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...endangered should be fair game. Observes Georg Blikfeldt of Norway's High North Association, a lobbying organization: "Nobody wants to hunt the large whales anymore because they are threatened. But the argument that whales must therefore not be hunted at all is like saying that because one breed of pig is on the verge of dying out, nobody should eat pork...
Offutt was raised in the hills of Kentucky. "Hillbilly was what the people in town called us," he writes. "Hick, ridgerunner, redneck, inbred ingrate, and my personal favorite, pig-fucker. My mother is my sixth cousin. My brother and sister are also my cousins but nobody in my family ever seduced a hog." Dissatisfied by the prospect of a life lived by moonshine and bluegrass, Offutt sets out for New York City to become an actor. He roams the U.S., never managing to hold down a job or a relationship; we see him dodge an arranged marriage in Minneapolis, grab...
...TALKIN' TO YOU, NIGGER," A voice hisses as the visitor walks through the gloomy passageway. "Faggot," taunts another. With every step comes a whispered insult, a mean murmur: "Loudmouthed kike! Lousy gook! Dumb Polack! Camel jockey! Red-neck bastard! Sexist pig! Goddam beaner! Get whitey!" A wolf whistle rings out and a leering voice calls, "Hey, baby." And with every message of hate, the feeling of alarm grows. "What you gonna do about...
...PIG: Animal of girth...
...Marilyn Nissenson and Susan Jonas (Abrams; $34.95). As this work whimsically demonstrates, porkers are everywhere, from OvidUs verses to Miss Piggy's flirtations; from cartoons to medical labs, where cross-species organ transplants led scientists to observe, "Man is more nearly like the pig than the pig wants to admit...