June 13, 2004
The Joy of Pigs.
An old PBS Nature featured program.
Also, everything you need to know to raise pigs.
i am in favor of piggies! one of my college roommates grew up on a piggie farm, believe it or not. we'd drive down and visit and pet the piggies. at least us suburbanites would. and the farm folks would giggle at us. a good time had by all!
Thanks Zemat, this is really cool. Love them piggies. That Bornean bearded pig is especially grand.
In one of the local museums, there's an incredible photo of a man posing with a pig. The photo is art-directed so it looks like it's a magazine cover. It's eerie, because the pig's eyes look so human. The first time I saw it, I didn't want to eat pork for a long time afterwards.
The Life of Onni is a neat flash story about a pig. In lovely Finnish with English subtitles.
Pig bears brunt of lightning strike, apparently saving doctor
"If I did not have rubber boots on and I wasn't holding onto that pig, I wouldn't be standing here. I'd be dead," he added. "The pig is a lifesaver. I've got the best pig in the world, even though he's dead. He served more of a purpose than just a barbeque on Sunday, that's for sure."
I'm sure it made a fine barbecue anyway.
By the way. I was expecting the article to say the pig jump over his owner throwing him away from the lighting or something. Not being an accidental, and probably unwilling, savior.
Nononono!!!
What the --?!
The patents will never actually get awarded though, right?
Right?
Deleted! Matt must be one of those commie vegan terrorists. Here.
Ham in art!
Ham in politics!!
When will it ever end!!!
when widowed willy
did persist
how could
a bongo
long resist?
o ham I blue? ham I blue?
ain't these tears
in my eyes tellin' you?
♫ Home, home in LA
Where the hog and the bongolope play
Where seldom is heard an oink from a bird
And the cats walk with lobsters all day ♫
mmm...pigs. I went to Oliveto's The Whole Hog event last night. All the food is made with all the hog. Including...and I could not make this up.....BACON ICE CREAM!!!!! It was good :D
mmm, hogen-dazs.
I have a relative who farms pigs. He has unconventional ways.
oh roryk, thats good, hogen-dazs!!
pigs is pigs and pigs
is banks and pigs is
tails, but not D tails
only half of 'em boar
which is better than average
boars sow not, neither do
they spin, and they smell
like lilies of death valley
because most folk keeping pigs
are too cheap to provide them
with proper bathing facilities
the loofa, the scented soap, the
shampoo that is not sham -- so wot
are these mistreated swine s'posed to do?
nice one
bees
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/ 0..0 \
( (oo) )
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(/ / \ \)
00`----´00 _
It's rather a lie about pigs being filthy. They don't lie and root in shit; not if they have the choice. If they are provided with clean environment and plentiful food, they avoid shit. Jules was also wrong about pigs' personalities: they are at least as smart, if not smarter than, dogs, and certainly do have personalities. I had a friend in the UK had a huge pet pig called Stefford, whom he would take on walks to the pub. Stefford was unimaginable enormous, intelligent, and house-trained. Sadly he died of heart disease.
We have bred these species of animals to grow and put on weight so quickly that they cannot actually live very long in any kind of 'natural' way. So you're sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place if you are an animal welfare person; you can set the turkeys and pigs free but they'll all keel over in two or 3 years from fucking heart disease or organ failure anyway if you save 'em from the butchery, so you're ethically right up the fucking river.
Morally, how would you be, if you found yourself part of a civilization that had bred or genetically engineered another race to serve as a slave species, then after 20K years you have an enlightenment, you emancipate them, but they've been so changed from their original form that they can't exist any other way than as slaves?
Chyren: race, species, and breed are not interchangeable. You ask:
Morally, how would you be, if you found yourself part of a civilization that had bred or genetically engineered another race to serve as a slave species...?
How are you with that? Assuming you mean farm animals then it pisses me off that we can disregard their intrinsic value, avert our eyes, our conscious minds so easily. But again; how are you with that.
One reason I enjoy rereading Paul Lineberger/Cordwainer Smith's SF are the ways in which he considers possible future integration of humanity and animals.
He sets these tales far, far in the future.
But we seem to be right on the edge now, dipping our toes tentatively into the ocean of change, with gene-modified plants/animals intended to produce medically beneficial substances for human beings.
We do live in interesting times, eh?
Yes, we truly and roundly suffer the ancient Chinese curse.
Just don't let your pigs wander into the forrest.
wow, that mushroom omlette was a really bad breakfast decision.
"But again; how are you with that."
Is this a question? What do you mean? I don't understand.
Look! Up in the sky! There's a zombie pig!
(Regular viewers will know who drew that. I swear it wasn't me.)
I have an uncontrollable urge for undead pork.
*imagines how Night of the Living Bread could have been improved*
o flying pig
thy curly tail's
more twisted than
a jet's contrail
but whether kite
or simple pig
you must delight
with a grin that big
Dark side...white meat...HAH! I GET IT!
HAH! HAH! HAH!
MEE TOO.
*pokes Nunia with a spork
Ouch.
You wouldn't think those stubby little prongs on the spork would hurt, but they do.
Owie.
*pushes nunia and BH into lagoon*
2000 pigs sacrifice to the deity General Chao of Wudeh temple
Why do I even read this thread . . .
*goes to happy place*
I think it's time we linked to a happy pig place.
Here's a happy pig story
And let's all sing the happy pig song while we're at it.
Have a Happy National Pig Day!
There, there, Pete. It will be OK.
That happy pig song is catchy.
There's no such thing as excess poop, merely poop whose energy potential has not been properly utilized. When it's processed and/or dried it burns rather well, for one thing.
*flings*
Big Brother's Animal Farm; Gov't Program to Track Every Beast - Except Pigs
What's with the swatting each other with branches? Is it the Feast of Lupercal or something?
The joy of...
glow in the dark pigs!
Green ham and eggs.
I will not wear green pants, Madame;
I will not wear them, Pants-I-Am.
itty bitty piggies!!
squealin' squeeee on the hoof
Pigs. In. Strollers. And Shoes. And Teeny Lawn Chairs.
U.S. officials dither while antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains creep into our pork supply
Darn you hommy! I was going to FPP this. Will be interesting to watch this one and see how it shakes out. Could be pretty scary stuff. We could be ripe for another 1918-style pandemic...
oink.
I still love that photo, Queso. Someone printed it in the local paper with a "Caption this!" underneath. Slackers didn't know the perfect captions were already out there.
Also, the swine flu cases here in NZ are all gone, I think, and there have been no new cases. (This is good because a friend got back from Mexico on Tuesday.)
Grrrrr. Don't get me started on swine flu. Yup, it's been bad in third world countries, but the CDC's policy declaring a pandemic was not well thought out. Wait till the real one comes around. Everybody will be all lalalalala, just another 'pandemic'.
In this economy, I wish I could feel optimistic, too. Sure would be nice to be able to get a job (or a cozy pen in an experimental swine program.)
*sigh*
Who ever heard of a pig listening to glockenspiel music? Everybody knows they prefer polkas!
Disgusting!
Don't let the dog play with his food like that.
Well, the guy's no Miles Davis, but that'll do, pig, that'll do.
Chased a pig myself this morning, but used a different instrument--
mmmmmpigarse
...like they say, "Everything but the squeal"...
Sh*t happens: Mysterious ‘manure foam’ causes pig farms to explode
"Mysterious 'manure foam'"?? Must. Resist. Urge. to Reference. Santorum.
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