I don’t think people are mocking it, just having a little fun. I would gratefully take a pig part to save or improve my life and probably still be making bacon jokes about myself.
You're probably right.
I may be a little too sensitive from my years on dialysis. Not so much for myself but for the hundreds of other patients I crossed paths with and watching them die a slow death -- not all have a slow death, but many, many do.
I might do the same as you, but my family might have to chain me to keep me from rooting around the back yard :-).