0:00:02 > 0:00:06This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15MUSIC: Old MacDonald Had A Farm
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Once upon a time, a pig was born.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26A very clever pig indeed.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28She had thoughts and dreams,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31she learnt to do all sorts of things,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34from how to count, to how to read,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37though she never quite learnt how to fly...
0:00:39 > 0:00:43..and as she grew and ate, and ate and grew,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46her piglet brain expanded, too,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and so she studied really hard
0:00:49 > 0:00:53all she heard and all she saw,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56not wanting just to be a tub of lard.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Hello, I'm Dorothy.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13I'm a young saddleback pig.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17They say I'm just one of over two billion pigs
0:01:17 > 0:01:18on earth at the moment.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Oh, sorry! That's my big brother.
0:01:23 > 0:01:29He can recognise me because of the marks on my ears and on my bum...
0:01:36 > 0:01:40..and that's Mum, six weeks ago now, with my sisters and brothers...
0:01:46 > 0:01:47..and that's me....
0:01:47 > 0:01:49popping out the back.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06It doesn't take too long to get myself sorted.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I know it looks like a free-for-all, but it really isn't.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Each of us has our own teat.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17The first-born gets the best upfront, and so on down.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26I'm eighth out. It just takes a bit of a shove to find mine.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34OINKING
0:03:03 > 0:03:07TRANSLATION:
0:03:54 > 0:03:57OINKING
0:04:41 > 0:04:44ELECTRICAL BUZZ
0:04:46 > 0:04:48PIG SQUEALS
0:06:54 > 0:06:57MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:05 > 0:08:08SHOUTING
0:08:46 > 0:08:48HORN HONKS
0:09:42 > 0:09:44THEY CONVERSE IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:13:24 > 0:13:26PIGLET SQUEALS
0:15:05 > 0:15:07ANIMATED CHATTER
0:17:22 > 0:17:23That feels better.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Three weeks. Four kilos already.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35We've been put together with a whole pack of all the pigs.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40So now I have my family AND friends to play with.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Mum's still around and keeps us fed.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47She is in a bad mood,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51some of her older children were driven away yesterday.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53I wonder where they've gone.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55SIZZLING
0:18:04 > 0:18:06TRANSLATION:
0:22:14 > 0:22:16CHILDREN EXCLAIM
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- GIRL:- So many people don't want to know the truth.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I knew they were getting killed,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12but I never knew it was going to happen like this.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18Compared with human beings, it's just a weird feeling you get.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26I was feeling sick when I was in there because there was, like,
0:24:26 > 0:24:31blood and, you know, there are brains and it's just really...
0:24:31 > 0:24:36We were like, remember to stand right, cos if you stand on the...
0:24:36 > 0:24:42- Heel.- Heel. You can...- Just fade. - ..fade out.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47It wasn't dead when they cut it up here.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51So, yes, that was pretty gross, if you can say it like that.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56There's nobody will stop eating it because they love it
0:24:56 > 0:25:00and they kind of... everything, you know.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02It's a big part of our life.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04And it's also a big part for Denmark.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07When other countries think about Denmark,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09they think pigs and bacon and stuff -
0:25:09 > 0:25:12and it's the way we earn money.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46PIG SQUEALS
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Six weeks. 10 kilos now.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08We're lucky.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10We can go out whenever we like...
0:27:11 > 0:27:14..and we can eat all the time.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Lots of barley, oats, all sorts of things,
0:27:17 > 0:27:18and they don't even make us work for it.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22The men look after us really well.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50- Where's the plane?- The storm must have dragged it out to sea.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53- What's your name?- Ralph.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I don't care what they call me as long as they don't call me
0:27:56 > 0:27:58what they did at school.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00What's that.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05- They used to call me Piggy.- Piggy.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08As long as you don't tell the others.
0:28:12 > 0:28:17If we have the slightest opportunity to be unpleasant to people
0:28:17 > 0:28:19or creatures, we will be.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26So we are trying to invest others with what it is
0:28:26 > 0:28:28that we are infected with...
0:28:31 > 0:28:34..but in fact we're being rather unfair to pigs.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40We're infected with a mean spirit.
0:28:42 > 0:28:46I think that is one of our main traits
0:28:46 > 0:28:52and we try to hide it under the guise of what we call civilisation.
0:28:52 > 0:28:57But in fact we are repressing that
0:28:57 > 0:29:00in the hope that we can be nicer than we are
0:29:00 > 0:29:04because I think, secretly, we disgust ourselves.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08HE HUMS A TUNE
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Pigs.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18Hm...
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Ah, they are here.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22Oh, well, he's here.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Oh, it's...
0:29:24 > 0:29:25It's...
0:29:27 > 0:29:28..George Orwell.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31He's got...
0:29:32 > 0:29:35..a cage full of rats round his neck.
0:29:35 > 0:29:40Now, rats - are we too unkind to rats, I wonder?
0:29:42 > 0:29:45We're definitely unkind to... You see, this...
0:29:45 > 0:29:49Now, this one...this little pig... talking about pigs,
0:29:49 > 0:29:53now that's a decent pig, isn't it?
0:29:53 > 0:29:55But, you see, he's uncertain
0:29:55 > 0:29:58whether he's going to be mean...
0:29:58 > 0:29:59or nice.
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Or proud. He's got a little bit of everything.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Malevolence, haughtiness.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10And that's nice and poetic, really.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14That is Old Major giving his speech.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21"Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?
0:30:21 > 0:30:28"Let us face it - our lives are miserable, laborious and short.
0:30:28 > 0:30:33"And the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36"we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty."
0:30:39 > 0:30:44I mean, that one, there, that figure there is very human.
0:30:44 > 0:30:45Look.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51In fact, they look like businessmen, these two.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54They're quite alarmed, watching the pigs...
0:30:56 > 0:30:58..their fellow animals, if you like,
0:30:58 > 0:31:01behaving in this hideously human way.
0:31:04 > 0:31:05It's actually quite unpleasant.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08I don't... The more I...
0:31:08 > 0:31:11the more we chat about it,
0:31:11 > 0:31:14the more I think we are...
0:31:14 > 0:31:16we're doomed.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34I mean, I've just been doing a book on Critical Critters,
0:31:34 > 0:31:36how awful we are to them.
0:31:38 > 0:31:39We're the...
0:31:43 > 0:31:46We're the, er...
0:31:46 > 0:31:47beasts, really.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Is it fun, I wonder?
0:31:53 > 0:31:54To kill things?
0:31:54 > 0:31:58Pigs are greedy, they snaffle away at it,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01and go for anything and devour it.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05They make pigs of themselves, and that's what we call them, you see.
0:32:05 > 0:32:10We think they're horrible things, but they are most intelligent,
0:32:10 > 0:32:12therefore most scheming.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14Manipulators -
0:32:14 > 0:32:18and we imbue the pig with that power.
0:32:19 > 0:32:24So I think that's something we... decided this morning.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28We don't like human beings much, do we?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31BLOWS
0:32:34 > 0:32:35Interesting.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43They're better than we ever might have thought possible...
0:32:44 > 0:32:46..and we eat the damn things.
0:32:48 > 0:32:49What a shame.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Fat bastard.
0:32:58 > 0:33:03"Apparently I'm being fattened up for some important occasion.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05"How about you?"
0:33:05 > 0:33:06HE CHUCKLES
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Pig in the shit. There we are. That's...
0:33:08 > 0:33:12and is it in his own, or is it in someone else's?
0:33:19 > 0:33:23"Is it not crystal clear that all the evils that are visited upon us
0:33:23 > 0:33:27"are the evils of human beings?
0:33:27 > 0:33:30"Man is our worst enemy.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36"Get rid of man and we will be free.
0:33:38 > 0:33:45"And we can live life as we want to live it."
0:33:45 > 0:33:48PIGS SNORT
0:34:01 > 0:34:05A short digression on the pig, or Why Heaven Hates Ham.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10The oldest and most tenacious
0:34:10 > 0:34:14of all fetishes is the hatred, and even fear, of the pig.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16It emerged in primitive Judaea
0:34:16 > 0:34:17and was for centuries one of the ways -
0:34:17 > 0:34:19the other being circumcision -
0:34:19 > 0:34:22by which Jews could be distinguished.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Even though Sura 5, verse 60 of the Koran
0:34:25 > 0:34:29condemns particularly Jews, but also other unbelievers,
0:34:29 > 0:34:31as having been turned into pigs and monkeys,
0:34:31 > 0:34:35a very intense theme in recent Salafist Muslim preaching,
0:34:35 > 0:34:37and the Koran describes the flesh of swine
0:34:37 > 0:34:39as unclean or even abominable,
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Muslims appear to see nothing ironic
0:34:41 > 0:34:44in the adoption of this uniquely Jewish taboo.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46Real horror of the porcine
0:34:46 > 0:34:48is manifest all over the Islamic world.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51According to many ancient authorities,
0:34:51 > 0:34:53the attitude of early Semites to swine
0:34:53 > 0:34:55was one of reverence as much as disgust.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56The eating of pig flesh
0:34:56 > 0:34:58was considered as something special,
0:34:58 > 0:35:01even privileged and ritualistic.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03This mad confusion between the sacred and the profane
0:35:03 > 0:35:06is found in all faiths at all times.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10The simultaneous attraction and repulsion derived
0:35:10 > 0:35:11from an anthropomorphic root.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15The look of the pig and the taste of the pig
0:35:15 > 0:35:17and the dying yells of the pig
0:35:17 > 0:35:19and the evident intelligence of the pig
0:35:19 > 0:35:22were too uncomfortably reminiscent of the human.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26Porcophobia and porcophilia
0:35:26 > 0:35:29thus probably originated in a night-time of human sacrifice
0:35:29 > 0:35:30and even cannibalism,
0:35:30 > 0:35:33at which the holy texts often do more than hint.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38Nothing optional, from homosexuality to adultery,
0:35:38 > 0:35:41is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting
0:35:41 > 0:35:43and exact the fierce punishments
0:35:43 > 0:35:46have a repressed desire to participate.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48As Shakespeare put it in King Lear,
0:35:48 > 0:35:51"The policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her
0:35:51 > 0:35:55"for the very offence for which he plies the lash."
0:36:58 > 0:37:01GENTLE GRUNTING
0:37:01 > 0:37:02Good girl.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23Hey, baby.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39She usually wakes up first
0:37:39 > 0:37:43and then she hangs out in the bed for a little while.
0:37:43 > 0:37:48- Just like us.- Making all these sounds, kind of like how people do -
0:37:48 > 0:37:50and then, eventually, if one of us gets up,
0:37:50 > 0:37:53then she'll run out and probably follow us.
0:37:55 > 0:37:56There she goes.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00TROTTERS CLATTER
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Coco, come and get some food.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12So then we give her her breakfast,
0:38:12 > 0:38:17and then she usually eats that for a little while and then walks around.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20Sometimes she'll try to get back into bed.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Sometimes we let her, sometimes we don't let her.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29She really feels like any other pet to us.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31It feels totally normal.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34She's a cuddler. Like, she has to be either
0:38:34 > 0:38:37right along your leg or in between your legs
0:38:37 > 0:38:41- of right up in your face. - I think she's like having a dog,
0:38:41 > 0:38:45- it's exactly like having a dog that loves to cuddle...- Yeah.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47..but she's a pig -
0:38:47 > 0:38:50and when people on the street ask where she sleeps,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53and we tell them... "Mm... She sleeps in our bed!"
0:38:53 > 0:38:54They're like, "What?!"
0:38:54 > 0:38:56They think it's crazy.
0:38:58 > 0:38:59She gets really upset
0:38:59 > 0:39:02if there's a night where she doesn't sleep in here,
0:39:02 > 0:39:03and it's so loud.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09She'll make little noises, like, "Beep, beep, beep."
0:39:09 > 0:39:11I don't know how to explain it -
0:39:11 > 0:39:14but it's like, they're small and high-pitched
0:39:14 > 0:39:16and they're not, like, scary or anything,
0:39:16 > 0:39:20and I feel like that's her talking to you, like saying hi.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Like, if I get really low and she kisses my face,
0:39:23 > 0:39:25she'll make those noises -
0:39:25 > 0:39:28and then, if she wants something, like she wants to go to bed...
0:39:28 > 0:39:32- Deep grunt.- ..it's like very deep, loud grunts that are like...
0:39:32 > 0:39:35- Mmmgh!- Urggghh! ..and they just get super deep.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39When we had Penny, which was our first pig,
0:39:39 > 0:39:41she would come to school every day with me.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46This was Penny, she had a lot more pink in her...
0:39:46 > 0:39:48but you can almost even see there
0:39:48 > 0:39:52- how she's enjoying getting her picture taken.- Yeah.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54- Right? Much different. - She was little in that picture.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57She didn't really look like that at the end of her life.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02One morning she had a seizure and a stroke
0:40:02 > 0:40:05- and we rushed her to the animal hospital, but...- It was too late.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08It was too late, and she passed away.
0:40:08 > 0:40:13It was January 2nd, cos I remember it was right after New Year's.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15I'd already been at school
0:40:15 > 0:40:18and Jen called me during my first period and told me.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23In the beginning it was impossible to talk about,
0:40:23 > 0:40:27but I think we've talked about it, like, thousands of times,
0:40:27 > 0:40:29so it's become easier.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32You know, I had to tell my entire school of 300 kids
0:40:32 > 0:40:34what happened to her.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39Penny was great. Penny was our first pet.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45We talked a long time about getting a dog...
0:40:45 > 0:40:46COCO SNORTS
0:40:46 > 0:40:50- Where are you going? - Oh, now she might come up there.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52..and we were travelling in South-East Asia
0:40:52 > 0:40:54for a long period of time,
0:40:54 > 0:40:56and we could see how there were other animals
0:40:56 > 0:40:59that had really deep connections to people.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Want me to move this?
0:41:01 > 0:41:03SHE SNORTS
0:41:04 > 0:41:07I feel like she can tell when I'm sad or when I'm sick.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09I find her super comforting.
0:41:10 > 0:41:11COCO GRUNTS
0:41:11 > 0:41:12Sorry.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Come here.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18If we lived in, like, a bigger house,
0:41:18 > 0:41:20we wouldn't let her have run of the whole house,
0:41:20 > 0:41:24but because we live in just like a one-room apartment,
0:41:24 > 0:41:27it's not that big compared to, like, the size of her original pen.
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Is Coco ready?
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Coco, spin.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Good girl. Treat!
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Coco, jump.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41Good girl. Treat!
0:41:41 > 0:41:43Coco, shake.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Oh, you're a good girl. Treat.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51It takes like maybe a day if you wanted to really teach her -
0:41:51 > 0:41:54and you just have to do it like a bunch of times in a row
0:41:54 > 0:41:57and to reinforce with a little piece of food.
0:41:57 > 0:41:58That's enough -
0:41:58 > 0:42:01three tricks is good enough for this pig.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08"Tears ran down her face as she took hold of the axe
0:42:08 > 0:42:11"and tried to pull it out of her father's hands.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13"'Fern,' said Mr Arable,
0:42:13 > 0:42:17"'I know more about raising a litter of pigs than you do.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20"'A weakling makes trouble. Now run along.'
0:42:20 > 0:42:23"'But it's unfair,' cried Fern.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26"'The pig couldn't help being born small, could it?'
0:42:26 > 0:42:30"'If I had been born very small at birth, would you have killed me?'
0:42:30 > 0:42:34"Mr Arable smiled, 'Certainly not,'
0:42:34 > 0:42:37"he said, looking down at his daughter with love.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39"'But this is different.
0:42:39 > 0:42:44"'A little girl is one thing and a little runty pig is another.'"
0:42:47 > 0:42:49SHE SNIFFLES
0:42:51 > 0:42:53And I think that really happens...
0:42:55 > 0:42:57..and it's just...
0:42:57 > 0:42:59I think I just think about it being Coco.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01It's sad.
0:43:06 > 0:43:10- You've got the Cheerios?- Yeah. You have the Cheerios, I have a bag.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Oh, I do have the Cheerios.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13Come on, Coco.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Come on.
0:43:17 > 0:43:18Good job!
0:43:23 > 0:43:26# This little piggy went to market
0:43:26 > 0:43:29# This little piggy stayed home
0:43:29 > 0:43:33# This little piggy had roast beef
0:43:33 > 0:43:36# This little piggy had none
0:43:36 > 0:43:40# And this little piggy went wee wee wee
0:43:40 > 0:43:43# Wee wee, all the way home
0:43:43 > 0:43:47# So if you're ever sad If you're ever alone
0:43:47 > 0:43:51# You can sing this little piggy song. #
0:44:09 > 0:44:1211 weeks old and...you're back.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17As you can see, it's been raining a bit.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22I'm putting it on now, getting on for 35 kilos.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31We had a real drama last night.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34Four friends decided they didn't trust the men here.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36They ran away.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40After trying a few times, my friends worked out
0:44:40 > 0:44:43that if they charged those horrid wires together,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45they wouldn't hurt themselves.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49God knows how they'll survive out there.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28STRONG SOUTHERN AMERICAN ACCENT:
0:45:32 > 0:45:34Basically, there was a lot of people around
0:45:34 > 0:45:37that had pretty large hog farms at times,
0:45:37 > 0:45:39and they used electric fence to keep them up.
0:45:39 > 0:45:44Well, the electric fence goes down, they go through the fence.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Then they stay out there long enough
0:45:46 > 0:45:50and they go from domesticated back to wild.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52It's not just one person's problem any more,
0:45:52 > 0:45:54it's become everybody's problem...
0:45:55 > 0:45:57..and believe it or not,
0:45:57 > 0:46:00some of them are actually vicious enough that they will attack you.
0:46:02 > 0:46:08You have to kill 70% of your wild hog population on your place
0:46:08 > 0:46:12each year just to maintain the same amount of numbers that you got.
0:46:12 > 0:46:16So if we only kill 20%, that means the hog population
0:46:16 > 0:46:19on our place is increasing drastically every year.
0:46:21 > 0:46:26They're used to coming up where... close to homes and stuff,
0:46:26 > 0:46:29where people actually have barns and have feed.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31They'll come inside barns and stuff
0:46:31 > 0:46:34and actually eat the high-protein feeds.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39And that helps get them larger.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Can I have everybody's attention?
0:46:42 > 0:46:44We're going to say a prayer
0:46:44 > 0:46:47and we're going to let everybody get started on this food
0:46:47 > 0:46:50cos I know everybody's just dying to jump in to all this good food.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52If y'all will bow with me.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57Heavenly Father, we thank the for this wonderful day you've allowed us
0:46:57 > 0:47:01to gather together, in this holiday season,
0:47:01 > 0:47:04that we can get together and give thanks to you
0:47:04 > 0:47:08and for all the many blessings that you bestow on each one of us.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11Just ask that you would bless this food now to nourish our body
0:47:11 > 0:47:12and our body is thy service.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15These things we ask in Christ's name. Amen.
0:47:15 > 0:47:16Amen.
0:47:16 > 0:47:20OK, y'all can form two lines down this buffet
0:47:20 > 0:47:22and just help yourself.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25CRICKETS CHIRRUP
0:47:49 > 0:47:51GUNSHOT
0:47:53 > 0:47:54GUNSHOTS
0:48:13 > 0:48:16Until we come up with something better than what we're doing here,
0:48:16 > 0:48:19we're not going to get rid of 'em -
0:48:19 > 0:48:23and we're doing what we're doing now, it's just an effort,
0:48:23 > 0:48:27we're not really accomplishing a whole lot, but we are getting a few.
0:48:58 > 0:48:59DOG BARKS
0:50:14 > 0:50:16Back up, Rooster, back up.
0:50:16 > 0:50:21Danny's a friend of ours. We've known him for several years now...
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Back up, I said.
0:50:24 > 0:50:28..and any time we have a problem, Danny's the man we call.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Once you turn 'em loose...
0:50:36 > 0:50:40..they get in his hayfields, root it up.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43We go out there and run the hogs off of them.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46To help the farmers out,
0:50:46 > 0:50:49and give us something to do, too, cos we enjoy it.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53They're one of the smartest animals in the woods.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55They're smarter than any big buck.
0:50:55 > 0:50:58The older hogs get really educated,
0:50:58 > 0:51:01they know how to get away from a dog and won't hardly go in a trap,
0:51:01 > 0:51:04so they are really hard to catch.
0:51:06 > 0:51:07She's running one.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11Hog!
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Go.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28SQUEALING
0:52:26 > 0:52:28We take life.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33We realise that it's the Lord's animal,
0:52:33 > 0:52:35but the Lord puts us over the animal,
0:52:35 > 0:52:38in charge of the animals, so we have to do that.
0:53:39 > 0:53:4116 weeks. 55 kilos.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44Almost doubled my weight in five weeks...
0:53:50 > 0:53:52..but something's up.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58Perhaps those friends who ran away were right.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02What do these men want?
0:54:08 > 0:54:09Why have they put me in here?
0:54:13 > 0:54:16GRUNTING AND SQUEALING
0:54:26 > 0:54:28Mummy? Mummy, where are you?
0:54:50 > 0:54:52"At OrganInc Farms,
0:54:52 > 0:54:56"he'd been one of the foremost architects of the Pigoon project,
0:54:56 > 0:54:59"along with a team of transplant experts
0:54:59 > 0:55:03"and a microbiologists who were splicing against infections.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13"Pigoon was only a nickname.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17"The official name was sus multiorganifier -
0:55:17 > 0:55:19"but Pigoon was what everybody said.
0:55:21 > 0:55:25"Sometimes they said OrganOink Farms, but not as often.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29"It wasn't really a farm, anyway.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32"Not like the farms in pictures.
0:55:32 > 0:55:33PIGS SQUEAL
0:55:43 > 0:55:45"The goal of the Pigoon project
0:55:45 > 0:55:49"was to grow an assortment of foolproof human tissue organs
0:55:49 > 0:55:52"in a transgenic knockout pig host."
0:55:58 > 0:56:02"Organs that would transplant smoothly and avoid rejection,
0:56:02 > 0:56:05"but would also be able to fend off attacks
0:56:05 > 0:56:08"by opportunistic microbes and viruses,
0:56:08 > 0:56:11"of which there were so many more strains every year."
0:56:21 > 0:56:25In our pig bio banks, basically we have relatively few animals,
0:56:25 > 0:56:28genetically modified, plus controls,
0:56:28 > 0:56:30but we have the whole tissue spectrum.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53So, my name is Eckhard Wolf.
0:56:53 > 0:56:57I'm a professor of animal genetics and biotechnology
0:56:57 > 0:56:58at the University of Munich,
0:56:58 > 0:57:04and my topic is basically genetic engineering of pigs
0:57:04 > 0:57:08for xenotransplantation, and also as models for human diseases.
0:57:11 > 0:57:15I'm... I'm just a cardiac surgeon.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20We transplant pigs' hearts into baboons.
0:57:32 > 0:57:36Of course, it would be much easier to use baboons as donors for humans,
0:57:36 > 0:57:40but the small non-human primates would not fit
0:57:40 > 0:57:42regarding their organ size -
0:57:42 > 0:57:44and for the larger ones,
0:57:44 > 0:57:48it's very difficult to breed them, to maintain them,
0:57:48 > 0:57:51and I think there would also be major ethical considerations
0:57:51 > 0:57:53if we used non-human primates.
0:57:56 > 0:57:57On the other hand, we can, nowadays,
0:57:57 > 0:58:01with the modern techniques of genetic engineering,
0:58:01 > 0:58:03adapt the pig as a donor.
0:58:10 > 0:58:11Pigs are very similar
0:58:11 > 0:58:15with respect to their anatomy and physiology to humans.
0:58:18 > 0:58:21The whole digestive tract is very similar.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24They have about the same size.
0:58:26 > 0:58:29The skin, for instance, is extremely similar to human skin.
0:58:39 > 0:58:40I'll just get changed.
0:58:43 > 0:58:48Within the next four years, our aim is to produce baboons
0:58:48 > 0:58:55with pig's hearts and they live well for three months.
0:58:55 > 0:58:59So, up till now, it is a big hurdle.
0:59:01 > 0:59:04These are my lucky shoes.
0:59:05 > 0:59:06Green.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37It's the right and the left ventricle.
0:59:42 > 0:59:44- OK, the cannula.- Cannula.
0:59:49 > 0:59:51That's the heart, you can see.
0:59:57 > 1:00:01The heart looks basically similar to a human heart.
1:00:01 > 1:00:03You can't distinguish.
1:00:03 > 1:00:06It's pink, has the same valves.
1:01:09 > 1:01:12To use a species which you know very well,
1:01:12 > 1:01:17pigs that we eat in Germany, I think 50 million pigs -
1:01:17 > 1:01:20but you can't say, because you're eating pigs,
1:01:20 > 1:01:23you can grow pigs for transplantation purposes.
1:01:23 > 1:01:26That's a big, ethical difference.
1:01:26 > 1:01:28That would scream, ja?
1:01:28 > 1:01:32And, for me, it's strange, but it is so.
1:01:37 > 1:01:40You can't do everything that you think you can do.
1:01:40 > 1:01:42It is an ethical problem.
1:02:54 > 1:02:57I hate the word "humanised" organs...
1:02:57 > 1:02:59because they are not humanised.
1:03:01 > 1:03:04For me, the brain is the most important thing.
1:03:04 > 1:03:08The brain is human, the brain is a pig -
1:03:08 > 1:03:11and you don't interfere with that.
1:03:11 > 1:03:15So you just interfere with the body.
1:03:15 > 1:03:19As a heart surgeon, I exchange the pump,
1:03:19 > 1:03:22the heart is a pump, nothing else.
1:03:23 > 1:03:29- When you say the word heart to me, I don't think of a pump.- Yeah.
1:03:29 > 1:03:33- I think of poetry and life. - Yes, well, that's wrong.
1:03:33 > 1:03:37That's wrong. You should talk about the brain -
1:03:37 > 1:03:41and so, "My brain is going crazy," or something like that,
1:03:41 > 1:03:43not, "My heart is going crazy" -
1:03:43 > 1:03:45but I'm aware of the literature, of course.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52Beats very well.
1:04:05 > 1:04:10Some people would say it's an exotic work, it's a dangerous work,
1:04:10 > 1:04:15it's like Frankenstein, but that's not true.
1:04:17 > 1:04:22It's a nice way to solve a big problem of organ shortage.
1:04:25 > 1:04:3110,000 sick persons
1:04:31 > 1:04:34are waiting for a transplant in Germany,
1:04:34 > 1:04:38and only 800 are done right now.
1:04:38 > 1:04:43So... It's not a discrepancy, it's a disaster.
1:04:43 > 1:04:46MONITOR BEEPS
1:04:54 > 1:04:56CONTINUOUS TONE
1:04:59 > 1:05:02MUSIC: Old MacDonald Had A Farm
1:05:18 > 1:05:22That day, as Farmer Robb drove her on the his way,
1:05:22 > 1:05:26our clever pig wondered where to, and why.
1:05:26 > 1:05:29She somehow knew she was off to die.
1:05:31 > 1:05:34She thought pigs can live 20 years or more -
1:05:34 > 1:05:38but when the trailer turned and hit the motorway,
1:05:38 > 1:05:41the truth dawned bright and sure.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44It was not her mind that they cared for.
1:05:49 > 1:05:53Hog roasts and chops are what you crave,
1:05:53 > 1:05:56with nice, thick gravy and apple sauce.
1:05:56 > 1:05:59Spare ribs for Sunday barbecues.
1:05:59 > 1:06:02Sausages and mash or bacon butties.
1:06:05 > 1:06:07Cured or smoked?
1:06:07 > 1:06:09Red sauce or brown?
1:06:09 > 1:06:11What is your taste?
1:06:11 > 1:06:14What is your choice?
1:06:14 > 1:06:15Prime cuts...
1:06:17 > 1:06:20..or just a bag of scratchings in the pub?
1:06:39 > 1:06:40On much of the planet,
1:06:40 > 1:06:44most meat animals get antibiotics every day of their lives.
1:06:44 > 1:06:46Not to cure illnesses,
1:06:46 > 1:06:49but to fatten them up and to protect them
1:06:49 > 1:06:53against the factory farm conditions they are raised in.
1:06:53 > 1:06:55In the United States,
1:06:55 > 1:07:02possibly 80% of the antibiotics sold every year go to farm animals,
1:07:02 > 1:07:03not to humans,
1:07:03 > 1:07:07creating resistant bacteria that move off the farm
1:07:07 > 1:07:12in water, in dust, in the meat the animals become.
1:07:12 > 1:07:17We stand today on the threshold of the post-antibiotic era,
1:07:17 > 1:07:22in the earliest days of a time when simple infections
1:07:22 > 1:07:25will kill people once again.
1:07:25 > 1:07:28CLOCK BEEPS
1:09:08 > 1:09:12PIGS SQUEAL
1:09:30 > 1:09:33PIGS SQUEAL
1:09:33 > 1:09:36SQUEALING STOPS
1:11:32 > 1:11:34SHEEP BLEAT
1:12:07 > 1:12:09We grow so fast.
1:12:09 > 1:12:11Six months old and hitting puberty.
1:12:13 > 1:12:16We consume all the time.
1:12:16 > 1:12:18Whenever we want to -
1:12:18 > 1:12:20and, being greedy...
1:12:22 > 1:12:24..we eat like pigs.
1:12:38 > 1:12:41A big nose can draw in a volume of air
1:12:41 > 1:12:43and I can distinguish odours like...
1:12:43 > 1:12:49People always say, "How did you stand it?" I never noticed it.
1:12:49 > 1:12:52I really never noticed the odour of decomposition.
1:12:59 > 1:13:03And I had my 35mm camera calibrated
1:13:03 > 1:13:06so it was on focus on the pig in the ground.
1:13:06 > 1:13:08BUZZING
1:13:12 > 1:13:16Once people find you're working with decomposing pigs,
1:13:16 > 1:13:19they automatically think that you're using it
1:13:19 > 1:13:22to estimate the time of a human...
1:13:23 > 1:13:25..cos the skin and everything
1:13:25 > 1:13:28is closer to a human than anything else.
1:13:30 > 1:13:32The same insects that decompose humans
1:13:32 > 1:13:35also decompose pigs.
1:13:35 > 1:13:36You know, most of them do.
1:13:41 > 1:13:45As I used to say, after six days, all you had was a few bones
1:13:45 > 1:13:48and a hank of hair and a snout or two.
1:13:48 > 1:13:50You know, you didn't have much.
1:15:41 > 1:15:43SHEEP BLEAT
1:16:29 > 1:16:31GUNSHOT