>> beheading her boyfriend’s piglet
Is that what they’re calling it now? “Piglet”?
What happened to “johnson”? Am I that old?
When the AAA got started in the New Deal, the idea was to raise the prices farmers received by reducing the supply--so farmers were paid to destroy crops already growing and to kill piglets. There was a huge outcry at the slaughter of the piglets. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace commented that from the outcry, you'd have thought the piglets were being raised as pets.