Comments on: Stranded Pigs Shot To Save Iowa Levees

Nearly A Dozen Pigs Escaped Farm For Higher Ground, But Became Stuck On Sandbags

[nthsouth]

Oh no! They should''ve let them weaken the levee so the town would flood and everyone would lose everything they have worked their whole lives for. STUPID PIGS!

[nlm2383]

Some of you need to give your animal love ranting a rest... They were pigs, they were going to be slaughtered for meat anyways. Like crazycwp said, they were in contaminated water. Even if they were rescued, they wouldn''t have served their purpose and probably would have been killed anyways.

[vanitydog]

Obviously once again the proper autorities were not called prior to blatently shooting the animals. It''s a common thing with ignorant hillbillies who dont know any better. There are 100''s of animal activists who would have come to help get them out of there, but the excuse is always "we had to do something FAST, so just kill them". Police do it,as well as city officials. there is no reason for it, just ignorance and lack of God.

[irliberal]

Typical Iowa thinking. Hey - our levees are weak! Hey! We have some guns! Hey, lets shoot the pigs!

Morons, absolute morons.

[bbirdsr71]

this little piggy went the market
this little piggy went to the levee
this little piggy got shot
this little piggy went we-we-we-we all the way home

[crazycwp]

those hogs were swimming around in contaminated flood waters, so GOOD MEAT was not wasted. so sorry they had to be put down, but people and their properties are more important than hogs. And if you''ve ever been to a commercial hog farm, you would know that killing these hogs was alot more merciful than sending them to another hog farm to suffer in the conditions they are raised in.

[trenticus-2009]

THOSE SWINE! Just kidding...

[redstripe11]

Awww, I can''t believe they shot those poor pigs that were going to be turned into Pork Chops anyway.

Now the price of bacon will probably go up.

[thewarning2]

All that good meat gone to waste!!!

[extremophil]

You survive a flood, swim to safety, climb a sandbag levee.......and get shot. A pigs life just ain''t worth livin.