A 70-year-old Coos County, OR, farmer has been eaten by his hogs.
Fair enough, I reckon. We eat enough of them.
We’re still winning.
What happens to hogs who eat people? Are they still considered fit for human consumption?
Is eating the pork, ham and bacon from those pigs upon slaughter now a form of human cannibalism?
Would the hogs have eaten him if he was either Jewish or Muslim?
Happened to one of my Dad’s cousins also. Many years ago, but the story still gets occasional mention at family gatherings. Dad, a lifelong farmer swore a solemn oath that he’d never raise another pig, and he never did. He stuck to dairy cows which will knock you down, trample you, roll you in filth and kick like a pile driver, but have never been known to actually eat anyone.
So the plot point in Deadwood involving Mr Wu’s pigs wasn’t fanciful. Good to know.
With the upcoming bacon shortage, I’m glad that someone stepped up to put their mind into the solution.
I know better than that! I’ve read The Far Side.
There’s something about that story that’s not kosher.
We’ve been over this before but it’s been a while. There was no conclusive answer. I guess you leave it up rules set down by your deity of choice or whatever.
My grandma told me about a similar story to an old family friend of ours. Guy got eaten by his pigs.
Happened in Oregon too! Maybe something about the pigs in Oregon having a hunger for human flesh?
I recall a saying from somewhere: ‘Never fall asleep in a hog pen.’
This is why.
Pigs will eat just about anything, including what doesn’t run away fast enough.
One of the stories in my family is about my grandfather and great-uncle getting in a fist fight near the pig pen. Great-uncle got knocked down, and his wallet fell out close enough to the fence that one of the pigs gobbled it up.
Unfortunately, the wallet contained the money he’d been saving all year to go on a trip, and there wasn’t anyway it would make it through the pig’s digestive tract intact.
Grandpa felt so bad, he put in all his savings to make up for it.
This just happened in the latest episode of Copper on BBC America (thought the guy was dead already and his body was being disposed of). It would be creepy and ironic if the farmer had watched the episode Sunday night.
I can’t read this thread without hearing Eric Idle saying, “Chapter 17: I am Eaten by Hogs.”
They are usually fed to grizzly bears, which are then killed for second-degree maneating.
Perhaps we’ll start seeing the faces of missing persons on packages of bacon.