{"id":756956,"date":"2019-05-03T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756956"},"modified":"2019-05-03T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:09:52","slug":"the-bahamas-swimming-pig-attractions-are-out-of-control-animal-rights-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756956","title":{"rendered":"The Bahamas’ ‘swimming pig’ attractions are out of control, animal rights advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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In huge waves, they made these pigs swim in water and they were not allowed back on the beach every time they tried to get back onto shore, and they are fighting for their lives, and people take photos with them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

RON HURTIBISE:<\/strong> ‘Attractions across The Bahamas are provoking concerns about mistreatment from animal rights advocates who are calling for regulation, inspection and limits on the number of swimming swine attractions. If Kim Aranha, president of The Bahamas Humane Society, had her way, the government would outlaw the strange endeavor altogether. \u201cIt\u2019s completely out of control,\u201d Aranha said in a telephone interview. \u201cAs an animal advocate, I hate it”… \u201cPigs will do anything for food,\u201d Aranha said. She estimated that more than 20 attractions have sprung up in recent years across the island chain \u2014 each offering tourists the opportunity to wade or boat in shallow waters as pigs beg them for scraps of food. \u201cPeople are traveling from Finland and Japan to see swimming pigs,\u201d she said. \u201cGuys who operate boats on New Providence charge $300 to $400 to see swimming pigs and people will actually pay it so they can take pictures next to swimming pigs”…<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Bahamas Tribune published portions of a social media post and photos from a Canadian travel blogger criticizing treatment of pigs at a Freeport attraction called Celebrity Eco Adventures. Writing on her Facebook page under the handle Kennidy From Canada, blogger Kennidy Fisher said she signed up for the excursion expecting the \u201cbeautiful and wonderful\u201d Exuma experience she had heard about. But at the Freeport attraction, she saw pigs corralled in a pen, exposed to wind and high seas on a narrow, unshaded cay, then tossed by employees into rough waves as the excursion boat she was in approached the shore.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe men then went on a kayak across the water which they themselves could barely swim in, they let all the piggies out of the crate and THEN threw them in the water, IN HUGE WAVES, with current, they made these pigs swim in water and they were not allowed back on the beach every time they tried to get back onto shore, and they are fighting for their lives, and people are just trying to take photos with them, it was horrible.\u201d Fisher said she chose not to participate further in the excursion, which cost $30 per person. In an interview via Messenger, she said she was surprised at \u201chow everyone there could see how unusual it was and still chose to participate”.’<\/em> SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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