Talk:Pigs

I was trying to verify the "I am fond of pigs... " quote featured in the sidebar on this page. It doesn't appear on the Winston Churchill page of WikiQuotes!Frappyjohn 17:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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• Never wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will like it.
  • Irish proverb (virtually attributed falsely to anyone in the US).

• The chicken is involved but the pig is committed.

• There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs. - Catherine Zeta-Jones

• Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. - James Dean

• Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
  • Irish Sayings.

• If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. - Orson Scott Card

• Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them. - Danish Proverb

• Never trust a pig selling pork sandwiches. - Tom Robbins-Another Roadside Attraction

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• I am vegetarian. ... I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.
  • Jeremy Corbyn, "A welcome in the hillside", interview with John Gulliver, in Camden New Journal (13 August 2015)

• [Describes visiting a factory-farm shed where she saw a large male boar,] his huge head hanging low towards the barren floor. As I came level with him he raised his head and dragged himself slowly towards me on lame legs. With deliberation he looked straight at me, staring directly into my eyes. It seemed to me that I saw in those sad, intelligent, penetrating eyes a plea, a question to which I had no answer: "Why are you doing this to me?"
  • Juliet Gellatley, The Silent Ark, cited in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004, ISBN 0-345-45282-8), ch. 1, p. 23.

• One of the odd aspects of animal mistreatment in the U.S. is that species regarded as more intelligent and emotionally complex — dogs, dolphins, cats, primates — generally receive more public concern and more legal protection. Yet pigs – among the planet’s most intelligent, social, and emotionally complicated species, capable of great joy, play, love, connection, suffering and pain, at least on a par with dogs — receive almost no protections, and are subject to savage systematic abuse by U.S. factory farms.
  • Glenn Greenwald, The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms (October 5, 2017), The Intercept.

• Animal behaviourists consider pigs to be highly intelligent, and people who’ve spent time with them have discovered that they enjoy listening to music, playing with footballs, and being massaged. (I can relate!) Yet, by the time you finish reading this article, thousands of these smart animals – who are every bit as sensitive as the dogs and cats we share our homes with – will have been killed just to be put in a sandwich. For many of them, the first time they feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air is when they’re loaded onto a lorry bound for slaughter. I’m not comfortable contributing to all that suffering – and I’m not the only one.
  • Sadie Frost, “Sadie Frost opens up about how vegetarianism changed her life”, in Marie Claire (19 May 2017)

• We can make an animal without a heart. We have engineered pigs that lack skeletal muscles and blood vessels.
  • Daniel Garry University of Minnesota MIT Technology Review