re: #17 William Lewis

I’m someone who eats meat. I grew up on a farm raising beef and poultry for eggs and eating. So I know where my food comes from.

These pigs were always going to be food for humans and , presumably, went to a less terrifying and painful death than being burned alive. So, I’m sorry, but as an omnivore, I see no problem with this story.

My only issue with it is that after the fire, the pigs had really turned their lives around. The one had gone to Oxford to study Francis Bacon. His tutors had taken a real pygmalion and turned him into a silk purse. It’s now on sale at Jesus College.