Pigs are fascinating creatures, but many people only think of them as food. In reality pigs are so much more than ‘just food’ although the average American eats consumes 51 pounds of pork each year, and 116,558,900 pigs are killed for food. In the average American lifetime, humans eat 33 pigs. The usual age they kill pigs are five to six months old. This means most pigs don’t experience 95% of their lives. Pigs are highly intelligent, they are great household pets, and contrary to a popular belief pigs are very clean. Pigs are very social and love being around other creatures. Pigs are extraordinarily intelligent. They are curious and are accepted as being smarter than children up to three years old, dogs, and some primates. They use instinct, intuition, and memory in everything they do. Even though they have no natural sense of right and wrong, they learn very quickly and they don’t forget what they are taught. Humans rate the pig fifth on the intelligence scale only after man ranked first and monkeys, dolphins, and whales in front of the pig. There are numerous stories of pigs saving people’s lives. They know how to swim, a pig called Priscilla saved a young boy from drowning. Pigs remember locations well. They remember positive and negative experiences, they learn from fellow pigs, and can also …show more content…
recognize themselves in a mirror. Pigs like to play and mess around, they have good long-term memory and can be socially manipulative with fellow pigs. They are able to tell if a pig is a stranger or a friend and if they have met a certain pig before. Pigs can scream at 115 decibels to warn other pigs of danger or if they are startled. Pigs are also very quick, faster than some humans; because the pig runs a seven minute mile. When you hear about pigs, usually people instinctively think ‘dirty’ when in fact pigs are cleaner than cats, dogs, chickens and more. People have a saying “I’m sweating like a pig” which in reality doesn’t make any sense because pigs cannot sweat. Lighter colored pigs risk sunburn and overheating because they do not sweat so they roll around in the mud to protect their skin or they bathe themselves in cold water, if available. Even when pigs are newly born, they leave the nest to use ‘a toilet’ within hours of birth. Along with pigs being smart, they make great household pets.
Pigs respond well to training and learn quickly. On top of that, they live from twelve to twenty years, clean and odor free, non-allergenic, no fleas, no shedding, no barking, and low maintenance. The best part is they are very affectionate and communicative. Unlike a cat, they will greet you, respond to their name and cuddle with you, and unlike a dog they are odor free and don’t bark. It’s the best of both worlds with an animal and they can be litter-box trained. Most pigs are big or grow to be very big. That is not a problem because pot-belly pigs are the size of a small dog and don’t grow any
bigger. These small creatures can drink up to fourteen gallons of water a day. It isn’t hard to feed a pig, they will eat practically any food given to them. Pigs are omnivores, but they prefer to eat fruits. Some of the fruits they enjoy eating are pears, apples, berries, grapefruit, and oranges. Pigs will eat meat, tree bark, grass, burritos, and slop (leftovers mixed together). Most pigs highly dislike onions, cauliflower and cabbage. But for the most part if it looks edible and smells good, they can and will eat it. Pigs have an amazing sense of smell and if allowed, spend hours rooting in the ground. Reports say that pot-belly pigs are able to smell up to twenty five feet under the ground. Some pigs have even been of service to police for sniffing out drugs. They root for so long because they are searching for food. They are highly motivated by getting/finding food and that is why they are so easy to train. The average pig eats a ton of food each year, equal to about five pounds of feed per day. These creatures are very interesting and can do a lot. Pigs have an extraordinary sense of smell and can root for hours at a time, they also make great household pets and hold no odor. Some pigs service the police and others save lives. Overall pigs are amazing creatures who never fail to impress. Pigs also have a lot in common with humans, they like to listen to music, play soccer, the love to snuggle, get massages, and they dream much like people do. Actually pigs are very social animals, forming tight bonds like humans do and always communicating. We have more in common than you think, and they should be considered more as friends than food.
In his article “Boss Hog: The Dark Side of America’s Top Pork Producer,” (Rolling Stone Magazine, December 14, 2006) Jeff Teitz reports that not only are millions upon millions of pigs being abused and slaughtered each year by America’s largest pork producer, but, in turn, the waste produced by those pigs is polluting, destroying, and even killing others. Teitz begins by revealing that Smithfield Foods, the world’s most profitable pork processor, killed 27 million hogs last year, which is roughly equivalent to the entire human populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities. As Teitz delves deeper into statistics, he explains that more fecal matter is produced from half a million pigs at one Smithfield subsidiary than the 1.5 million residents of Manhattan, and in just one year Smithfield’s total waste discharge is enough to fill four Yankee Stadiums.
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The pigs were given larger amounts of food, and even lived in better conditions than the
In Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy attempts to reconcile her personal views of feminism with its portrayal in popular culture. In order to challenge what she sees as a co-opted version of feminism, Levy raises the question of authenticity of “sex-positive feminism” (Levy, 63) on two levels: by “selling out” in terms of the body and in terms of our patriarchal culture. In order to restore a binary relationship between feminism and non-feminism, Levy recasts this sex positive feminism as a new form of (fe)male chauvinism.
Utilizing his wits to outmaneuver the wolf, then scaring the wolf and ultimately eating the wolf portrays the third pig using survival tactics. As Carrie Ryan says in her novel The Dark and Hollow Places, “Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.”
Society have a huge impact on people attitude and behavior. It’s a poisonous weapon that affect human moral and attitude among the others. In Jennifer Pozner article “Ghettos Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas,” she argues that the fashion industry affected Tyra Banks’s behavior. Similarly, “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” by Ariel Levy saying such society create and affect women behaviors. This is refers as women empowerment over not only women, but also men. The ideas or behavior inherited to a person depend on the background of the person’s family. Society serves as a reinforcement to a person behavior. I think society affected person behavior
First of all, the Third Little Pig is so admirable is because he is very hard working. As the text states, “Please, Man, give me those bricks to build a house with.” This quote proves that the little pig is hard working because building a house with bricks, from the ground up, requires a lot of manual labor. He could have just built his house out of materials that were easier to manipulate, but would create a weaker structure, like hay or straw, but he went the extra mile to create a sturdy house out of solid bricks. While the
Being uneducated affected all the animals in a very negative way by resulting in the animals getting looked down upon. The pigs were known to be superior and the uneducated animals were looked at as the “working class”. Being educated had plenty of benefits such as all of the pigs took their meals into the kitchen to eat, the pigs even used the drawing room as a recreation room and they even slept in the beds, which breaks one of the seven commandments. “Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing room as a recreation room, but they also slept in the beds.”(66). This quote specifically explained how the educated or the superior animals got more benefits over the non educated animals. The pigs got all of the power on the farm which left no power or rights to all of the other non educated animals on the farm.
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm farm animals drive their cruel owner out to have independence. After this rebellion, the pigs being naturally smart take the role as leaders. The pigs are able to keep their rule because they take advantage of the animals’ horrible memory and lie about the past in order to benefit themselves and sustain a better rule for the future.
The actions of the pigs express this theme by starting with good intentions, but slowly becoming more and more like what they were trying to avoid. In the beginning of the story Old Major gives a speech to the animals on the farm, and in this speech he mentions how cruel the humans are. During his speech Old Major uses Boxer the horse as an example when he says “You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.” (Orwell 11). He then proceeds to tell the animals that once they revolt the cruelty will end, and at first it does, but soon the pigs begin to act more like humans. The pi...
The pigs were kept outside the abattoir in a little pen area. The eldest butcher opened the door, and the first pig hobbled in on its arthritis-crippled legs to the first stage. The pig did not seem to have any idea what was going on as the butchers attached a chain to one of its hind legs. The pig was hoisted upside down, and the butcher punctured a gaping hole at the bottom of the pig’s throat. Blood immediately started gushing out. The pig barely struggled as its waning heart pumped out its blood onto the cement floor below.
After the Animal Revolution the pigs take the initiative and place themselves in charge because of their claim of having higher intelligence. Over time this power begins to distort the basis of their revolt by recreating the same social situation they were previously in. “When the pigs takeover they claim that their goal is to preside a farm of equal animals, all working together to support one another, yet power quickly proves too much for a pig.” Though the animals originally took over the farm to increase the animal’s independence as a whole, because of the pig’s superiority they soon take the place of the humans further limiting their independence.
The pigs developed Old Major’s teaching into a complete system of thought: Animalism. Rules of equality, formality, and hard work was proclaimed and encoded in The Seven Commandments - ';an unalterable law.'; The animals enthusiasm was expressed through a hymn, ';Beasts of England.';
pigs' license was in their own best interests. “It was always the pigs who put
...People respond to the three pigs because either they have been in the pigs’ position, or they are ready to learn from the pigs’ experience. Everyone faces his own personal “wolf” that bares its teeth and threatens to blow away his foundation, but “The Three Little Pigs” offers hard work and determination as a solution to any problem that seems insurmountable. Proper preparation prevents poor performance regardless of the situation, and the three pigs show that sometimes, a poor performance might be the last one.