Lipstick on a Pig

Aside from the obvious media circus attraction to these quotes at this moment, I have chosen to share a few lovely short bits on the animals of the hour in celebration of my decision to no longer practice vegetarianism.
...I threw in the Bible quotes to cheer up Palin. 

There was a time not so long ago when pigs were afforded no respect, except by other pigs; they lived their whole lives in a cruel and sunless world.  In those days pigs believed that the sooner they grew large and fat, the sooner they'd be taken into Pig Paradise, a place so wonderful that no pig had ever thought to come back. (Babe)

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." (Matthew 7:6)

When He arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met Him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. 29 “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?” Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. 31 The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. (Matthew 8:29-32)

In 1474 the Bishop of Lausanne sentenced a pig to be hanged because it had killed a child. According to his orders, the pig was to be left suspended as a warning to other potential offenders. (135, Merback The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel)

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. (Deut. 14:8)

Pig love is honoring your dead father by clubbing a beloved sow to death on his grave-site and roasting it in an earth oven dug on the spot. Pig love is stuffing fistfuls of cold, salted belly fat into your brother-in-law's mouth to make him loyal and happy. Above all, pig love is the great pig feast held once or twice a generation, when to satisfy the ancestors' craving for pork, assure communal health and secure victory in future wars, most of the adult pigs are killed off and gluttonously devoured. (from Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture by Martin Harris)

Some Pig. (Charlotte)