Posted on 05/29/2013 5:01:34 PM PDT by Starman417
Domesticated swine and Western Civilization go back a long way together. The domestic pig was being raised in Europe by about 1500 BC. Rome improved pig breeding and spread them throughout their empire. The early Christians increasingly abandoned the Jewish ban on the eating of pork by about 50 AD and its been the celebrated other white meat ever since.
Pigs and the discovery of the New World went hand in hand. Christopher Columbus took eight pigs on his voyage to Cuba in 1493 at Queen Isabellas insistence. Hernando de Soto brought Americas first thirteen pigs to Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1539. Cortés introduced hogs to New Mexico in 1600 while Sir Walter Raleigh brought sows to the Jamestown colony in 1607.
Frankly, the West and pigs go together like, well, bacon and eggs. Who hasnt enjoyed the cultural icons that are the three little pigs, delighted in playing this little piggie went to market with a toes of a small child, or stashed a few dollars away in their piggie bank? And who can forget such beloved childhood characters as Wilbur from Charlottes Web, Babe the movie star (thatll do pig), Miss Piggy, or Piglet from Winnie the Pooh?
Lets be honest, even the most finicky among us has to admit that a side order of bacon at IHOP isnt such a bad idea either.
But, alas, not all share our love for all things pork, bacon, and pig-related.
Piglets removed from agricultural exhibit because Muslim kids were stoning them to death
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A Sewer Rat may taste like a Pumpkin Pie, But I will never know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy Bastard!
A Sewer Rat may taste like a Pumpkin Pie, But I will never know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy Bastard!
You need to mind your own business.
Well the Chinese bought our biggest hog farms along with Springfield today.
They will control the prices and quantity we get to keep after they feed their people!
God bless America!
Home of the “hog trough” buffet.
I should have added that is 12 major brand names!
I don’t understand why Jews murder their alive unborn. But the two are not in the same ballpark because murdering your own posterity is alot worse than a BLT.
do you eat chicken? chickens are cannibals
OK try tomatoes
yay you. what is your bp, weight, and height? what meds are you on? and if you don’t like pork don’t eat it? i haven’t put you down or told you what you should or shouldn’t do. so lighten up.
More sewer rat for us. HEY! I see you eying my polecat drummies.
/johnny
KC Kitten seems a little judgemental
Can pigs be “bastards”? Either the Kitty is confused or guilty of anthropomorphism.
I remember the wild hogs coming into a campground in Hillsborough county many years ago. 1970’s?
I think they headed for the river late at night and were ferocious looking...
/johnny
Last I recall our Supposedly "Christian" Nation has 65+ Million Aborted Babies since the 70's
I don't understand what being Jewish has to do with anything, other than some unfortunate implications.
/johnny
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