It's a well known fact that I have a rather unhealthy obsession with bacon or as I like to call it PIG CANDY. However, I also have an extreme fondness for pigs. I've never fully been able to reconcile these two opposing loves. So, when I saw a story about Iowa officials killing a group of pigs that managed to swim to the safety of a levy after being left behind in the floodwaters, I obviously had conflicted views. If the pigs were not also used to provide bacon for some homeless family in Iowa, then their deaths were indeed senseless. Ok, not senseless. The pigs were poking holes in sandbags with their hooves and rooting around, but you get the idea.
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People are wasting to much energy trying to stand up straight with their legs. Did they think about how much energy these pigs wasted trying to get to a save place. And here they are, stupid human people killing them to make sure the PIGS won't mess there work. God is sending us a mesaage and people are not getting it. God wanted rivers one way and people wants rivers another way. It is not working, you can built a levee and another levee and 1 million levees, it is not going to work.
Your comment makes me think of New Orleans and the Ani DiFranco lyric "the ice caps melt and New Orleans bides her time."
We are not living in sync with nature. We are asking it to bend to our will, cutting down forests because they're an inconvenience to our roads and in the process unleashing a pandora's box full of disease and death.
I feel bad for the pigs that struggled through the water in search of safety only to be greeted with guns.
I have the same predicament with pigs, Robert!!! When you come visit, we will have to buy turkey bacon and eat it together!!
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