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Chapter 13 concludes today:
Kay leaned against her car, took a vanilla vape from her bag and inhaled deeply. She closed her eyes. It had been a long day. She’d arrived at her office at 8.30 am, hadn’t left until gone half seven, and then she’d had to drive more than thirty miles to this event which, unknown to her, had been put on her calendar three months earlier. After a couple more puffs she put the vape back in her bag and unlocked the car with a single push of the button on her key fob. She sat down in the driver’s seat at the exact same time as a strange woman in a red checked blouse and denim skirt sat in the passenger seat.
“Hello,” said Velma.
“Hello,” Kay replied, “what are you doing here?”
“That’s funny, I was going to ask you the same question.”
“What do you mean? This is my car.”
“No, I mean here, at this event. Why are you here?”
Kay sighed. “I’m sorry but I’m really tired and I’ve got a long drive. Could you email me with any questions you’ve got? You can reach me through the Blue Tractor website.”
“No, sorry, I need to talk to you now. It won’t take long.”
Kay sighed again. “Okay,” she said reluctantly, “what do you want to know?”
“I want to know why you’re here,” Velma repeated.
Kay thought it should have been obvious. “This is a Blue Tractor fundraiser. I am the CEO of Blue Tractor.”
“So why is it being held here?”
“This is a Blue Tractor Assured pig farm.”
“It is? I haven’t seen any pigs.”
“It’s an indoor producer. The pigs are housed indoors.”
“They can’t go outside?”
“Not here, no.”
“Never?”
“No.”
“But Blue Tractor approves them?” Velma asked another question she already knew the answer to. “They carry your logo?”
“There are three tiers to our approval system. One for Free Range farms, one for pigs who start their lives outdoors but are finished indoors, and one called Certified Standards Plus for farms that rear their pigs indoors. That’s what this farm is.”
“Standards Plus?”
“Yes.”
“And they don’t have to ever let the pigs outside to get that?”
“That’s right.”
“And your logo is used to tell people the meat is ‘high welfare’?”
Kay nodded.
“To get people to buy it?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t think that’s right,” Velma told her.
“Yes, it is.”
“I mean it’s not right to trick people who don’t want animals to suffer into thinking they don’t suffer, when you know they’re forcibly bred, forcibly separated from their mums, and forcibly slaughtered by machine! You trick people into thinking it’s okay to buy anything with your logo on it when you know there is NO SUCH THING as humane meat.”
Kay exhaled and looked at the ceiling. “Could you just-“
“No. Such. Thing,” Velma repeated softly.
Kay reached for her phone. “Get out of my car or I’m calling the police.”
Velma looked deeply into Kay’s eyes. “No you’re not,” she said calmly, “you’re going to send a text.”
Even in the dark Kay could see the whites of Velma’s eyes fill with black. She gasped. “Who?” she asked fearfully, “who should I text?”
“Anyone you like,” Velma suggested with a smile, “your best friend, your partner, your colleague. Whoever you text most.”
Kay’s hand shook as she scrolled through her contacts. “What shall I write?” she asked.
“Go vegan.” Velma told her, then her stomach rumbled. “Oh, excuse me.” She watched Kay do as she was told and press send. “You see most people care about animals,” she explained as she took Kay’s phone out of her hand. “So if they knew the truth about the horrors animals are subjected to in all farming systems, they would likely want to prevent that suffering by refusing to buy any animal products. But because people like you keep deceiving them, the horror continues. And it will never stop Kay, it will never stop,” she showed her teeth, “unless I kill every single person who thinks like you.”
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