There is no finer group of folks in this world than that of a hog farmer. They don’t sing songs about hog farmers like they do cowboys, but in this protein deprived world livestock farmers know that they’re keeping this world spinning. With mud on their boots and dings on their pickup, hog farmers really know how to live high on the hog and low on her hocks. A pig to many people is a pink mud covered creature with a swirly tail and cute oink. Well, although this is partially true there is a lot more to raising swine than meets the eye. Out of all major livestock, none is more misunderstood than the hog because of past myths and unlawful owners, but things could be different in the future once people realize why we raised them in the first place. Feeder pig production is the best way to get into farming. Columbus brought pigs and sheep over for the simple reason of them being so small. A pig has small eyes, curly tail, and a snout for a nose. It has short legs with a thick body and four toes on each foot in a hoof type fashion used for walking. Pigs are omnivores and scavenge for any kind of food including worms, garbage, bark off a tree, and even rotting carcasses. They are foraging animals in the wild eating mostly leaves and roots, but everything else above can be included. Pigs have a long special bone that almost no other animal has running down their snout called the prenasal bone. This sense organ is very sensitive and allows them to dig deep into soil and find things that not even your average dog or wild coyote could find. When you forget to feed your hogs imagine how beneficial it is for them being able to find their own food anytime they wish. Many livestock owners have cattle that they raise instead of pigs, but they ... ... middle of paper ... ... Breeding & Genetics 128.1 (2011): 15-27. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. "Duroc Swine." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2013): 1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. "Hampshire Swine." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2013): 1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. Juška, Remigijus, et al. "The Growth Performance and Behaviour of Pigs Raised in Conventional and Alternative Systems." Veterinarija Ir Zootechnika 57.79 (2012): 22-30. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. Klober, Kelly. A Guide to Raising Pigs. Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications, Inc., 1949. Print. Loon, Dirk. Small-Scale Pig Raising. Charlotte, Vermont: Garden Way Publishing, 1978. Print. Odegard, Heather. Personal interview. 18 Jan. 2014. Thu, Kendall. Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communitites. Albany, New York: U of NY press, 1998. Print.
What’s that Pig Outdoors? is a memoir whose name easily captures the attention of the potential reader. Moreover, the story of the title captures an important theme in the narrative, which is that being deaf can sometimes lead to humorous (and sometimes not so humorous) misunderstandings. Henry Kisor, the author of the memoir has been deaf since age three. Still, he grew up in the hearing world as a lip-reader, and does not separate himself from the hearing culture in the slightest. While his disability can lead to said misunderstandings, it hasn’t stopped Kisor from living his life the way he wants and feels is best for him.
History tells about how a neighbor’s pig fell astray into the Nurse family’s yard and Rebecca Nurse yelled at her neighbor. Soon after the neighbor feel ill and died of a
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...ed access to federal subsidies that were given to all farmers. These federal programs were administered locally by a small class that controlled the counties. If they said that their county didn’t have the need for these checks they were returned, or in some cases pocketed by the landowners themselves instead of giving them to the sharecroppers. (Kreisler internet)
“We take care of animals, and the animals take care of us.” (Rollin 212). The preceding phrase is a policy that American farmers in the old west lived their lives by. Modern farmers live do not live their lives anywhere near to this phrase because they own factory farms, and the whole reason for having a factory farm is to fit as many animals in a small space as possible in order to maximize profit. Factory Farms, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) first appeared in the 1920s, right after Vitamins A and D, because if animals are given these vitamins in their diets, exercise and sunlight are not necessities for the animals to grow anymore (In Defense of Animals 1). The growing number of factory farms is coupled with the decreasing population of rural areas, which means that many people are beginning to factory farm because it yields a higher profit (“Agricultural Sciences” 170). In the 1950s, the average number of chickens on a given egg farm in the United States was 100, but now the average number is a shocking 10,000 chickens (“Factory Farms” 4). The reason for the increase of chickens has to do with new and cheaper technology developed just after World War II. The new technology increased the number of chickens, while it had the opposite effect on dairy and meat cows, their numbers went in the other direction. The number of cows used for milk was cut by more than half between 1950 and 2000, because farmers discovered new and more efficient methods for milking cows (Weeks 4). Many activists for animals’ rights are concerned about the methods used by factory farmers because they confine their animals into tight spaces and since there are so many of them in a small ...
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Throughout the story, the animals begin the trust the pigs more and more, allowing themselves to be told what to do and be taken in with blind devotion. The pigs act on their newly gained trust and by the end of the story are able to lie back on their laurels and run the farm from the comfort of Mr. Jones’ armchair.
Barney, the main character in the story, is a teenage boy who has to stay another boring summer at his parents vacation rental. Barney knows that the man who stayed there previously, is a Captain that had a insane brother, that just so happened to stay in Barney’s room, locked up, for 20 years in that room for being insane. He finds out that their is a group of teenagers his age, named, Zana, Manny, and Joe, that live at the cottage next door. When Barney meets them, he learns that their favorite activity is to play a board game called Interstellar Pig, weird right? Same name as the title of the book. Zena, gives him a brief description on the rules. Rules: Each player picks their character from a stack of cards. The characters are aliens with different
2) Literature Overview: The resources use to complete the assign were Kevin Reilly, Women and the Origins of Patriarchy: Gathering, Agricultural, and Urban Societies; Elise Boulding, Women and the Agricultural Revolution, Gilbert C. Fite, American Farmers, The New Minority, John T Schelbecker, Whereby We Thrive: A History Of American Farming, Sandra Johnson, and a unknown web source. They describe in their own way how the American agriculture was established.
Because the animals are uneducated and do not think for themselves, they allow the pigs to manipulate them through propaganda, which eventually leads to the downfall of the farm. Had the animals not been so ignorant and more aware of what was taking place, they could have stopped the pigs from having paramount power. The animals could have used their own judgement to not trust the pigs and not be tricked into believing certain facts. Instead, though, the foolish animals did not recognize what was going on, nor did they think independently. In conclusion, one can see that not thinking for oneself can be an invitation for manipulation and a hinderance to the amount of power one has available.
Farming is an excellent way for one to learn responsibilities and develop a superior work ethic. For a person to become a farmer he or she would have to either own a plot of land or have access to land. For one to be a successful farmer he or she must be able to withstand what the farming life has to offer. If one were to become a dairy and beef cattle farmer he or she would be able to support his or her families with the products that are obtained from these creatures.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm, is a satirical novel that follows the causes, effects, and outcomes of a revolution. The Manor Farm is overtaken by the fatigued and dissatisfied animals that work tirelessly for Mr. Jones, the owner of the farm. The revolution is inspired by Major, the prize boar on the farm, but is attained by Snoball and Napoleon, two other boars. Squealer, a younger pig, acts as a persuasive communicator between the pigs and the other animals. The revolution is sparked by the desire to live on equal and just terms. The animals on the farm receive little to no education which affects their position in the revolution. The animals’ ignorance plays a major role in both political and social oppression because of their inability to
Language plays a very important role in the pig’s power. Due to the pigs being the smartest, language can be used to keep their power over the other animals. The pigs use their intelligence and language to manipulate the other animals on the farm. They would say “All animals are equal.”(11) but they know that they are superior due to their ability to manipulate the others through language. Squealer for example would use words that many animals would not understand to make the animals think being ruled by the pigs is a good thing. Through language the pigs are able to secure their position as leaders on the farm as well as get the animals working for less.