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. 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 communitive. Unlike a cat, they will great 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. Most pigs highly dislike onions, cauliflower and cabbage. 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.
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.
Norcross, Alastair. “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases.” Philosophical Perspectives 18, (2004): 229-245.
Alastair Norcross in his article “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases “expresses the moral dilemma based on factory farming. Norcross gives an example of a man named Fred. Fred has to torture puppies in order to be able to enjoy chocolate. This is because when puppies are brutally tortured and then brutally killed they release a chemical called cocoamone. This chemical enhances the taste of chocolate, so Fred is killing puppies for gustatory pleasure. Any morally sound person would be appalled at what Frank is doing to these puppies and that is the basis of Norcross’s article. He is arguing that raising animals on factory farms and what Fred is doing are both morally wrong, because in both cases we are brutally killing the
In the book Of Mice and Men, the author,John Steinbeck, uses stereotype characters to convey his message. He wants to empathize with his characters as human beings. He uses stereotype characters such as Lennie, George, Curly, Slim, Candy, Crooks, and Curly's wife. Steinbeck's goal is to inform people how life was like for a migrant worker in the 1920's to 1930's.
Swine are omnivores that have a varied diet consisting of invertebrates, fungi, acorns, roots and bulbs found in the soil (Cushman, Tierney, & Hinds, 2004). The majority of the swine’s diet consists of plant forage, with native plants being preferred. They do eat other an...
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.
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
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 first way the pigs use language to abuse their power is by using extensive detail and by using terms and vocabulary foreign to most animals. An example of the pigs using unknown terms can be found when Squealer explains to the other animals about how hard the pigs need to work to keep the farm running. “There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organization of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. For example, Squealer told them that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day upon mysterious things called ‘files,’ ‘reports,’ ‘minutes,’ and ‘memoranda’…” (129). In this scene, the animals, exhausted, hungry, and overworked, are told about how the pigs work just as hard as they do. Although this is completely untrue, seeing that the pigs only occupy themselves in self-centered and self-beneficial engagements, the other animals believe it to be true because they do not know what files, reports, minutes, or memoranda are. Their ignorance leaves them unable to question Squealers story and they mistake the pigs’ true...
Example 1: The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.
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.
In Animal Farm, the pigs are first given the leadership position by the other animals, as shown here, "The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals." As shown by the text, the other animals must respect the pigs intelligence, and must value it over all other qualities, as the pigs were given the leadership position. If a different quality was more important, that quality would have been recognized and the animal with that quality would have been
Through use of language, the pigs appeal to the animals basic hopes and desires of a better life and a better future. They make others work extremely hard, while they themselves rest and unfairly reap most of the benefits of the work. For example, “Now comrades,... to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honor get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men do.” Later in chapter three, Squealer is sent to justify the pigs selfishness and to convince the animals that the pigs are working in their favor. He said, “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples...Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig...the whole management and organization of this farm depend on us.” This how the animals are persuaded to believe almost anything without question.