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by Hardscrabble Farmer
The Burning Platform
“Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” – Author Unknown
A couple of months ago I got a call from the dispatcher at our local police department. She said that she’d gotten a report that there was a pig on the main road and wondered if it was one of mine. I was pretty sure it wasn’t and after a quick head count determined that it wasn’t, but as is often the case with stray livestock in our neighborhood I volunteered to go round it up. I forget what I was doing at the time, but that was pretty much the end of my work day as I made my way down to the road with a bucketful of apples. The pig was standing on the shoulder of the road, a nice looking Landrace, plump and well cared for judging by behavior.
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