Piggy banks made from real piglets spark outrage
What to get that person who has everything? Not this.
“While animals are routinely killed for their meat and hides, this is a particularly callous and demeaning exploitation of a baby animal's dead body. It trivializes the life (and death) of a sentient being,” said the Winnipeg Humane Society on its website. The group has organized a write-in campaign denouncing the product.
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People who for even a second think this is real should be taken from society, it's not good that a piglet has more brain activity then the so called "animal right" groups that try to save them.
I guess it is really sane to send death threats over a ham sandwich, "stop murdering pigs or i'll come and murder you", society is broken because of these weak links that take everything too seriously and feel the need to dictate other people's behaviour out of some misguided feeling of.... More
People are into shock therapy these days. This type of shock and awe imagery is the norm these days. How about a PC Piggy such as:
http://www.rumors.com/silver-piggy-bank.html
You just can't go wrong can you?
The ones who think this is funny or even an appropriate joke are deeply sickened individuals who have been so desensitized by our world today that you don't deserve to be alive. Pigs are smart creatures, and can even be affectionate. If you've never met one, I feel sorry for you and your boring life. Peta has nothing to do with this post, and even if they did, who cares. Though Peta definitely have their downfalls, they also do a lot of good for animals, even if its in a way that seems.... More
OMG I want one! I am going to start my Christmas list!
Does anyone know if they can do this with like real babies?
He's never sold one...and from the nice photoshop picture of a piglet...HE"S NEVER CREATED ONE EITHER! But...he did just piss a lot of people off and is laughing all the way to the...wait for it...piggy bank!
I am going to go to EVERY Peta site, wwf site etc to take this guy down! I do not know who is worse the guy making them or the people buying them! Its bad enough that these animals are highly intellegent and shouldn'nt even be used as food and NOW as a piggy bank. COME ON.......they sell those at walmart for 2 bucks for crying out loud! GO TO WALMART!
mmmmm....bacon....
Now I want a nice pork chop!
Save the vegetables! They scream when pulled from the earth!
Nobody is buying these. The article points out the fact that he has yet to sell one.
this is bull$H7!!!
He just claims he does not breed them for this(which of course he does, how many piglets can you get that die from natural causes).
The piggy banks are real. The "joke" is that people think he's killing pigs just for this. (this is his take on it)
Sick mind. What else to say.
NO! Absolutely not. Its a disgusting joke, if its a joke at all. I had my 6 month old sweet daughter die of natural causes, that does not mean its alright to turn her body into a doll to be used as a childs toy! This is deplorable! Come on people....give your head a shake.
Are you seriously saying you equate you daughter with a pig? A PIG!?! Seriously? See, this is what drives me nuts about PETA and their mindless drones. You can obnoxiously outraged about what is obviously a joke, and make outlandish comparisons and claims.
It's a pig... just... a... PIG!
I completely agree with you! I had the same idea to make dolls out of children! Now all I need to do is find some dead children or alive ones and kill em :)
Yea, so instead of talking about all the unrelated crap about EATING meat, let's move back to the topic.
It's very tasteless in some regards, I'll admit. However, considering "natural causes" cover everything from starvation, to being crushed to hypothermia and infections (all of which are things pigs should have adapted to by now, it's not OUR JOB to do this) I find absolutely no harm in using the remains instead of them rotting and possibly spreading disease to other healthy animals. If.... More
nuff said.
with all this eating meat vs. not eating meat bullsh*t. To each his own and you are not going to change each other's minds no matter what wikipidia facts you spew out.
Bottom line: This gift idea is in VERY bad taste. Case closed.
What a sad statement on (lack of) compassion and consideration of other life. Animals are not here for us, they are here for themselves. The people that get these will have the cats and dogs living in their home in a state of fear that they will be next (and not that it matters, but the pig outscores them on (albeit human-based) intelligence tests). And why not? Those same personalities that they love in their cat or dog were present in the pig they treat like this.
Whatever the pigs are not even being harmed. I want one! they are hilarious! perfect christmas present
You have to be sick to want one of these
No Seriously, pigs are sentient? Should I worry about an uprising?
ALL ANIMALS ARE SENTIENT. after a comment like this, some would question YOUR sentiency
Might as well make baby food out of babies. I'm amazed at:
A. The total absence of caring and;
B. The total lack of a better product idea.
Furthermore, some moron is going to see this, see the price tag, realize they CAN'T afford it - and figure out how to make one from scratch. 'bit of a joke'...riiiiight....
i hope bad karma gets you guys for this, how about making piggy banks our of your own children?
I would prefer mine to be in crisp, brand new condition. Natural causes implies some sort of wear and tear, like coyote attack. I don't want stitches or missing pieces on mine.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
Our teeth are like a horses, and our digestive tract is twice the length of a carnivores. We're not designed to eat meat doesn't matter how you look at it. And we humans have the ability to make moral and ethical decisions unlike animals that act out of instinct so you are comparing apples and oranges.
As for the assertion that the pigs "died of natural causes", that is such a load of BS along with the next statement, "we're not harming any animals". They're dead......seems pretty harmful to.... More
Our teeth are like a horses? Um...perhaps you should review your diagrams comparing horse jaws/teeth to human jaws/teeth. Humans jaws/teeth are much more in-line with that of a chimp (http://www.detectingdesign.com/images/EarlyMan/Chimp%20afarensis%20human...) and chimps are *not*.... More
does not mean that the lettuce is not screaming.
Every meatatarian I ever met uses that tired old line.
We are supposed to be the intelligent ones. We are capable of drawing a line somewhere between what is acceptable and what is not, without it being on an all-or-none basis.
I never knew they killed the baby sweetcorn during the processing, I always thought they were asleep.
I guess I never thought about it when I opened the cans.....all those horrible cans! Never again!
I hope no one who is outraged eats animal products, since enslaving and killing animals for eggs, dairy, and flesh are just as unnecessary as a piggy bank made from a dead piglet.
If you don't support violence and unnecessary suffering and death, please go vegan!
Yet you evil vegans are quite happy to kill cute baby sweetcorn in the pursuit of sustenance. As for those sweet peas, still in their pods... why that's gotta be murder...
Seriously get over your self, the human is an omnivore, that means our bodies have been engineered by nature over countless generations to eat what ever there is. We didn't end up at the top of the food chain by refusing to eat something because it was cute or might have feelings.
If man were truly intended.... More
plants dont have central nervous systems and therefore cannot feel. they dont have brains and therefor cant think.
animals have both. they think and feel.
humans are capable of eating both as a survival mechanism, not as a necessity. that does NOT make us omnivores. we don't NEED meat. and because we have brains is it our obligation to care for others.
"top of the food chain" is ********. if you didnt have weapons, you couldnt kill a lion. you could kill a bear. you.... More
