strange days
Pigs: delicious, and apparently indestructible. Unless, I guess, if you eat them.
China is celebrating a pig that survived 36 days buried under earthquake rubble, subsisting on leaking water and charcoal. Not surprisingly, it lost two thirds of its body weight. New health trend alert: the charcoal diet!
The pig has been named Zhu Jianqiang, which translates into “Strong Pig”. Seems apt, if somewhat literal.
The pig has been bought by the curator of a local museum, who plans to keep the ungulate “as a living symbol of the earthquake disaster”. Sounds good to me.
Photo: This is not the miracle pig. It is, however, a profoundly self-satisfied porker.
June 25th, 2008 by graeme |
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