> wrote
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:48:44 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:

>>>>> Pig
>>>>is filthily
>>>>> housed and fed, and at the end barbarously butchered.""
>>>>
>>>>Well done! Thanks for posting that again, it does such a beautiful job
>>>>of
>>>>illustrating the sophistry of "The Logic of the Larder".
>>>
>>> Later on the pig sings "Swing Low", is thankful that it got to live,
>>> and hopes to have some life beyond this one.
>>
>>You just used the same literary device to express three ideas. That wasn't
>>so hard was it?
>
> Nope. And now we know pigs are thankful that humans raise
> them for food too. Well, I'm glad we got that straightened out.

Your sentence, in extending the literary device used by Salt, got across
your ideas that pigs enjoy and "benefit from" life, and that they may even
go to piggy heaven. You're a poet and don't even know it!