Spareribs or spared pig: Will she be bacon?
Pig activists say a thousand swines no!
By Sara Gregory
LITTLE ROCK — The great pig escape is now the great pig debate.
Two weeks after walking away from her overturned ride to the meat packer and just over a week after wandering into a Pulaski County swimming pool and a shot at freedom, an 800-pound sow is now at the hub of a life-and death dispute: Though bred for the breakfast table (or the grill), should she, instead, have a home - somewhere other than the freezer?
The sow was part of a load of hogs traveling from Nebraska to a Little Rock processing plant that spilled onto Interstate 430 on June 22 when the truck overturned.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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