From a June 18th article on CNN.com ... in the article reference was made to the public outcry at the shooting of some pigs - the pigs were trampling and weakening a levee: "It happens every day. My gosh, that's what slaughterhouses do - that's how we get bacon and pork chops," LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the Des Moines, IA county emergency management commission, said.
I think many Americans are too far removed from the origin of their food. We all ought to be realistic about where our food comes from - whether it be Wilbur's cousin or a dung-fertilized field of carrots.
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