The Pig Idea in London

The Pig Idea in London

There is free food on a bitingly cold and pearly bright afternoon in London’s Trafalgar Square, and all around me people are pigging out. There is a man dressed as a pig, shaking a pink bucket for donations. “The Pig Idea” is a novel piece of food activism. These protesters are feeding hundreds of people with pork products that came from pigs raised on food discarded by stores and restaurants. “Why not let restaurants and supermarkets sell their food waste to processing plants, then fed safely, cheaply and sustainably to pigs?” As more small pig farmers fail, or diversify into other types of agriculture, more pork has to be imported: a double whammy against sustainability, and a blow to the British farmers still in business as they struggle to compete.

Last week I was telling my husband about how some religions believe that when you die you get reborn, but as a totally different animal. He said he thought he’d like to be reincarnated as a pig. I said, “You evidently weren’t listening.”

Why isn’t there a Superpig?
It’s too hard for a pig to change clothes in a telephone booth.

What is the difference between flying pigs and politicians?
The letter “f”

Why do pigs have a ring through their nose?
To make pulled pork.

I saw a pig with laryngitis. He was disgruntled.