220 Quotes About Pigs
- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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For most women (as for most men) links between sexism and speciesism are not readily apparent. We have been conditioned not to see exploitation. For example, men generally have no idea how patriarchy affects women—unless they go out of their way to learn. The same is true for women with regard to cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys.
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- Author David Quammen
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Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an “extra” hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you’d remember the difference as significant.
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- Author Kelly J. Cogswell
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Hell, a pig had most humans beat, smarter than small children, and we didn't eat those but maybe we should.
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- Author Andrew Symonds
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It's a pretty blokey magazine [Bacon Busters, 'Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig hunting'], but they have women in it too. There's a 'Boars and Babes' section: women in bikinis sitting on big old pigs.
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- Author Susan Rebecca White
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While Alice craved sweets, her brother loved meat. Chops and ribs and butt and bacon. Sausage sizzling in its own fat, the key ingredient in the white gravy Mother fixed, which she poured over biscuits, made tender and flaky by a lacing of lard through the flour.
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- Author George Orwell
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Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?
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- Author Gregory Bateson
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When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.
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- Author Vivian Vande Velde
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The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.
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- Author Diana Wynne Jones
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Really, Wizard Derk, this place is like a pigsty!" she said.Derk settled more comfortably among the pigs. "It is a pigsty," he said.
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