• AmyAye@nord.pub
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    8 days ago

    Because they live in filth, and they are the symbol for gluttony. Also hard working? Do pigs work? So they do anything except eat and be eaten?

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      7 days ago

      Have you seen what pigs that aren’t kept in prisons are like?

      They range extensively, they don’t wallow in filth and shit.

      How would you bshave in a cell without plumbing?

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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      8 days ago

      They live in filth only if we force them to. I mean yeah, pigs are nature’s garbage disposal, people used to keep a pig, feed it table scraps, and they turn said scraps into bacon…

      They also fertilize land and turn over poor soils turning substandard land into productive arable land in a hurry.

      Pigs are hugely utilitarian animals for a human population and have been thought history