Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

I love to get in the mud, to appreciate been clean.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.