# Eating Animals That Were 'Saved'. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467 "2017-08-23T15:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/21 "2017-08-23T19:00:30Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There is something screwed up about firemen risking their lives to save food. They were trying to save barn and other property. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/22 "2017-08-23T19:05:47Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “After all the pig did for us, it didn’t seem right to eat him all at once.” I’ve heard it as “Mister, a pig that special, you don’t eat all at once.” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/23 "2017-08-23T19:06:21Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There is something screwed up about firemen risking their lives to save food. I can’t tell from the article how much life-risking occurred, but firemen are sent out to protect property and pigs are property. They’re worth about as much riskiness as the barn is and I’m going to assume that that’s about as much riskiness as they got. Too slow - waves at **Channing Idaho Banks** ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/24 "2017-08-23T19:42:02Z")
And really, being burned alive is a horrible way to go. Better to get them out, if you can without too much danger, than let them suffer. StG ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/25 "2017-08-23T19:58:06Z")
They made the pigs into sausages? That’s disgusting and wrong! Should’ve gotten some bacon out of the deal. > [@Yllaria](#): > > \*On-campus Animal Control at the time was one guy, with a truck big enough to handle good-sized dogs. At lunch, later, he said that he should use the uproar to justify ordering a dart gun with nicotine darts, cause that was the only thing besides bullets that could have taken something that big down fast. It would also have taken it down permanently, but passers-by would have seen it being darted instead of shot. > > I don’t think he ever actually tried to order a dart gun. He certainly didn’t get one. Nicotine…? Like a heart attack? Whenever an animal is shot, know-it-alls always say “couldn’t they have tranquilized it!?” That’s no easy task, and has big chances of either pissing off a large animal or killing it outright. There’s a reason that anesthesiologists get paid well. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/26 "2017-08-23T20:11:10Z")
I think the problem is the news report described the piglets as being rescued. That made them sound like pets. What the firemen did was save some property from being burned. When you think of it that way, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the farmer giving the firemen a share of what they saved from the fire. If the firemen had saved a corn field from being burnt down, would anyone think it was wrong for the farmer to give them a bushel of corn later on? Nobody would suggest that the corn had been rescued and therefore had some protected status. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/27 "2017-08-23T20:15:14Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I’ve heard it as “Mister, a pig that special, you don’t eat all at once.” That’s how I heard it, too, but I was afraid I’d mess up the punchline so I looked it up and that’s how it was in the first link, so I went with that random authority. Anyway, “Right, Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal.” ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/28 "2017-08-23T20:53:15Z")
The important this is that the pigs were ‘saved’ and are therefore in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/29 "2017-08-23T21:08:24Z")
But did they get their 42 virgins? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/30 "2017-08-23T21:11:15Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > “After all the pig did for us, it didn’t seem right to eat him all at once.” > > I think it’s fine to chow down. > [@Telemark](#): > > I’ve heard it as “Mister, a pig that special, you don’t eat all at once.” > [@RitterSport](#): > > That’s how I heard it, too, but I was afraid I’d mess up the punchline so I looked it up and that’s how it was in the first link, so I went with that random authority. > > Anyway, “Right, Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal.” I heard it Telemark’s way, but I like Rittersport’s way better, and that’s how I’ll tell it in the future. “After all it did for us…”- man, that hits home. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/31 "2017-08-23T21:30:58Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > A farm family raised a cow for meat. They named him Clyde. > > Eventually Clyde was big enough to be slaughtered. That evening, the wife was serving hamburgers for supper. One of the children had a friend over for dinner. > > One after another, the children asked if the meat was from Clyde, and hearing that it was, declined the hamburgers. Finally they got to the friend. She said > > “I’ll have a hamburger. I didn’t know him that well.” > > Regards, > Shodan I have to admit I’m a little disappointed there was no “Clyde” pun. I was looking forward to seeing how you’d make it work. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/32 "2017-08-23T22:05:34Z")
When my children were small, we made a conscious effort to make them understand where food came from. They would stand on a field gate and shout “Mint Sauce” at the spring lambs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/33 "2017-08-23T22:34:10Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > When my children were small, we made a conscious effort to make them understand where food came from. They would stand on a field gate and shout “Mint Sauce” at the spring lambs. 🙂 I’ve told this story before, but when my kids were old enough I brought them to a live poultry pace by us and let them pick out dinner, making sure they understood what was going to happen. I never forced them if they didn’t want to, and I never made them go back if they didn’t want to, but it started a long talk about respect for food and where it comes from. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/34 "2017-08-23T22:50:05Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Another vote for nonsense bullshit. I vote _delicious_ nonsense bullshit. > [@Projammer](#): > > But did they get their 42 virgins? Pigs? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/35 "2017-08-23T22:53:03Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > I’ve told this story before, but when my kids were old enough I brought them to a live poultry pace by us and let them pick out dinner, making sure they understood what was going to happen. I never forced them if they didn’t want to, and I never made them go back if they didn’t want to, but it started a long talk about respect for food and where it comes from. My brother had two pet chickens he named “Original Recipe” and “Extra Crispy.” But he never ate them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/36 "2017-08-24T05:06:54Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There is something screwed up about firemen risking their lives to save food. They weren’t “food” at that point – they were _living beings_ which would have suffered horribly if they burned to death, just as you would. Kudos to the courageous and compassionate firemen who realized that the hogs didn’t deserve to die in agony, and acted on that knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/37 "2017-08-24T05:38:01Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > They made the pigs into sausages? That’s disgusting and wrong! > > Should’ve gotten some bacon out of the deal. > > Nicotine…? Like a heart attack? > > Whenever an animal is shot, know-it-alls always say “couldn’t they have tranquilized it!?” That’s no easy task, and has big chances of either pissing off a large animal or killing it outright. There’s a reason that anesthesiologists get paid well. This is the same situation that happened in my [new] neighborhood before I moved here. Somehow, some way a cougar got into the north side of Chicago (google ‘Roscoe Village Cougar’) and the same people who called 911 were saying “couldn’t they have tranquilized it, they didn’t have to kill it” when the cops unloaded on it. Did they really want to wait for someone to attempt to tranquilize a huge predatory cat with a amazing ability to jump, run and attack? I asked someone around here about the details when it happened years ago and they said “we didn’t want our children to be hurt, but they didn’t have to kill it”. You can’t have both! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/38 "2017-08-24T05:40:12Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There is something screwed up about firemen risking their lives to save food. They were there to salvage property, and also to rescue any animals in the building. There’s a reason why fire crews have oxygen masks that fit cats and dogs. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/39 "2017-08-24T05:42:21Z")
> [@anomalous1](#): > > This is the same situation that happened in my [new] neighborhood before I moved here. Somehow, some way a cougar got into the north side of Chicago (google ‘Roscoe Village Cougar’) and the same people who called 911 were saying “couldn’t they have tranquilized it, they didn’t have to kill it” when the cops unloaded on it. Did they really want to wait for someone to attempt to tranquilize a huge predatory cat with a amazing ability to jump, run and attack? I asked someone around here about the details when it happened years ago and they said “we didn’t want our children to be hurt, but they didn’t have to kill it”. > > You can’t have both! I’m sure many of us remember this story from a few years ago. No police department has enough animal tranquilizer on hand to deal with something like this. > **[Owner kills self, sets wild animals free in Ohio](https://nypost.com/2011/10/19/owner-kills-self-sets-wild-animals-free-in-ohio/)** > > A dead lion lays by the fence on Terry Thompson’s farm near Zanesville, Ohio. (AP)ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals — including 18 rare Bengal tigers and… ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/40 "2017-08-24T08:41:30Z")
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