Belgian Campaign Starts to End Castration

For once pig farmers and piglets are in complete agreement: the barbarous and cruel practice of pig castration serves only to satisfy a pointless whim of German consumers – which is why it should be outlawed, insists Flemish poet and writer, Dimitri Verhulst.

He was writing in Belgian publication, De Morgen, which was translated by Press Europ.

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You can view the English translation by clicking here.

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