Amthat’s so messed up, how you would do that to a poor innocent animal

Then there are those pictures at which you sort of stare in slightly confused face-scrunched disbelief and after you finish exclaiming “What the f—?” you look a little closer and realize that, yes indeed, it is a large and narcotized pig getting tattooed by professional artists somewhere in Beijing, and you’re at once mildly repulsed and intrigued and you think, oh man, what a cruel and weird world this is, you know?

Until you learn that said pig feels no pain because he is, like, totally sedated, and he won’t be slaughtered as soon as his bacon-bound brethren given how he’s now considered, you know, an art piece, and will instead live a full and happy life and his skin will be displayed on someone’s wall after he dies.

“My other hog is a Harley”
So now maybe you think, well OK, so maybe it’s not so bad, maybe the pig will now be considered sort’ve a badass among his porcine pals, I suppose, but then you think about it again and you’re still like, wait wait wait, isn’t this just a little disconcerting, that we’re tattooing pigs? Is something not just a little, oh I don’t know, off about this? Of course there is…

But then your calm voice of warped human understanding kicks in and reminds you of the roughly 10 billion rather hideous deeds we as humans enact upon virtually all living creatures on the planet to make them conform to our mutated aesthetics and our dietary needs and our omnivorous demands and hence you realize tattooing a pig is probably right up there with clipping a horse’s tail or hacking away at your poodle until it looks like a series of giant cotton balls tied together with hunks of pink skin. In other words, it ain’t no thing. It just seems like it should be.

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So finally you sort of back away from the pig picture, not quite sure what to think, is it cool or is it disturbing or is it gross or is it inhumane or is it fascinating or maybe it’s all of these at once, and you can’t really parse it all that well so you blink a few times and shrug and go watch something cute and harmless and sweet like the live panda videocam from the National Zoo in D.C.

There, all better.

amthat’s so messed up, how you would do that to a poor innocent animal

pmthis is really horrible that you do this to this innocent animals!!! they have no choice! if you want to tattoo so bad then do it on yourself…or people that actually want it done! i would call you guys pigs but that would be a compliment!

this guy actually houses and keeps these pigs alive for a piggy lifetime and all he requires back from them is the canvas of thier skins — instead of the life they’d usually be required to give. so now decide.

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