Pigs smart as dogs?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Activists pose the question

NEW YORK (AP) — There's extensive evidence that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs. Yet one species is afforded affection and respect; the other faces mass slaughter en route to becoming bacon, ham and pork chops.

Seeking to capitalize on that discrepancy, animal-welfare advocates are launching a campaign called The Someone Project that aims to highlight research depicting pigs, chickens, cows and other farm animals as more intelligent and emotionally complex than commonly believed. The hope is that more people might view these animals with the same empathy that they view dogs, cats, elephants, great apes and dolphins.

"When you ask people why they eat chickens but not cats, the only thing they can come up with is that they sense cats and dogs are more cognitively sophisticated that then species we eat — and we know this isn't true," said Bruce Friedrich of Farm Sanctuary, the animal-protection and vegan-advocacy organization that is coordinating the new project.

"What it boils down to is people don't know farm animals the way they know dogs or cats," Friedrich said. "We're a nation of animal lovers, and yet the animals we encounter most frequently are the animals we pay people to kill so we can eat them."

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130729/US--Rethinking.Farm.Animals/

One word - Bacon!

[Jacque67 7,328]

It's a form of racism. Pigs make great pets as do lambs and calves. They are ostracized because of their size. To paraphrase a certain English politician "hug a pig"

[GandD 5,966]

This already got covered in pulp fiction

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

This already got covered in pulp fiction

Useless comment without a youtube.

[Darnell 8,479]

Regardless of what the 'groups' do, I'm still buying pork.

[X Factor 1,112]

This already got covered in pulp fiction

And Animal Farm

[Dan and Judy 614]

It's a form of racism. Pigs make great pets as do lambs and calves. They are ostracized because of their size. To paraphrase a certain English politician "hug a pig"

I don't know where you are getting your information but ostriches are like 8 ft tall and pigs maybe 3 ft.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Aint never heard a dog bark like this either.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Aint never heard a dog bark like this either.

See those hillbilly s are the equivalent of the KKK. The killing of farm animals such as pigs belies an inherent form of racism.

[GandD 5,966]

Useless comment without a youtube.

Someone's trying to see if I've learned anything.

[GandD 5,966]

Useless comment without a youtube.

FINALLY!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

One word - Bacon!

dogs have hair and can fetch

pigs smell and taste good when slow roasted