Target: Hugo Alfonso Morán, Spain Secretary of State for Environment
Goal: Stop mismanagement and negligence of pork agriculture industry from endangering pigs and wildlife.
In order to satisfy international markets’ insatiable appetite for pork, Spain has ramped up intensive farming practices for pigs. These highly produced, lowly regulated forms of agriculture are inevitably leading to the slaughter of more swine. Their destructive reach is now spreading to other animals.
Spain’s Murcia region hosts one of the world’s biggest saltwater lagoons, where scores of fish make their home. Beginning in August, the remains of these fish started piling up on shores. In an alarmingly short time, five tons of fish carcasses clouded the waters. The stench of death permeated a once-popular beach.
While algae blooms were initially blamed for this disaster, subsequent investigations have revealed that agriculture likely played a prominent role. Local government officials even banned fertilizer use around the lagoon. Yet they have taken no action on the poorly maintained pig waste dumps that could be pumping up to a quarter of poisonous nitrogen into the Mar Menor Lagoon.
Sign the petition below to demand more regulation on an out-of-control industry that is putting the lives of land and sea animals at risk.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Morán,
Critics have accused Spain of sacrificing its own natural welfare for the benefit of international consumers. The pork industry has exploded in recent years, due in large part to demand from other countries. In response, this government has seemingly taken a hands-off approach, with some skeptics claiming the industry is being granted amnesty without controls.
Your agency’s own report highlighted the potential major contributions of intensive pork farming to the nitrogen levels in areas like Mar Menor Lagoon. This aquatic habitat’s recent inundation of dead fish is both a symptom of the problem and a harbinger of worse ecological disasters to come. The pork agriculture industry needs more regulation and oversight, for the marine species inadvertently caught in its crosshairs and for the farm animals that are the greatest casualties of its relentless drive to get more for less.
Please reign in pig farms before they set off an even more devastating chain reaction.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Leah Kelley
EVIL BASTARDS!!! STOP THIS!!!
I agree humans are the utter ruination of this planet
I agree with your comment Dianne Parker.
I agree humans are the utter ruination of this planet. No living and innocent precious animal or wildlife is safe from the lowlife monster human species.
I agree with all you guys 100%
Humans are the cruellest animals on this planet!
I’m so sick of these Evil Scum ! Leave Animals the FK
ALONE!!! My God 🙏🏼
Man as a whole has no respect for life and this plant. 26 more species gone; extinct. Torture and death for human greed. Superior we are not.
Agree all comments so sick of these cruel cunts killing animals what’s wrong with this fucken world and people. Kill these fuckers. They are cruel with bull fighting too.
If you continue to sacrifice pigs, marine life or any living being YOU WILL PAY! You will lose in the end as shown by the loss of a once-popular beach. Keep it up and everything will be destroyed by your greed and your lack of compassion for God’s living creatures.
STOP these massacres and start enforcing protection and rights for all animals!!!! NO ONE NEEDS TO EAT MEAT!!!!!
Instead of SLAUGHTERING PIGS AND MARINE LIFE START SLAUGHTERING all THESE STUPID CRUEL HUMANS whom are SLAUGHRERINGBTHESE PUGS AND MARINE LIFE!!!
Best way – the ONLY way – to stop all of this horror is simply to switch to a plant-based diet. All the legislation and letters in the world will not put an end to this.
We need to stop eating animals. THEN all of this stops.
OMG😭 HOPE THOSE EVIL ABUSER’S SUFFER!!! MUST STOP HORRIBLE ABUSE ,,,, ASAP!!!
What’s wrong with humans they are so cruel to animals.als the governments are no better they pass a law to say animals are recognised as sentient beings that can feel pain then WTF ARE THEY DOING SLAUGHTERING THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS EVERY DAY FOR FOOD THEY SLIT THIER THROATS AND LET THEM BLEED OUT THAT IS CAUSING PAIN AND SUFFERING AND A SLOW DEATH THEY THEY HANG CHICKENS UPSIDE DOWN SLIT THIER THROATS THEY SQUAK LIKE HELL AND FLAP THIER WINGS UNTIL BY THE TIME THEY GET IN NEXT ROOM THEY ARE DEAD SO SO CRUEL . ANIMALS HAVE FAMILY TOO THEY HAVE BROTHERS SISTERS MOTHERS FATHERS THEY FEEL LOVE GIVE BIRTH CRY HAVE DEPRESSION AND SLEEP LIKE WE DO, ALL ANIMALS HEARTS SHOULD BEAT FOR AS LONG AS YOU WANT YOUR HEART TO BEAT SO LEAVE ANIMALS ALONE AND STOP THIS CRUEL INHUMANE AND SUFFERING YOU CAUSE TO THEM STOP IT NOW 😡😡
All this wholesale killing has to end. In case you’ve forgotten we do not have a planet ‘B’ to go when we kill this one off.
All the slaughter houses that are contaminating the waters must lose their business licences and be shut down. All the animals must be saved & transported to sanctuaries. All people involved in contaminating the waters must serve many years in prison with no early parole, each company fined millions of dollars, and all places shut down and no one ever allowed to open another place again. No one can own animals ever again
What else do you expect from a brutish country that also promotes other cruelty to animals such as bullfighting?
Hugo Alfonso Morán, Spain Secretary of State for Environment
Stop mismanagement and negligence of pork agriculture industry from endangering pigs and wildlife.
In order to satisfy international markets’ insatiable appetite for pork, Spain has ramped up intensive farming practices for pigs. These highly produced, lowly regulated forms of agriculture are inevitably leading to the slaughter of more swine. Their destructive reach is now spreading to other animals.
This vile and evil deliberate animal torture, suffering and an excruciating agonising death committed by the lowlife human monsters on our planet must be stopped and banned immediately.
I am absolutely sickened by the unimaginable atrocities of heinous torture and murder committed against precious and innocent farm animals and all our precious animals and the wildlife Worldwide.This is sadism and evilness at its worst.
No precious and innocent sentient beings Worldwide are safe from the vile and evil animal torturing murdering lowlife human species.
It is about time the lowlife animal torturing murdering human species was eradicated from the planet.
LEAVE ANIMALS ALONE!!!!!!
SPAIN can shake hands with CHINA as far as a HORRIFIC ANIMAL ABUSE is concerned! Spain is nothing but DEHUMANIZED, DESENSITIZED, SADISTIC AND PSYCHOPATHIC BASTARDS where animal-welfare is NON-existent. SHAME on YOU, you fucked-up MONSTERS!!!!!
Agreed!!!!!!
Evil POSs. Whomever condones this will live a short life.
Damn bastards!!! STOP THIS!!!
Back off and leave the animals alone!These evil cretin animal killers must be exterminated.We need to unite together to perform this procedure.A slow and agonising death for these evil cretins is essential
All cruelty and horrors to any type of animal MUST be severely punished and heavily fined…The cruel evil punks also must be removed from society as they are a menace to humans as well as animals….IMO
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE SO CALLED HUMANS, INSANE, NO JUST EVIL, CALCULATING AND WICKED. THEY MUST BE REMOVED, PUNISHED AND PUT AWAY FOR GOOD. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. CRUELTY IS NEVER, EVER ACCEPTABLE AND A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE IS WHERE IT SHOULD START. NOW GET ON WITH IT. VILE IS EVIL ANOTHER WAY ROUND!!