Oh the humanity.

For as charming and vibrant as they are, it is simply impractical to keep pigs as pets on a farm. They don’t produce milk like the farm’s dozens of goats, can’t be sheared for wool like their sheep, don’t lay eggs, herd, chase vermin or scare away predators. They’re simply not useful, from a strictly practical standpoint, so to buy and raise a piglet is a commitment to turning it into food. That doesn’t make the act of their slaughter any easier to watch.

Josh Kilmer Purcell and Brent Ridge, the pigs’ owners, are fledgling farmers and yes, they have a reality show about it – Planet Green’s ‘The Fabulous Beekman Boys’ – but they are by no means unserious when it comes to the welfare of the animals they raise.

Don’t forget. Pigs are only meant to eat. Yes this was on the home page of CNN.com.