"What's going on?" Elle squealed, trying to get a peek through her cage.
"Hey! Hey, you can't do that! I bought those pigs fair and..." they can hear their owner protesting, loud and angry.
"They're not pigs, they're human beings!" another voice, shrill and feminine, shrieks out, just as loud, just as upset.
"Not anymore, they aint! I have a shotgun and I aint afraid to-" he is interrupted by a heavy clunk and then he goes silent.
"C'mon' we gotta get 'em outta there!" the female voice says, and the two pigs hear shuffling about before the hatch opens up and someone starts prying their crates open.
They are greeted by four older people, two women, two men, each dressed in brightly colored clothing from the 1960s. One of the men has a crowbar in his hands.
"Who... Who are you people?" Elle asks, frightened. Eric isn't nearly so frightened as he steps out of his cramped box and stands up straight.
"Oh, look at you two, what a shame," the woman who spoke before coos. "Isn't it bad enough they stole your lives away? They had to steal your dignity too?"
"I kinda envy them," the man with the crowbar says. "To be so in touch with mother nature..."
"They were going to be domesticated farm animals, Silas!" the woman snaps. "We're just some concerned citizens, is all. Hop into our van, we're going to get you two to the border so you can be free!"
"Free?" Eric asks, standing up on his hind legs. "Like liberated free or free of charge?"
"When livestsock died out, what was the government's first response? Was it to advocate meat-free living? No! They chose instead to enslave their own people, to rob them of their humanity, to force them to send their children to slaughter instead!" the woman seems oblivious of his question as she rants, gesticulating wildly. It's then that Elle cautiously creeps out of her crate and notices the farmer unconscious on the pavement. "We won't stand for that! So we decided we'd do something about it!"
"There are a few hundred of us who go around liberating you poor kids. All we want to do is to make sure you guys get to live free of the slavery and oppression that the government's forcing on you. It aint right, man!"
"So come on! Let's get you out of here before the fuzz shows up!" the woman reaches out with her hand.