We have had a lot of practice!

It was great to be among so many people willing to do the next thing and the things after that to try to resist these right wing misogynistic terrorist thugs.

Her ignorance is not benign, nor was what she saw—the naturalizing and normalizing of female reproductive oppression." I know we are struggling with so much disinformation and manipulation of our viewpoints, but I expected more of @thenewyorker.bsky.social than such fawning over captive pregnancy.

and farrowing crates the majority of female pigs are confined in? (Minnesota, unlike a few other states, has banned neither.) It appears she can follow a chocolate chip cookie from inception to consumption, but cannot stop to ask, why was this moment of voyeurism staged? 5/

by artificial insemination to induced birth for entertainment. Does Goldfield know that many states had to amend their bestiality laws because farms practices including forced impregnation so closely resemble those outlawed acts? Did Goldfield wonder how it was that this sow escaped the gestation 4/

because 'the staff… just induced an enormous sow' at the Minnesota State Fair, but shouldn’t Hannah Goldfield register a slightly more educated insight into what she has just witnessed and why? That sow's pregnancy was manipulated from
beginning to end, from being forcibly impregnated 3/

The New Yorker chose not to print my letter in response, which asked: "What sort of naive food culture writer does the New
Yorker have on staff? Perhaps the average 'bacon,' 'ham,' or 'pork chop' consumer might assume a naïve 'oh gee' pose when they realize they are 'lucky' 2/