laura Loomer, in response, said:

This shows just how confused our thinking is about animal welfare. Trump did pass a bill heightening penalties for the sick sadists who get off watching animal torture videos. Good for him! But you can’t be serious about taking on animal cruelty without taking on the factory farms. There are millions of animals being tortured in factory farms for every one animal tortured for the pleasure of a sexual sadist. Factory farming is the greatest source of animal cruelty on the planet today. Saying you oppose animal cruelty while you help the factory farms lock pigs in crates too small to move in is like a Chinese politician saying they oppose cruelty against dogs, while they pass laws making it so that dogs can be kept in cages too small to turn around in.

If you want to get serious about animal welfare, you have take on the factory farms.