What do you see when you look at a pig? A kindred spirit, a creature much like you? Yes?… But possibly, the very next moment, you see a beast, a stranger, just an animal. One moment the pig is a fellow creature, like Freddy, Wilbur, Porky or Piglet; and the next, the same pig is just a mouthful of ham.
The delicious taste of ham, the perturbing provenance of ham. Do you ever think about it? An animal that eats and thinks has to think about what it eats, otherwise it is just an animal…
the Porcine Oracle
Additional information:
- Sugar Mountain Farm – What Good is a Pig
- Romanced by a Canadian Pork Chop
- The Nasty Bits: How to Break Down a Pig