Hoarders and Zyklon B

I was watching Hoarders on NatGeo I believe and there was this lady who owned a pig farm. It didn't start out that way, but it grew. The lady ended up having some type of accident which left her in a wheelchair and for company, her sister got her a baby pig. I think it was a pot belly baby pig and from there her pig collection began. She ended up having like 700 pot belly pigs on her farm. She started out with a few and they began multiplying like rabbits so much so they began taking over her house. Literally. The house inside looked just like the outside did with mud and hay everywhere. You really couldn't tell the difference. When the county officials came out they found one that was malnourished and one dead. I'm sure they found more than that in those conditions, but that's what they showed on TV.

Anyhow. She had grown attached to the pigs - all of them and she didn't want to lose them. I do apologize for not remembering the entire story, but the main thing that happened was the county officials came and because the pigs had some type of incurable disease that threatened not only the animals but humanity they stated they had to euthanize them. This made the lady very sad and I don't blame her. She knew this was going to be the outcome, but still.

Now, here's where I had the problem. Yes, the hoarding of pigs didn't bother me as much as what took place next.

When they were talking about having to euthanize the pigs I thought they were going to take the pugs away and euthanize them at a vets office but that's not what happened. Then ended up gassing the pigs right there and then. Then they showed the dead pigs on a conveyor belt being put on a truck. This really disturbed me because it took me to a time of the Holocaust and the use of gas trucks to kill people faster aside from other methods. I am not sure if they used Zyklon B or not. When I think of mass gassings I automatically think of Zyklon B - which I have learned was the drug of choice for the US and the Nazi got the idea from the US. I will need to research this and find out if it's true or not. I was under the impression that the US got the idea of the gas chamber from the Nazis. Research will be conducted and I will report.

Yes, the Holocaust is that close to me that there's a lot of little things that other people may not pay attention to that take me back to that time and that is why I believe I was part of it and I did not survive - at least not physically. I believed I was carried over from that part in life and being used today to recapture that horrific time in our lives via my book. I don't know. But this leads me to the question of are we reincarnated from past lives? I really think we are and I will explain in my next post.

Until next time:

"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." Albert Schweitzer