Sorry, but I just had to mention that the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title was that scene in Hannibal.
Er, I haven’t seen it. What scene?
I’d be more worried about owning cats.
<full body shiver> I had no idea. See, this is why I don’t have pets. There’s little chance of a philodendron devouring my corpse.
This little piggie went to the market, this little piggie ate the elderly farmer…
I’m a vegetarian. Appears that the pigs in question were somewhat hungry, wouldn’t you say?
Yeah, but once I’m dead, I don’t care. Actually, I think it would be cool for me to be fed to a Great White shark (Carcharodon carcharias) or something.
I see. Would you like to be served sliced, diced or julienned?
And what eulogy would be appropriate? “So long, old chum?”
Pigs are omnovores. So, if you die amongst them, they’ll eat you, too. They will, in fact, eat nearly anything. Not your average picky eaters.
Perfect. And a good joke as well, for those who get it. Heh.
Thanks. I thought it would be a tad distasteful, but I’ll let the sharks be the judge of taste.
And in the case of the pigs, now I don’t feel so bad about that ham sandwich I had for lunch. It’s clearly “eat or be eaten.”
You don’t eat a farmer like that all at once.
The fight for Animal Farm begins.
If a person ate meat from those pigs, would he be committing cannibalism in the second degree?
Last night’s Simpson’s episode on Fox 45 here in Baltimore was about vegetarianism. I thought i should include a quote:
I love the Simpson’s 
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I first thought of Brick Top’s favorite method of disposing of evidence in the movie Snatch.
“…so be wary of the man who owns a pig farm.” Oops.
“…and the pigs get what the dogs don’t finish.”
“…hence the term ‘as greedy as a pig’.”
Pa fell asleep and the hogs ate him,
The hogs ate him,
The hogs ate him.
Pa fell asleep and the hogs ate him,
Now Pa’s gone forever.
–Folk song
I know this is all supposed to be humorous and all, but…
Pigs are dangerous animals. An adult hog will run 500 lbs and they are quicker than you can imagine. They also can have a very bad disposition. In the old days when hogs were allowed to run free in the woods one of the last things you wanted to do, and maybe the last thing you would do, was run into an old sow with her brood. Fortunately pigs are not good tree climbers. Unfortunately they are very patient.
One of the serious risks before hog confinement facilities was that a hog would get you down and maul you. In the late 50s a friend of mine’s father had a heart attack and was seriously chewed on by the pigs before his dog distracted them and he was able to crawl out of the pen. There are all sort of stories about little kids being killed by pigs. In their own way pigs are as dangerous, maybe more dangerous, that dairy bulls.
There are photos of the dead at Gettysburg that have been represented as showing injuries caused by artillery fire. Recent studies, however, suggest that the gaping wounds are the work of pigs that had been rooting on the battlefield.
Pigs will eat nearly anything, including poisonous snakes. In one small town in Ohio pigs were turned lose along the river bank every spring to clean out the rattle snakes.
"Little pig little pig let me in or I’ll huff and I’ll puff and, hey that’s my foot cut it out! OW OW OW! HELP HEL…(crunch)
In the desert southwest, we have the javelina. They are mean, nasty, spiteful sumsbitches and when you run accross them in the wild you do not mess with them. They must taste good though, because I know several people that hunt them.
And before anybody states it, yes I know that javelina are rodents, but they closely resemble piggies.