A quick look on the other lighter side of a pig's life. This joke sums it all: "Ham and Eggs - A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig."
Grimod de la Reynière (1758-1838), the first public critic of cooking, in the later eighteenth century said: Everything in a pig is good. What ingratitude has permitted his name to become a term of opprobrium? The pig is an encyclopedic animal, a meal on legs." Pigs are often used to comment on the human condition. Sir Winston Churchill said that "Dogs look up to man. Cats look down to man. Pigs look us straight in the eye and see an equal." And "As happy as a pig in mud" is used to signify someone is very happy.
