Intelligent animals
By Joe Dunthorne
The pigs are happy and we cannot
understand why. We mention China’s
industrial explosion but they just shrug
and make a contented sound from deep
inside their rectangular bodies.
What about the media, we ask,
where you are less news-worthy
than dogs. They nuzzle the dirt
and do a little roly-poly.
We show them buckets of antiseptic.
We show them photos of cows on fire.
We show them a documentary
about intensive pig farming.