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The Incredible Pig
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Pigs, buffaloes, oxen and dogs were among the animals I was terrified of in my childhood. I'm still scared of big animals now. But not pigs anymore. The childhood fright was mainly due to a distant relative's behind being bitten off by a hungy pig. There aren't any pigs left in bigger cities. One city close by even had a programme called 'shoot at sight' so that the city could be rid of 'ugly' creatures that 'mar' its landscape. But they're present everywhere in smaller towns and villages and the more I observe the more I am fascinated. You could call them waste guzzling super machines. They eat anything, well almost anything, and eat everything humans eat. Throw rotten fruit in their path and the next minute its missing. They are like a city's waste management porgramme. They scrounge and rummage through garbage on the roads, on empty sites, make their rounds several times a day and clean up quite a lot of mess. They also seem very human-like (well, maybe its just my imagination). Unfortunately, cultural construal denotes pigs as vile creatures that are unfit to exist on this earth. So many times, children and adults alike throw stones at them and this frightens and hurts them. Whenever these animals have to cross houses on their paths to foraging waste, they run rapidly until they're at a safe distance from humans and their dewllings. And contrary to common opinion, pigs are very clean animals. Maybe not clean to eat, because I'm a Muslim, but they love to clean themselves in clear water.
I feel each city should have an army or a contingent of pigs housed in a large beautiful park with lots of ponds full of clean water, and give them all the waste that they consume. The rest can be composted. That way we'll have cleaner towns. Well, maybe. But I'm a fan, and I thought "Babe" was the only pig who looked cute, but these dark grey Indian pigs are equally cute.

September 20, 2008 | 12:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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