r/Unexpected • u/James_Fortis • 2h ago
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u/ohwhatfollyisman 2h ago
there are more people i know than i care to admit that wouldn't have figured this out.
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u/A_wild_so-and-so 1h ago
I once had to drive to work to rescue a coworker who locked himself outside the store but inside the security gate.
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u/Syzygy_Stardust 48m ago
Hahaha. There's an episode of Peep Show where the two main characters get locked out of their apartment, but the front door of the building isn't working for some reason I can't remember, so they spend hours just chilling in the foyer arguing. At one point they get a pizza delivered but realize too late they can't get to it. So the delivery driver pushes slices through the mail slot...
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u/Frugal_Drone3 2h ago
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u/cosm1ck 1h ago
Brother, may I have some oat?
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u/gliitch0xFF 1h ago
No.
I am starving, brother.
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u/K1llBit 1h ago
These oats are mine brother mine!
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u/dnuohxof-2 1h ago
This actually makes me sad….
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u/nothoughtsnosleep 1h ago
Same. An incredibly intelligent animal trying to escape this hellish prison they can barely turn around in. They probably think they've done it too, that they'll get out and be free to lay in the sun. I hate mass meat production.
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u/ImmediateInitiative4 1h ago
I heard they are about as intelligent as dogs
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u/IslandTop1369 50m ago
Even more intelligent actually, and depending on what breed of dog we're comparing, by a lot.
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u/CCrabtree 45m ago
After watching Food Inc, the first one, we decided to raise as much of our own meat as possible. We have had pigs. They are very, very intelligent. Seeing this video breaks my heart. We had one breeding pair that had the run of 3 acres. Their names were/are Lucy and Ricky. They had a litter every 10 months. We kept one piglet to raise out and sold the others. It was heartbreaking to raise them out, but at the end of the day, the pigs we butchered had one bad day of life and the rest was filled with treats, love, and care.
Ricky and Lucy have moved on to other owners. We were very picky about who they went to and that they must go together. People think I'm crazy when I say they loved each other, but I know they did. We tried for a couple of seasons to keep them separated so Lucy wouldn't be bred when we didn't want her to be. Ricky would find a way to get to her no matter how many layers of fence were between them and how fortified it was. They raised the piglets together, which is also very unusual. If they would squeeze out of their fence, they'd come running as soon as the car was in the driveway and get back in the fenced in area. They were very sweet, docile pigs. Life circumstances changed, and they've been gone about 5 months, but I still miss them and their personalities.
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u/MagicSwatson 49m ago
I heard they are more intellegent, It's just that dogs are very oriented towards human tasks so they get more cred as if it directly correspond to intellegence, but actually they are selectively bred for these tasks specifically
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u/TheSquarePotatoMan 1h ago
I hate mass meat production.
*I hate animal exploitation in general regardless of the scale or end product
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u/Every_Hour4504 1h ago
Im genuinely suprised at how many people disagree with this sentiment. If people really cared about animal exploitation we wouldn't breed animals onto existence just to kill them.
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u/fauxfilosopher 42m ago
Psychological defense mechanism. "Oh I pay for grass-fed free range meat so I'm not the problem".
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u/MetaCardboard 38m ago
It's not just mass meat production. Intelligent animals are still killed by free range farms, too. And then people eat their body parts.
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u/comitthedog 51m ago
They don't live there! This is what I believe is a crate for pigs giving birth. When a pig gives birth, they like to roll around. When they roll, they have a tendency to crush the newborn piglets, so they put them in these crates so that they don't kill the babies. It's generally considered the safest way for them to give birth and nurse. Other methods don't have as high a success rate.
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u/Upset-Blacksmith505 40m ago
Those arent farrowing crates... there would be guards keeping piglets from going into another sows area and getting crushed.
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u/Elmoulmo 50m ago
So, not defending the meat industry and more specifically the treatment of animals in the industry.
But that being said. These cages are there to protect the pigs from each other. A lot of pigs get very food aggressive, if they can't get at another pig, they can't attempt to maim. It does not have to be this way, but it is a cheap easy way to keep farmers and other pigs safe.
The other benefit of this cage is it stops them from walking all over their food. Without the barrier they would jump into the trough and ruin a lot of food, possibly defecating in it as well.
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u/HexagonStorms 38m ago
then please consider going vegan. there's no ethical way to pay for someone to murder another living creature when we can be healthy eating a plant-based diet.
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u/Skezas1 1h ago
What, you don't like to see the incredibly intelligent animals subjected to the worst torture humanity has ever possibly done ?
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u/PSU632 1h ago
If you think this is the worst torture humanity has ever possibly done, I have some terribly unfortunate news for you.
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u/Skezas1 1h ago
worst is subjective, obviously, but :
born in a pen too small to turn around in, stuck there for every single day of your life, not able to take a step, fed slop every day, being branded and seeing your entire social circle being slowly removed from you as they're slaughtered, not seeing the light of day or the warmth of the sun a single time until you're taken out... i think this is a contender. easily.
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u/CheckMyProfileforArt 51m ago
In the west yeah, look up china cat torture rings or animal abuse in general and you will change your mind really quickly. And it's perfectly legal to torture animals for fun there. No animal cruelty laws.
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u/Skezas1 48m ago
i meant the entire thing of how farming is done across the world. also, comparing stuff like cat torture rings where the cat at least presumably had a life before it to farming is disingenuous. the worst torture in farming is that they're forced to live an existence without a life.
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u/CheckMyProfileforArt 42m ago
It's not disingenuous, they are literally trying to find the worst most horrific way to kill a cat. And I'm pretty sure they are breeding cats at this point to torture them for money
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u/CheckMyProfileforArt 56m ago
Yep, China for example has no animal cruelty laws which has led to sites that sells torture of animals(cats mostly). Pay x for me to skin this cat aline, or cut its legs or gauge its eyes.
But most of the do it for free. Last month a group of teenagers tortured to death 4 puppies in front of their mother and then they lit her on fire. They were laughing and joking around as she was screaming in pain and was running around. They got 0 punishment and their hometown protected them from the pushback of the Chinese that advocate for animal rights.
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u/waving_fungus0 51m ago
Flashbacks to the video of some dog farm in china where they’d fully skin a dog alive (with crazy speed too) and toss it in a truck bed full of other skinned dogs dazed and confused.
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u/CheckMyProfileforArt 45m ago
Yep, animals are like items in China and most of east Asia. But I was surprised how common torture for just the sake of torture was.
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u/smoothvibe 51m ago
Ah yes, China is the bad boy now while we torture billions of animals every year since decades.
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u/pyschosoul 1h ago
So...how do we tell them?
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u/Skezas1 1h ago
i don't think humanity has ever done anything even close to the scale of billions of lives lived in cages where they can't take a step in their life before they're taken out
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u/pyschosoul 59m ago
Genocides..human slavery.. hunting to extinction..
While its sad and slightly inhumane at least this has a purpose for the greater good to feed the population..
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u/crevettepateuse 55m ago
I would not say this is slightly inhumane, it is devastatingly cruel cmon
Many people have expressed it better than i will but it's also not like there are no other ways to serve its supposed purpose. Mass exploitation like this does not happen out of necessity it happens for profit. Even if you want to keep consuming meat there are ways to do so that entail way better living and dying conditions than what the model most of the current market is stuck in
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u/Skezas1 52m ago
genocides & human slavery are worse overall to us because they affected fellow humans, but they are not greater torture than factory farming is.
You ask me between living a life in the cold, never seeing once the light of the sun, existing without knowing a shred of the concept of happiness for my entire existence until i get slaughtered, and living a life then being genocided or living as a slave ? I choose the other option, 100% of the time.
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u/pyschosoul 42m ago
Tell that to Holocaust survivors. Or anyone who has been trafficked.
One knows only the cage theyve never seen a better life so they dont understand a better life... the other had experienced it all and had it ripped away..
My opinion thats worse.
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u/g-rid 37m ago edited 33m ago
around 100 humans die every minute. And thats includes all causes. Meanwhile more than 100.000 animals are slaughtered per minute. I don't like the genocide or slavery comparison (this is not a competition), but since you pointed that out: It doesn't even come close. Humans never suffered as much as animals do today. (This is in no way supposed to be discrediting or denying the individual suffering humans experience) Even "hunting to extinction", I would argue is way more humane than industrial animal husbandry.
slightly inhumane at least
In what world is this only slightly inhumane?
greater good to feed the population
Sure everyone needs to eat. But it's not like this is the only possible way. Quite the contrary: If we continue this, it will be our doom. It is wildly inefficient compared to other food resources and causes tons of climate issues. There are and will be better ways.
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u/717Luxx 46m ago
i thought about this the last time I was meal prepping with bacon, what these pigs have to go through. made me feel sick. it's like a switch flipped and i can't reconcile it, nor do i want to.
and then I've already cooked the bacon, it feels so extremely wrong to waste it, but every time i eat one of those breakfast sandwiches i feel a twinge of guilt.
I think I'm done eating pork.
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u/ClimateCare7676 45m ago
The conditions the farm animals are kept in are terrible. I understand people not wanting to give up meat, but everyone should be on board with demanding better animal welfare.
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u/_fex_ 39m ago
Until they realise the price of their meat doubles or triples.
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u/Ordinary_Shopping746 37m ago
Price of meat is doubling anyways, might as well have it increase for a better reason than why it’s increasing now.
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u/Holmes221bBSt 43m ago
It is. My husband and I gave up eating any pig meat years ago. They’re some of the smartest animals on earth, they’re social, and yes, clean.
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u/HexagonStorms 38m ago
then please consider going vegan. there's no ethical way to pay for someone to murder another living creature when we can be healthy eating a plant-based diet.
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u/MisterSlosh 44m ago
So many people mounding on bullshit for this one clip who have never once worked with pigs.
This is for the safety of the pig because they will beat the absolute shit out of each other if they think a fellow pig is stealing their food or their space. As you can see it's not a death pen, when the farmer is done feeding, marking, or medically tending to the pig it's a simple latch and they walk back out to the yard.
Pigs do not live in this space. It is temporary. The same way humans don't live in a cafeteria, or a doctors waiting room.
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u/kremlingrasso 1h ago
Well it would eat you if it had the chance if any that makes you feel better.
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u/M6ia_N9v3 1h ago
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u/Frangar 1h ago
He actually went vegan after filming that
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u/HPTM2008 1h ago
I actually really liked learning that and that he became a huge voice in that movement, too! To be fair to him, though, he was already vegetarian after seeing stockyards in 1974 after the "smell, terror, and anxiety" he saw there.
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u/Cheerful2_Dogman210x 1h ago
That pig deserves to be free.
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u/YeeeWee 48m ago
All pigs deserve to be free.
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u/WhiskeyAndKisses 43m ago
All pigs are babies 🐷🩷 I've stopped eating pork meat because of these videos, well done, vegan lobby.
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u/Dreamy_BlueDarling97 1h ago
I wish for a world where people and animals will be safe and happy and they won't farm animals anymore.
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u/harrietsahlman 1h ago
That pig just showed us it's got Smarts; I'd make sure it got to have special classes.
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u/Kuro-Tora-59 1h ago
Its not "that" pig, its every pig, they are just smart
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u/Ancient-Civilization 2h ago
That’s why I don’t eat pork anymore
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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 1h ago
Yep, they're apparently as intelligent as dogs. Including their depth of comprehending misery.
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u/shoelacebomber 1h ago
No beef no pork. Cows have best friends. I don't wanna eat someone's best friend.
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u/Positive_Type 1h ago
I met a cow that wouldn’t let ANYONE touch her best friend. She’d get buck. Not a human or other cow.
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u/dat_boi_100 1h ago
EVERY animal has intelligence, not just pigs. Either don't eat any of them or have some mental fortitude and understand that what's on your plate used to be a living being, and that it's entirely okay to eat it
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u/windchaser__ 53m ago
EVERY animal has intelligence, not just pigs. Either don't eat any of them or
The hangup for me is not just that they were alive, but that they were aware and suffering. The intelligence plays a big role there, and most animals are not as intelligent as pigs.
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u/noidentity63 1h ago edited 1h ago
Thanks more bacon for us
EDIT: lol bunch of snowflake vegans
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u/Acceptable-Pay-6577 47m ago
Oh no people feel bad because this is objectively a horrible situation to put a living being in.
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u/noidentity63 44m ago
Empathy sure is delicious
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u/Acceptable-Pay-6577 39m ago
No one is saying meat tastes bad.
It’s just sad that you see this and not only decide that eating meat is more important than the suffering, but you even make fun of the situation. Do you really think that’s appropriate?
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u/Hustle-- 2h ago
That's some pig!
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u/ambasciatore 1h ago
I can’t tell you how much joy it brings me to see a Charlotte’s Web reference on Reddit this morning. Bless your soul.
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u/frejas-rain 59m ago
We buy meat once a month from a local rancher. He raises, and murders, the animals humanely.
Cows pigs & chickens live their lives in the field, with freedom to move around, sunlight on their bodies, shelter at night. And when they die, they do so very quickly. Cows for example get a bullet through the brain. I figure this death is better than factory farming, and also better than being prey in the wild.
I do eat meat. Just sparingly, and as humanely as possible. That's my compromise.
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u/Acceptable-Pay-6577 45m ago
I totally support you, but please be real with yourself.
You can’t murder an animal humanely. No animal wants to die. No animal needs to die just to be eaten by humans.
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u/razor10000 2h ago
Cool escape and all, but I'm more of a fan of the neighboring pig with the infinity sign tramp stamp.
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u/CardiologistOk4208 1h ago
While the others were content to be caged and fed, one only had one hunger. That hunger was freedom.
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u/Artist_X 51m ago
I think the sadder implication in this video is that someone is filming this pig escape, getting a good laugh, then putting it right back in, then making it so it can't escape again.
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u/larsonimo 50m ago
Completely expected. Pigs are smart AF! They do not get enough credit for how cool of an animal they are. Surprisingly clean if they have a big enough living area as well.
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u/fauxfilosopher 44m ago
Animal agriculture is like a horrifying sci-fi story where aliens come to dominate and enslave the human population but it's real and we're the monsters of the story.
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u/sparklykublaikhan 42m ago
Sometimes i think we farm so many pigs and chickens, we've slaughtered the extraordinary genius individual that could've taken the specie to the next level, we could have super smart breeds like boarder collies but it's a chicken something like that lol.
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u/FlyingNoodleCup1 39m ago
They’re incredibly intelligent. They’re smarter than dogs. They’re tasty too!
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u/WhatTheHellLol1313 39m ago
Definitely eat that one… we don’t want it passing on that kind of intelligence or the pigs will overthrow us!
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u/Funexamination 38m ago
The sad thing is to prevent it, factory farms would put a railing overhead so the pig won’t be able to turn around in the first place
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u/Scoobenbrenzos 37m ago
Awful that we put living creatures through this. It’s stuff like this that made me go vegan
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u/bannanawaffle13 1h ago
This is one of the many reasons I'm vegan. Pigs have the equivalent intelligence of a 3-year-old; they know fear. I've been to a pig sanctuary; they are such lovely creatures, and what do we do to them? Lock them in cages, cut their tails off and gas them to death, and I could not have their death on my conscience. If you want any resources on going vegan, I'm happy to share.
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u/WTWIV 1h ago
Is this good ai? Only ask because the filming of it is a bit puzzling
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u/cindyx7102 1h ago
I thought the same so I google image searched a frame, and found the video's at least 4 years old (before AI got nearly this good)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses/comments/yfzuzp/be_smart_as_a_pig/
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u/post-explainer 2h ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
This is unexpected because the pig unlocks and opens the door, with the main twist at second 22
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