Pigs are popular. I like pigs. After Eeyore, Piglet was my favourite character in Winnie the Pooh. I was always fond of piglets, with their big floppy ears too big for their bodies.
When I was at primary school I used to take buckets of left-overs from school dinners to the house next door, where a man kept a couple of pigs. It wouldn't be allowed today, of course. My father had a couple once.
Some pigs are not lovable. Those creatures in Hannibal, for example. And Richard III made a propaganda mistake in choosing the wild boar as his emblem.
Winston Churchill liked pigs. What was it he said? 'A dog looks up to you. A cat looks down on you. But a pig looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal'.
And they don't half taste nice.
Here are a few links:
http://pigofknowledge.blogspot.com/
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPIGINEB4.html
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