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Old 12-15-2017, 09:29 AM
 
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Old 12-15-2017, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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One reason why I keep my pigs well fed!!
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Old 12-15-2017, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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This shouldn't surprise anyone. Animal corpses disappear. It takes less than 24 hours where I live to leave just a skeleton. The bones are scattered and unnoticeable within a couple days more.

Even animals considered solely herbivorous find little protein packets to be attractive. For example, deer will eat nestlings who have fallen to the ground.
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Old 12-15-2017, 12:25 PM
 
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They buy a house in rural New England and their dog digs up a dead body in the front yard. It was the grandmother or some relation to the previous owners whom buried her there.
I wonder how title insurance would handle this situation in real life, or in a scenario were the home was in a State that did not allow home burial, could you have the authorities remove the body for you, or pass expenses on to the powers that be.

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Hogs are carnivorous...
Odd dichotomy here in that we slaughter and eat hogs regularly, the supermarkets all have pork sections in the refrigerated section. Indeed, hog farmers may seek subsidies and/or lobby congress if their industry experienced setbacks or slow periods and it rarely if ever makes the press (unless there's a health scare involved in consuming pork).

But when the shoe is on the other foot (hoof?) it makes front page...

Wasn't hungry hogs one way a victim of Hannibal Lechter going to use in a revenge plot in one of the "Silence of The Lambs" movies?
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Old 12-15-2017, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Iowa
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Yes, I can't remember the movie where they talked about the best way to get rid of a body, and how you shouldn't tick off a hog farmer. If you get those pigs hungry enough, they will eat every single part of a dead person, except the teeth. Those wild boars are mean, I remember an old Disney movie, think it was Old Yeller, which had a scene where some guy was badly gored by a wild hog and nearly died or something. Some states have a major overpopulation of wild hogs, If you see one, shoot it and eat it right away, lol. I bet they are yummy.

I haven't watched Funny Farm in a while, although the movie starts off in the summer season, it ends during Christmas season, and it's really a pretty good Christmas movie, and it has a happy ending. I know very little about the various state laws concerning lost and found bodies on your property, and what you could be liable for, lol.

Another impressive housing idea I recall, some 20 years ago I saw a program about a small community that had formed in the outback of Australia. They were cliff dwellers, not Aboriginal, but white people who drilled out the sides of rock cliffs, they had huge 10,000 square ft homes dug out with drilling equipment. It was super cheap to heat or cool, and not prone to mice because it was solid rock all the way thru, they just dug out various chambers for different rooms, and installed wiring and plumbing, painted the walls as they pleased. It looked pretty sweet, no drywall and wood only used for doors, mostly just hollowed out rock. Nice and sturdy, long lasting, quiet.

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Old 12-15-2017, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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There are more hogs then people where I live. Depending on the SHTF scenario The 10's of thousands of animals would be released into the wild (farmers from here sold 1.7 million market pigs last yr). Of course many would not survive the first few winters but swine are very hardy and eventually would regain a large foothold in the food chain.....
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Old 12-15-2017, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Back and Beyond
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Being eaten by a pig could be considered the ultimate "green burial". I'm surprised this hasn't caught on with urban environmentalists yet. It would save a lot on funeral expenses and provide free feed.
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Old 12-16-2017, 06:42 AM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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Being eaten by a pig could be considered the ultimate "green burial". I'm surprised this hasn't caught on with urban environmentalists yet. It would save a lot on funeral expenses and provide free feed.
Yeah, but once the get a taste for "Soylent Green" they may not want to go back to their regular feed!
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