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True story: I stopped eating pork after watching Okja and reading up on pig intelligence. That final scene... oof. (bawl)

• pnutjam 7y ago
  I heard this joke when I was young and never really got it until I was older. --------------- A TV reporter became lost on the back roads and stopped at a farm to get directions. As he was talking to the farmer he noticed a pig with a wooden leg. “This could be a great story for the Six O’Clock News. How did that pig lose his leg?” he asked the farmer. “Well”, said the farmer, “that’s a very special pig. One night not too long ago we had a fire start in the barn, and that pig squealed so loud and long that he woke everyone, and by the time we got there he had herded all the other animals out of the barn. Saved them all.” “And that was when he hurt his leg?” asked the journalist anxious for a story. “Nope, he pulled through that just fine.” said the farmer. “Though a while later, I was back in the woods when a bear attacked me. Well, sir, that pig was nearby and he came running and rammed that bear from behind and then chased him off. He saved me for sure.” “Wow! So the bear injured his leg then?” questioned the reporter. “No. He came away without a scratch. Though a few days later, my tractor turned over in a ditch and I was knocked unconscious. Well, that pig dove into the ditch and pulled me out before I got cut up in the machinery.” “Ahh! So his leg got caught under the tactor?” asked the journalist. “Noooo. We both walked away from that one.” says the farmer. “So how did he get the wooden leg?” asked the journalist. “Well”, the farmer replied, “A pig like that, you don't eat all at once”!
  • dunstad 7y ago
    How awful. Imagine if the subject of this was a dog instead, it would anger so many people.
    • tempestn 7y ago
      Indeed, that's kind of the point.
      • Judgmentality 7y ago
        Social mores are part of being human. We're full of all sorts of contradictory beliefs and principles. Trying to reconcile all of them will quickly make you a crazy hermit. On the topics of pigs, dogs, and pets; most people don't realize how intelligent and affectionate cows are. Dairy farmers often love their cows more than their dogs. And the farmers that have dairy cows and other cows have this mental barrier where one group is food and the other is family. I bet most people that have eaten a hamburger have never pet a cow. This is not some meat-is-murder tirade - I'm not even vegetarian. It's just neat to think about the assumptions that construct our worldview.
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        • rjf72 7y ago
          > I bet most people that have eaten a hamburger have never pet a cow. Given that most Americans have definitely never pet a cow, and I'd go as far as to propose most have probably never even seen a cow in person, that's probably a very safe wager. But what percent of people that have pet a cow, would you wager also do eat beef?
          • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
            Per your last sentence, I'd have thought vegetarianism would be much higher amongst city dwellers.
            • dpark 7y ago
              I’ve read that vegetarianism is far less common among people who grew up on/around farms. The claimed reason was that people who grew up away from farms are heavily influenced by movies and television that anthropomorphize animals. People who grew up near farms don’t equate animals with humans so much.
          • maxerickson 7y ago
            The animal barn is a pretty popular feature at state and county fairs.
  • charles_f 7y ago
    Oh wow you ought to watch this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZee0r_ICs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZee0r_ICs It is in French and subtitled, but so exactly relevant to your point!
  • ijidak 7y ago
    Hahaha. That's Terrible, but funny.
• UltimateFloofy 7y ago
  If you read Animal Farm, there's a reason why Orwell made the pigs the most clever leaders of the farm.
• spraak 7y ago
  And other animals?