LOWERING THE BAR?

What's the world coming to? "Hogs found wallowing in waste" yells the headline. Yeah, so what else is new? OK, I kid - the hogs were "in a putrid mix of urine, feces, and the decaying carcasses of about a dozen other hogs," but still - is our notion of animal cruelty changing? Perhaps so, since that's what the farmers involved have been charged with. On another animal farm, "filthy dogs, dying calves, starving pigs and sickly goats" have led to a similar charge. If this is the new world order, well, I'm all for it.