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In 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
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James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in "Babe", became an ethical vegan and vocal opponent of the unethical treatment of pigs because of the movie.
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A reporter for the Morning Bulletin in Australia once wrote an article about 30 000 pigs escaping from a farm. The paper had to issue a retraction the next day when it transpired the reporter had misheard the farmer. In fact, 30 sows and pigs had escaped.
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In 1976, a giant inflatable pig being used in a Pink Floyd photo shoot broke free and caused all flights at London Heathrow to be grounded and the Royal Air Force to send helicopters to search for it. It landed in a farmer's field unscathed where it scared all of his cows.
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Tensions between the US and UK nearly escalated to war over the killing of a pig in 1859. An American farmer on a disputed island found the pig eating potatoes in his garden and shot it, and after the British threatened arrest, the settlers called for help. Both sides sent major forces.
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Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation to perform at the Woodstock festival, because James' secretary put it to him as "Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field."
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A farmer in Chile tried to kill a pig by shooting at it after failing to kill it with an axe, but the bullet bounced and landed on the face of one of the farmer's employees. "The immortal pig" they call him nowadays.
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In 1859 an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. The conflict escalated to involve 461 Americans & 14 artillery against 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
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The US and Britain nearly went to war in 1859 because an American farmer shot a pig and then refused to pay for it. The US sent 461 men to "make a Bunker Hill of it" and Britain sent 2,140 men and five warships before President Buchanan calmed everyone the heck down.
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Pigs became taboo in the ancient Mideast because they were a burden on farmers and the environment was not suited to raise them in large numbers (pigs prefer forests and shaded areas). In addition, pigs' ideal diet in nuts, fruits, and grains made it a direct competitor to humans.
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A Farmer in Washington state feeds pigs with feed mixed with marijuana
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Robert Pickton, a British Columbian pig farmer who murdered 49 women and fed them to his pigs.
Why do pig farmers say suey?
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Central Park in NYC was seized using eminent domain in 1853 displacing 1,600 poor residents including Irish pig farmers and German gardeners
The US almost went to war with Britain over a dispute that was sparked when an American farmer shot a British owned pig that repeatedly wondered onto his farm. - source
The pig call used by farmers, "Sooie" or "Suey"(Suid) actually mean something. They are both Old Germanic and Latin, respectively, for "Pig". The "Su-" sound is used in many European languages as a precursor for "Pig", such as "Swine". - source
In 2009 a South Korean pig farmer, wanted for assault, cut a hole in the DMZ fence and defected to North Korea.
When were pig bladders invented?
It's common practice for chinese farmers to dump dead pigs in rivers - in march 2013 up to 20.000 dead pigs have been floating through shanghai
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There was a conflict between the US and Britain involving 2,500 men and 5 warships due to a farmer who shot a neighbor's wandering pig because it was eating his potatoes
About Lorimer Shenher, a Canadian trans male police officer who caught wind of serial killer Robert Pickton aka The Pig Farmer Killer. His insistence that this was the source of an estimated 49 missing persons was dismissed by Vancouver police partially because they were indigenous sex workers.
We don't drink pig's milk because not only do they produce much less of it on a daily basis than cows, but also because they can't get pregnant while lactating which produces an economic problem for farmers.
Pig War of 1859 was caused an American farmer shot the pig of an Irishman farmer because it tried to eat his tubers. After calls to arrest each other, it escalated in a 13 year military standoff/occupation, which was finally resolved by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.
