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May 6, 2004
Pigs will eat people so we should eat them
I was ranting about this so much for awhile there I bored myself and I think forgot to blog about it -- but Melissa's comments on the food chain reminded me of one of my favorite food-based theories, which is that we should adopt a diet based on gallentry and we should eat *higher* rather than lower on the foodchain -- basically, we shouldn't eat anything that, given a chance, wouldn't try to eat us, first. This means, no more chickens and cows, let alone vegetables and grains -- and more polar bears, sharks and yes, pigs! Because pigs WILL eat people, if they are hungry enough and if you are drunk enough. Seriously, my grandfather was almost killed by a sow when he was a little kid, and then there's that scene in one of the "Silence of the Lambs" movies. Pig is the only readily available form fo meat that would eat us. In an fair world, we would only eat other predators, and we would have to hunt them down and kill them with our bare hands, drunk (to make up for our superior intelligence).
Anyway, if I had a little more time I'm sure I could find a lot of man eating pig stories that are not pure fantasy. Maybe this weekend.
Posted by mary at May 6, 2004 2:50 PM
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i love pork (unlike grubs), so any elaborate system of rationalization that allows me to eat more of it, i'm all for.
in fact i ate pork just last night, though i did not hunt it down & kill it with my bare hands.
we went to a whole-lamb-roasted-on-a-spit party last saturday. the lamb was delicious and startlingly animal-looking. it reminded me that not too long ago we visited the little farm (it's kind of a petting zoo), and they had lambs. i felt torn: so cute, yet so delicious. i feel that way about goats, too.
Posted by: melissa at May 6, 2004 5:11 PM
Goats are awesome! Especially ones that faint.
I had something to say about goats once. Jordan collected them and emailed them to me (my God -- 1997??!!):
Words of Wisdom from Mary W., collected in the field (Ghana), November , 19-23, 1997 by Jordan S.:
1."You might as well kiss 'em on the butt." (on kissing dogs' mouths)
2. "Goats are pretty cute except for their butts. Actually that's true of a lot of animals."
3. Jordan: "what are 'piles' exactly?
Mary: "I don’t know but I know it has something to do with your butt"
Posted by: Mary at May 7, 2004 1:38 PM
pigs are sweet az.
Infact, we have one.
He's a Wild Berkshire Boar. Apparently (so we're told) the meat on the ham from his loins will be succulent and lean...
People think our family is "out-of-it" - we live in a residential area.
3 adults, 2 children have raised this pig from 2wks of age.
The boar understands us...
it seems he never sleeps, but lies...listening, learning, napping, feeding;
he's ours.
And we respond to others by saying 'this moment is the only one we have, so we live it to the fullest...who knows what will happen tomorrow, the council might fuss, the neighbours will fuss, in time, but today, now is all we got.
Thats all we need.
We love him~
Posted by: el_naturale_gal at October 19, 2004 3:36 AM
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