Comments on: Repent, for the end is near!

By: Megann

Megann — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:50:48 +0000

What people don’t get about art is that it is a direct barometer of culture… all the extremes in the world and this is what you get.

What the hell do you do with a Jasmine tattooed pig ass skin?

How idiotic and boring.

By: Bob G

Bob G — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:43:09 +0000

For god’s sake those pics of a bunch of ping’s and pakeha
permanently scarring porcine creatures has nothing to do with eating meat. merry XMAS 2008

By: GetOverIt

GetOverIt — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:43:27 +0000

Honestly People,

Its a pig, not a Human, stop crying for rights for animals. It was created to pick up slop. Its a garbage disposal that some like to eat for breakfast. Worry about the human race and all of its problems before you worry about the emotional condition of a pig.

By: Mary K

Mary K — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:24:30 +0000

Also, tattooing pigs is really ridiculous, in my opinion.

By: Mary K

Mary K — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:21:37 +0000

My thought is that this is for no purpose. Like killing an animal and then leaving it to rot. When I eat other animals, I try my best to ensure that the animals were treated as humanely as possible, before and during death. This means that the meat I eat is mostly free-range, hormone-free chicken and wild deer that a family member killed. So I have thought this through and continue to think about it each time I see a chicken or livestock truck on the highway.

By: Dr. Doll

Dr. Doll — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:38:51 +0000

Mary,

You missed the point. (The art, if that’s what it is, may make one think about eating and wearing animals if one is sensitive enough to feel hypocritical when one says “Oh, the poor pig!” about the tattooing and then puts on a leather jacket and goes home and eats one!) One wonders if that was the “artist’s” intent — not that intent is relevant to art.

That is my interpretation of the tattooing as a possible work of art. That does not mean that I agree with the work of “art” or its potential effect.

I take no stand on whether you should eat meat. I made my own personal decision on that growing up on a farm, where we did our own butchering.

But, Mary, since we are talking about logic, you suggest that the butcher of a pig is not torture. Do you really believe that? Have you ever seen a pig butchered? They scream! Have you ever chopped off a chicken’s head. I have. Even chickens are terrified just before the machette comes down. Hey, what about Lobsters being boiled alive?

But, I’m not arguing that one should not eat meat. I’m just asking you about your own logic.

By: Mary K

Mary K — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:20 +0000

Dr Doll, I think your comment is misled. Just because I eat meat doesn’t mean I abuse my dog. I eat free-range, hormone-free chicken. To say that since I like bacon I must enjoy torturing pigs is bad logic and is simply not true.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:46:01 +0000

I think the whole idea is kinda stupid. As so many have said, it is not art in the least. The tattoists may be artists, and original drawing for the cartoon charactors are considered art by some, but to put these thing together a pig? As my grandmother used to say “it’s like farting through a key hole, its clever, but is it art?” Also, as far as the pig being terrified or confused, I would have to assume that they are sedated in some way, otherwise they would not just lie there and take it.

By: T

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:28:52 +0000

It is interesting how people find time to come up with things like that in the name of “art.” Tattooing a pig with images is inhumane, regardless of restraints, regardless of pain (I’d think the pig in the image must have some kind of local anesthaetic as it is very calm, though.)

Anything in the name of a buck is what I’m seeing.. Art.. Ha…

By: Dr. Doll

Dr. Doll — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:04:38 +0000

I thought only mother-in-laws and Wall Street people were omnivorous.