{"id":542,"date":"2009-06-11T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:51","slug":"542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/542\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig vs Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDear Poor Lucky Me, <\/p>\n

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\nI love ham.\u00a0 Really, I love all pork products- including rinds and head cheese. Then I was at a friend’s hobby farm and met her pigs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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\nThe bad news is they are so sweet and smart.\u00a0 I mean they are as fun to hang around with as my dog! <\/p>\n

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\nWhat do I do now? <\/p>\n

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\nSigned,
\nPlease Don’t Call Me A Hippie<\/p>\n

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\n Dear Hippie,<\/strong>
\n<\/strong> I completely understand your internal swine strife.\u00a0 Pigs are one of the earliest animals domesticated by man, yet are known for their intelligence.\u00a0 Their meat is delicious, yet they can learn their name and come when called.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n <\/strong> Most vegetarians object to people abstaining from meat eating based on how cute they think animals are.\u00a0 One may not want to eat cows but have no problem eating scary smelly gross chickens.\u00a0 It’s ok to eat tuna but not the dolphins that are caught alongside them.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong> I think that it’s acceptable to not eat something based on any reason you want.\u00a0 I don’t eat bananas because they smell bad and taste nasty, I don’t eat lobster because they look like crayfish which are in my opinion a little too close to bugs for comfort.\u00a0 Not eating pigs because they remind you of dogs is as good a reason as any.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong> I don’t want to bum you out further, but if you really want a reason not to eat meat, do some research on industrial farming.\u00a0 Take a look at what the pigs you eat look like and live like before they get to your plate.\u00a0 Also check out what impact pig poo has on the environment.\u00a0 Spoiler alert: it’s some seriously disturbing shit.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n <\/strong> My editor is begging me to remove that last paragraph.\u00a0 He thinks it’s “not funny” and makes me sound like “a vegan douchebag” so out of spite I’m leaving it in.\u00a0 I’m not a vegan or even a vegetarian, I’m just telling it like it is.\u00a0 So suck on that editor!<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n <\/strong> Sincerely,
\nPoor Lucky Me <\/strong> <\/p>\n

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\n <\/strong> P.S. Trader Joe’s makes a tofu chorizo that is out of this world.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Poor Lucky Me,   I love ham.\u00a0 Really, I love all pork products- including rinds and head cheese. Then I was at a friend’s hobby farm and met her pigs.\u00a0   The bad news is they are so sweet and smart.\u00a0 I mean they are as fun to hang around with as my dog! … Continue reading “Pig vs Pork”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}