readalot
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I've been seeing this "harm reduction" debate all over the place here.
The reality is the forum is what the members make it to be regardless of what someone wants it to be. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
'Some Pig': E.B. White, Farming and 'Charlotte's Web'
The story behind the most famous pig of all.
modernfarmer.com
“Charlottes Web” was published in 1952. The following spring, says Sims, White’s stepson Roger Angell, an accomplished sports writer and former fiction editor at The New Yorker, visited the farm with his daughter. White’s granddaughter had learned that a pig on the farm was slated for death, and having read her grandfather’s book, took it upon herself to try and save its life. She drew a picture inspired by “Charlotte’s Web,” and attached it to the pig’s pen for White to discover in the morning, just as Wilbur’s owners had discovered Charlotte’s message.
“E.B. White laughed and went up to tell his wife that this miraculous thing had happened in the night,” says Sims. “And then as far as I could find out, that fall he went ahead and killed the pig.”
After all, he was still a farmer.
Good short read. White really had a special relationship with pigs.
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