Tranquility du Jour #350: The Last Pig, Part 2

The Last Pig Part II with Bob Comis. Hear his journey from pig farmer to vegetable grower and the challenges that came with the transition. Learn the truth about "humane" meat and slaughter and what he means when he says "it's about emotions, not logic."

Featured Guest: Bob Comis

For the first few decades of his life, Bob Comis was oblivious to the suffering of non-human (and human) animals. Thanks to the courage and bravery of undercover investigators who secretly capture and share footage of the twin horrors of factory farming and industrial slaughter, Bob was roused from his ignorance. He became a vegan, but quickly failed. Then he became a humane pig farmer, and quickly succeeded. He raised pigs for slaughter for ten years, until one day in January, 2014 a powerful vibration of empathy, compassion, and love overwhelmed him, and with the strength of the universal goodness that is our unfettered state of being behind him, he decided to quit pig farming, start a vegetable farm, and become a vegetarian (vegan, in January 2015). Today, when Bob pulls a beet out of the ground, or unearths a brilliant cluster of potatoes he is able to be fully present, which is very much the opposite of his experience when he farmed pigs, which he did from a distance, divorced from the moment, disconnected from himself.

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• Support their film and Indiegogo campaign {nearly 50% has been raised as of today}
• Websites: thelastpig.com and inlinefarm.com
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• Twitter: twitter.com/thelastpigfilm and twitter.com/inlinefarm
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• The Last Pig's first newsletter
• Bob's piece in Modern Farmer. Farm Confessional: I raise livestock and I think it may be wrong
• Bob's writing on The Dodo
• Bob's writing on Salon. Esther the Wonder Pig is wondrous indeed - but so are all pigs
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