When Tattoos and Art Go to the Hogs – Pig Tattooing
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Widely criticized for some of his vastly controversial methods of artwork on what some deem as highly intelligent pets, conceptual artist Wim Delvoye has found a rather provocative means to express art by tattooing pigs with Disney designs, legendary stories, cartoons, and the Louis Vuitton logo on ‘live skins,’ and raking in exorbitant sums of money for selling their hides.
Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs.
UPDATE:
Due to demands from the artist Wim Delvoye and his agent working on his behalf, all images on this page which had previously appeared here have been removed, including Creative Commons licensed images for which the agent is now challenging the authors over.
In the manner of a tenacious collection agent chasing after delinquent payees, not only were the images demanded to be removed by his agent, but this page entirely — in essence, this entire story.
“We strongly urge you to remove this particular link from the website.” I was given 5 days to comply.
With the series of consistent emails that I received from Wim Delvoye’s agent insisting that we cannot publish any works by the artist without shelling out hundreds of dollars to do so, and demand to remove this article from this website, it has gone from a simple request to a full-blown ordeal over freedom of speech and “fair use.”
This is but one example for which I can say that I am fortunate and feel blessed that I live in a free country where freedom of speech is the right of every citizen. My stubborn streak won’t permit me to be bullied, so citing the freedom of speech act, I refused to concede and delete this article.
After spending hours contacting the Creative Commons agency and various avenues of resources, what I have gleaned by some information is that it’s common belief that screenshots published of publicly available videos is considered ‘fair use,’ and no one has ever been sued for it. It’s been stated that taking a screenshot which is 1 frame of an entire video is only a small fraction of the entire work, and if it’s for informational or educational use and not for profit then the artist probably doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
In addition to freedom of speech, one also has legal rights for “fair use.” Section 107 of the copyright law contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Bearing this in mind, I am within my legal rights to publish the images that appear here, as I am reporting on this artist and conveying the research I have made on him, and teaching our dear viewers by educating you about his works. I am also commenting and offering my criticism.
Close-up view of one of Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs.
Wim Delvoye’s tattoo cartoon handiwork on a pig.
Louis Vuitton logo’s repeatedly tattooed onto a pair of Delvoye’s pigs.
When scare tactics didn’t work and I didn’t succumb to deleting this article, the agent attempted to tug on my heart strings to shell out hundreds of dollars for the ‘privilege’ of publishing some of Wim’s images to promote his work for him with this article stating, “some artists have also become homeless! This is a very sad situation.”
Don’t get me wrong, I highly appreciate artists and love to see them succeed and earn good a living from their creative works.
We receive countless contacts from artists and their agents requesting to be promoted at Life in the Fast Lane, but unfortunately, we cannot accommodate everyone. I support artists in my endeavor to publish interesting and unusual artworks, and wherever possible, we provide links to the artist’s website if they have one, in order to help to promote them.
I am sorry to say however, that I am not a wealthy person, and I don’t make a thin dime for my publications on this site to help sustain the high costs of running it. With that in light, I do what I can to promote artists, but we do not subsidize artists by paying them to promote them.
It can be extremely challenging for artists to garner attention, and to that end, many attempt to create highly controversial works to gain attention and notoriety for themselves. I do ‘get’ that. In fact, I have been a struggling artist myself, and was forced into doing what so many others have done, and gotten a job, as income from my creations was not enough to sustain me. In fact, I became self-employed.
But when someone pushes my buttons with demands to take down the text itself of my own work of content and challenge my freedom of speech, I will not stand down. Nothing had been written here that was defamatory, slanderous, or incorrect. While I had previously held my own personal opinion to myself for the most part, it’s now no holds-barred, baby.
Some artists may not be internet savvy enough to realize that the power of the internet and social media can garner broad attention. As quickly as they may gain notoriety and fame, they can fall from the public’s grace by the same means.
Also to the merit of the net and great friends in social media, I was given direction to my legal rights as a blogger. If you are a blogger, I have revealed one of my blogging secrets to you for use of video screenshots when few images are available. I also urge you to learn your legal rights, and join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that provides a wealth of information in this realm, as I have done.
Wim Delvoye and assistant as he tattoos one of his creations on a pig.
The artist’s signature verifies that the pigs are indeed the handiwork of Wim Delvoye.
Wim Delvoye as he tattoos one of his pigs.
In my quest for information on this artist, I was unable to find anything documented that stated that these pigs receive anything to nullify the pain, while as many as 3 to 4 individuals work at once in various areas on these creatures. It has been stated however that they do receive sedation, which essentially makes them incapable of struggling to escape from the procedure. But watching the videos, one can clearly see that they’re not sedated enough to be put to sleep.
With eyes still closed, the swine begins to put up a struggle to escape the procedure.
No doubt that this creature is in pain.
In this image, one can clearly see the grave look of concern on the assistant’s face
over the struggle with the pig that has been attempting to make its exit,
despite its groggy state of sedation.
Those who have had tattoos done can attest that the procedure can be very painful. For an animal that doesn’t have the capacity to understand what’s being done to them, this can be highly traumatizing.
One person had written that pigs do not have sensitive skin, but did not substantiate the claim with any backup. PETA and other animal activists claim that a pig’s skin is similar to a human being’s in sensitivity.
The Belgian artist moved to China to perform his procedures on pigs, where there are fewer strictures regarding animal welfare and rights than in most parts of the Western world.
What apparently seems to be Wim Delvoye’s ‘Art Farm’ for pigs in Beijing.
Image helps to depict that these pigs are located in Beijing, China.
A pig stall at the farm.
If that isn’t enough to make your skin crawl, Wim Delvoye performed the macabre act of tattooing the back of one Tim Steiner, and sold the ‘works’ to German bidder, Rik Reinking. When Tim dies, his back will be skinned and sent on to Rik. Some will do anything for money and notoriety. Tim will share in the sale of his ‘skin,’ but under contract he must perform as a living canvas publicly 3 times per year.
Tim Steiner displays his tattooed back on a television interview.
Tim Steiner reveals his ‘living canvas’ performed by Wim Delvoye to a TV audience.
Tim Steiner’s lower back.
Tim Steiner’s upper back revealing the black skull above the Virgin Mary, with what
appears to be large bats and vultures swooning around her.
Wim Delvoye’s signature to his living canvas on Tim Steiner’s lower right side.
And if that doesn’t do it for you, Wim Delvoye devised a poop machine that mimics the human digestive system to produce what smells and looks like human feces. The machine has been replicated and updated for various installations on public display. Not only that, the artist has sold works of his own feces. He has even convinced friends to daub their ‘private parts’ with toxic substances to enable x-ray images of them to be taken while performing sex acts which have been put on public display.
The “Cloaca machine,” Latin for “toilet.” Wim Delvoye said he “built Cloaca
to stop people from treating their sh*t like sh*t.”
The Cloaca poop machine spews out its production which is then packaged and sold.
Who is actually crazy enough to pay hard earned cash for this, quite literally, sh*t?
In light of all of the above, if you still care to be more informed about this artist’s work, read on as this article had been published in its original form (sans previous images), but the link to his website has been removed, of my own volition, for apparent reasons. Cached pages of websites may still be available for a certain duration, ahem.
Wim Delvoye’s story continues …
The tattooed pigs are displayed at art exhibitions — their skins are sold to art collectors after slaughter, or they can buy the animals and pay for their upkeep until their demise and then have them skinned. Art buyers can also purchase a pig to take home to live with them, but Delvoye has claimed that none have actually done so.
The Belgian artist has made a lucrative business for his notorious methods, commanding as much as $150,000 U.S. (one million yuan) a skin for themes ranging from prominent stories and cartoons to religious depictions of Jesus and the Virgin Mother Mary.
Born in the municipality of Wervik, West Flanders, Belgium in 1965, Delvoye moved his ‘practice’ to a small farm in the small village of Chenjiatuo, Shunyi District, Beijing, China in 2004, where there are fewer strictures regarding animal welfare and rights than in most parts of the Western world.
At his ‘Art Farm’ as the artist calls it, the young pigs are tattooed, and then raised while the ‘art piece’ grows over time as they mature.
It’s been claimed that the animals are first sedated and then shaved and tattooed just as human would be, but watching the video below, one can clearly see that these creatures are not fully asleep while being made into a living art project.
Once full-grown, the pigs are taken to a taxidermist to be skinned and cured to make wall hangings, stretched over frames to produce pictures from their hides, or fully stuffed as taxidermied statues.
Delvoye first began tattooing artwork on the skins of dead pigs at Belgium in 1992, and evolved to work on live pigs by 1997.
He was scheduled to appear with 8 of his pigs tattooed with Disney designs and the Louis Vuitton logo at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair last September, but officials pulled the plug in him shortly before the exhibition was set to open after deciding it was in poor taste.
“We have collectors who’ve traveled to China all the way from Europe to see the pigs.” said a disgruntled Delvoye. “They’re very disappointed.”
Animal rights and PETA activists have had concerns, stating that a pig’s skin closely resembles a human’s in sensitivity. Sitting through countless hours under the needle, the animals are put through severe pain with as many as 3 or 4 tattooists working at once to cover their entire backs and sides, whereas the work is progressed over numerous sessions on humans.
Aside from the pain, they say the sheer intensity of anxiety, fear, and confusion that these creatures go through as they fail to understand what’s happening to them is an atrocity.
Delvoye’s infamous fondness of pigskin as a medium for live investments of ‘piggybanks’ which was challenged at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair was preceded with a shocking event the week prior when he sold a ‘living tattoo’ on another man’s back that took 35 hours to create.
The artist inked the back of a Swiss man which he sold to German collector, Rik Reinking from Hamburg, for $216,000. The contract states the collector can display the 31-year-old musician Tim Steiner’s back, bearing a tattoo of the Virgin Mary and a death skull 3 times a year as a living canvas. When Steiner dies, the tattoo will be skinned from his back and passed on to the collector. The work can also be resold, donated, or bequeathed like any other artwork.
Steiner denies that the concept is macabre.
“If the project finishes the way it should, and the skin will be removed and properly framed, then I will exist forever, at least a part of me will, and I find that concept more exciting than morbid.” Steiner said.
One of Delvoye’s most ill-famed installations was his Cloaca (Latin for ‘toilet’) exhibit — a machine that mimics the human digestive system to produce what smells and looks like human feces, which was first exhibited at the MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp) in 2000.
Once installed on-site, the machine became a living thing with real human stomach bacteria that had to be fed a meal twice a day, the feces coming out the other end of the processing unit as a result of the ‘digestion’ of the food.
The logo and other promotional artwork of the Cloaca project was a parody of the logos of Coca-Cola, Ford, Mr. Clean, among other brands. The feces produced by the Cloaca machines were sold vacuum-packed in translucent boxes.
Around 2001, Delvoye arranged for some of his friends to paint parts of their bodies with small amounts of barium — a soft silver-white toxic chemical element — who then had sex in actual medical clinics, and x-rays taken of the acts.
The x-rays were presented as large stained-glass church windows at exhibitions. From a distance they appeared as abstract forms, but on closer inspection you could see what the images were actually composed of.
The artist had used this method previously for his art piece entitled “Mosaic” in 1992. The work consists of glazed tiles bearing an identical image, arranged to form symmetrical and highly ornate patterns. But when you examine it closely you realize that each tile bears the image of 2 pieces of feces — the artist’s own excrement.
Wim Delvoye’s Tattooed Pigs
Cloaca the Poop Machine
Sources: Bella Online, Art Info, and Wikipedia
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Well, this is sick, sick, sick! Poor pigs!
Bizarre! Did anyone ask the pigs how they felt about it? Right on, Kuanyin.
This is completely new thing on the net. Pigs are getting tatoo??? I am going to spread this page over the net.
While many of the tatto designs are undeniably impressive, any activity that causes animal’s pain, stress or discomfort for the sake of human entertainment is backward and should be relegated to the annals of history. If the internet didn’t exist fascination with this cruelty would die…
What the hell is everyone’s problem to think that this is ok? Tattooing pigs? everyone who thinks that this is alright should have to go throught the pain of getting a tattoo and see how it feels. Putting animals through this type of pain for YOUR SICK AMUSEMENT? that’s disgusting and you should be locked up in jail and be ashamed of yourself? YOU GUYS ARE SICK. I HOPE ALL WHO ARE DOING THIS TATTOOING ON ANY TYPE OF ANIMAL GET TIME IN PRISON.
this is animal torture, but it looks funny
seems like the pigs are enjoying
My apologies to everyone for such a late reply, I haven’t been feeling well.
Kuanyin, it is sick, and I really feel for these poor pigs.
Apparently not, Robin.
Certainly, the works may be impressive Paul, but what was used for canvas was not. The internet can be a love/hate thing to either promote good or something like this.
I’m with you, Cora. My husband has had a number of tattoos, and I’ve seen the pain that he’s endured through the process and what his skin has gone through. Just to do his forearm took several sessions, and it wasn’t restricted merely by time. It had to heal for several weeks before the next session began. I may be wrong, but it sure appears to be done on the entire pig in one fell swoop.
Well it may appear funny at first glance Kevin, but given even a small amount of thought, it truly isn’t. While they don’t appear to be mistreated otherwise, I don’t think that the pigs are enjoying it whatsoever.
Poor pigs. I can’t believe what are they doing to them. I think everyone should be concerned about this. Animals shouldn’t suffer because of human stupidity.
Thanks Judit. It never ceases to amazes me how far-reaching some human stupidity can be in countless instances
utterly bizzare the things we do.
Damn, I was trying to avoid these and I accidentally clicked on this one.
Utterly horrible, disgusting, and inhumane.
this is awsome I am almost completly covered in tatoos and I own Apig and I still think this is ok. Call me crazy I guess.
I don’t like cruelty in form, but to cause pain to children or animals is disgusting. And, to ad insult to injury, he’s just not that good of an artist.
Shock artists, like most shock jocks, have a very short life span.
That Belgian “artist” should fire his agent and stop calling himself “artist”… I guess in Hitlers Germany you was free to call yourself a “designer” making bags and accessories out of human skin.
Deborah as you know I have first hand experience how these things can progress. Please keep us up to date. I am going to write few posts about this on my blogs.
So he is demanding “thousands of dollars” for his art to be featured here. I am just curious- does he have a license to reproduce the Disney trademarks?
You go girl, expose these bullies and let them know they picked the wrong blogger to mess with.
And if they still come after you, they’ll have to come after me too, and after Phil, and after all our friends… how many are we in the network? 200, 300? 500? How many in all our networks together?
A “struggling” artist who creates crap needs to get paid to be promoted?! He is full of s**t isn’t he? LOL
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Yes Vlad, many of us were behind you through your torrid ordeal. Thankfully justice won out in the end
Just for the record, it wasn’t thousands that his agent was asking for, it was somewhere in the hundreds, although it wasn’t entirely clear, as they were going to base it on how long the images were posted.
Good point about licensing to reproduce Disney trademarks
There are also the Louis Vuitton logo’s to consider as well.
Hehehe, thanks Mig
There is a vast difference between reporting on something and promoting them as a blogger, especially for non-profit, from using an image for a marketing purpose.
Take for example one of the images used in our rotating banner … it’s been used to market as our logo, so the artist was paid a fee for the use of his image for a specific period, which I was more than happy to do.
As an artist it makes me sad to see a fellow artist who will go to ANY length for ‘fame’ or at the very least ‘attention’. This is clearly WRONG!
As to the legal stuff and YOUR argument with the agent/artist? The artist should also take note that it is against copyright law to use Disney characters or any other well known copyrighted logo or character ‘for profit’. I had a friend who was sued by Disney for painting Disney characters on glass. She wound up settling and paying them off. Disney DOES go after people. Disney has books that ‘teach you how’ to draw their characters, but it is clearly stated that you may not use them for ‘profit’. That is the clear difference…’profit’. This artist has no leg to stand on w/you. Besides, he is gaining by the attention.
I would say in payment for his cruelty, he should be required to receive hours of tattoos on ‘his’ back, to see how that feels.
I find it pathetic that he wanted to sue you, yet his signature is clearly a play on the W Disney logo…
That’s kinda mean…:( I got tats, but I had a choice, ya know.
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Hi There,
From late 1954 to early 1956 my dad was stationed in Singapore, Malaysia doing national service and because of his position or rather lack of position he traveled a little while he was there. When I was a child he used to tell me stories of people he met while he was there and mention people who where tattooed to their necks, wrists and ankles, men and woman. He said that they had sold their skins and when they died their skin would be striped for the person who had paid for it he said this was common practice in Asian countries I only half believed him. When I mentioned the pigs he said they used to use them to practice on then so this information does not surprise me. As for it being anything other than what it is I don’t know but I do know it’s not new or innovative. It’s just another westerner exploiting the less fortunate as they do all the time anyway the only difference is pigs can’t say no and don’t get paid, probably quite the opposite they get slaughtered. I wonder which ones the pig.
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I’M GONNA KEEP IT REAL. IT’S LIKE THIS KIDS… IM A TATTOO ARTIST, IVE BEEN GETTING TATTOO’D SINCE I WAS 12 YEARS OLD AND MY PEOPLE ARE TATTOO ARTIST’S. WE ALL HAVE COMPLETE TATTOO BODY SUITS, FOR OUR OWN PERSONAL REASONS OFCOURSE. BUT FOR THE PAST YEAR MY BEST CRIME PARTNER AND I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO GET A PIG, WE EACH WANT OUR OWN SINCE WE HAVE MONEY TO SPEND. I REMIND YOU WE ARE TATTOO ARTISTS.
PERSONALLY. WHEN I GET MY PIG, I’M GOING TO CALL HIM MR. OINKY IN TRIBUTE TO HOMER’S PRIZED PIG, WITCH HE TRAGICALLY LOST WHEN HIS (MC HAMMERS) HOUSE WAS REPOSSESSED.
I AM GOING TO TREAT MR. OINKY LIKE A PRINCE….BETTER YET: A GOD.
BETTER THAN ZEUS AND JEBUS AND ALL THEM. WHEN I FEEL THE TIME HAS COME AND MR. OINKY HAS EARNED HIS PLACE AMONGST US. I AM GOING TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF GIVING MR. OINKY HIS TATTOO BODY SUIT. AND HE’S GOING TO BE RESPECTED AND TREATED LIKE A DECENT, LIVING, TATTOO’D ORGANISM. JUST LIKE US.
That’s my story… and yes it was pointless.
However unlike you who had a choice Da Skiss your pig does not!
I wonder if the roles were reverse and you did not want a tat how would you feel? Let us forget as you say it is an organism and call it a test tube being because after all is said and done that is what it is. Today it is a pig tomorrow let see maybe a neighbors dog and so on. At what point does one stop look in the mirror and say WTF!!! Am I for REAL!
I am glad to read that some people are on my side with this. Tattooing an animal is lame. Your lame if you tattoo an animal. Its ok to be dominant but you dont have to exploit it. Other than that the designs look cool.
tatooing pig is the most stupidist thing ive ever saw or heard of
Im a tattoo junky. To tattoo an already tortured animal or any animal is just wrong. One day you’ll get what’s coming to you. I hope you get ink poisoning in your blood and suffer. FU!!
Wow…poor pigs…I guess it’s a good way to practice the art of tatoo. Do the pigs get paid for this gig?
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what a poor pig…
i can imagine the pain that the pig feel..
i think it is stupid to make tatoo on pig , because it is cruel and also dumbass..
do you agree?
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poor pigs…. I never heard of such a thing, just because old world countries have practiced this for years, IT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT…… Traditions change, and hopefully this is stopped.
I can see why people say poor pigs, but animals have been branded for thousands of years. Many in the tattooing community still consider modern branding of humans barbaric and unsanitary, yet thousands of young consenting adults get this done each year. Many of the elite of America have their animal branded, to include even their pets, as a way of preventing theft. Some have even had their signature put on their horse with liquid nitrogen, a less painful modern way of branding. I do not agree with tattooing live animals, yet the gentle man does sedate them for the process and seems to put great thought and care into their treatment. Perhaps a better way would be the gentlemans earlier idea of just tattooing animal skin that is purchased from a butcher. Although I am sure there would still be many who find that wrong as well, those vegitarians are the ones I am refering to. Yet despite their best efforts they will never be able to convince the majority to stop eating meat. And to the vegitarians I say, what did that poor defenseless plant ever do to you. Perhaps I am to literal in my spiritual/religious upbring, where man was put in charge of animals and this planet, though we havent done the greatest job. Still this is a debate that has many pros and cons. I dont see enough wrong with what the gentleman is doing to warrant such criticism to him. Everyperson is guilty of some wrong doing on some level. As Jesus said, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Perhaps we should all look inward at our own flaws first and foremost. Myself included. But above all else just enjoy art for what it is art. Art is defined as what is pleasing to look upon by that person who is doing the looking. If you dont like it then look elsewhere, and leave those who do enjoy looking at alone.
Sad and disgusting. The Natzis used to make lamp shades and other things out of tatooed human skin, i found the creep factor of this not much different. Those pigs didn’t sign up for this, of course it causes them pain. The fact that he went to China (notorious for it’s complete lack of concern for animals, & abuse) does not speak well for him. I wish he’d stick to consenting humans for his tatoos.
ppl like you are dangerous!play with your skin!when you finish it take it away and may be the animals are save!
How about you never had a choice of what crap i paint into your skin…you suck!
YOU ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANIMAL CRUELTY !!! BOYCOTT THIS “ARTIST” PLS!!
I can’t believe these retarded people actually tatooed pigs.
Who gave them the right to such cruelty?
How dare they?
Absolutely wrong. If people want a tatoo is their problem & it’s their right, they have a choice, but the pigs?
So wrong and cruel.
THIS IS NOT AN ART , IT’S A CRIME!!YOU ARE SADIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just who do you think you are? You have no right to be doing this to any animal. Trust me you will be hearing from the Humane Society and will be charged with Animal Cruelty!
It might be a little different if tattooing wasn’t a painful process, but it is. Haven’t we caused enough pain, suffering, torture, etc. to these beautiful, intelligent creatures already? Please, from an artist to another, find a more creative, cruelty-free way of expressing yourself through art.
Hurting animals is not art and the fact that you enjoy causing them pains makes you a psycho..
sick sick sick no excuses for you
It’s disgusting, self serving behaviour. Lets do something different people – let’s start finding a use for our lives that doesn’t involve harming other living creatures. If this is what I was going to be remembered or famous for I would be ashamed. To me it’s immaterial whether it is artistic or makes a clever statement. It inane because of the shallow and cruel use of animals.
Stick to to the cloaca machines (how apt) and leave the pigs alone.
WTF? – thats horrible. I have tatts too, and some say they dont hurt – WELL THEY DO HURT – ALOT
I would never think someone would practice on a pig.
SICK
CW LEE you don’t know sh**… This type of animal cruely is not only deemed wrong by vegetarians. Trying to back your self up with the bible here when you don’t even know it, at the same time supporting cruelty, your not a christian your a typical hypocrite just as the pharisees and sadducees. In the beginning when man was in the garden of Eden (gen. 1:29), man was not permitted to eat meat, this was the original vision of God in the bible, the one you quote. Adam and Eve where to be strict vegetarians, even after the fall from grace they were permitted to eat thorns, thistles, herbs of the field and bread (gen. 3:18-19). It wasn’t until after the flood of noah’s time that man was permitted to eat meat (gen. 9:3-4). Next in Exodus 12:8-9 the Lord says thru Moses to eat lamb, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs during the passover. Exodus 16 speaks of quails and manna from heaven. Leviticus states the laws and restrictions for eating, (lev.7:23-27) and (lev.11:1-47) forbids eating of swine among other things. The Jewish faith had and still has strict kosher laws insuring the purity of the animals for consumption. A little further look will reveal that many of the prominent biblical prophets were in sync with the ways of the nazirites (num.6) and melchizedeks (heb. 7) which limits consumption for attaining utmost purity. So, to tie this all together for you, when Adam and Eve where removed from the garden as vegetarians, God no longer provided the fruits and veggies freely, but they had to work for food (gen. 19-23). With the knowledge of good and evil man was set forth out of Eden to attain the state of perfection exemplified in the garden thru hard work and determination. The whole point of the bible is to teach others how to seek to attain the perfection we once had or may have. Sure we may eat meat, but is it expedient. God in the bible didn’t think so in the original vision. You are a perfect example of the need for humanity to reach a higher state of enlightenment and being, that we should hopefully learn thru our trials and tribulations of life. As far as what that poor defenseless plant has done, nice try jack***, but that is way beside the point. You simply reek of ignorance, no wonder you think tatooing pigs is okay… My advice is go back to reading the bible, and actually know what your saying before you express your unevolved mind. And further more from an environmental standpoint with the present overpopulation of our planet meat eating is extremely taxing on our resources, meat as a diets mainstay is simply irresponsible to the longevity of our existance on this planet. Its wasteful because people like you are selfish and lack consideration for their actions.
I pray your sickness of the head is healed by Gods grace…
So sick people… The man is the real “beast”. The pigs are not objects! Allow them to live calm!
Go vegan… be happy ♥
Obviously the artist’s “agent” was “putting you on”. After all the artist is, himself, copying logos, trademarks and designs of many recognized Brands. You fell for that one.
Obviously he’s commenting on how animals are used and abused for commerce etc. I have to say it’s disgusting. But the reality of the 100′s of millions of animals that are slaughtered EACH DAY. It seems a bit ludicrous — when you consider the pain and anxiety of all those creatures — that tattooing pigs is considered offensive.
I think everyone should be concerned about this. Animals shouldn’t suffer because of human stupidity.