Bill Maher, the social commentator wrote in the New York Times recently, an article about animal cruelty and specifically about pigs, where he talked about mother pigs being kept in crates, called gestation crates, their entire lives. They can’t even turn around. He asks would we cram a dog into a crate for that long and the answer is, of course we wouldn’t. Pigs are, at least as intelligent as dogs, as has been proven in various tests, so it is a colossal act of indecency to confine them in such a barbarous manner. He quotes the primatologist, Jane Goodall who wrote that ‘farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined…. they are