Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants
“I am vegetarian. … I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.”
" A welcome in the hillside http://www.camdennewjournal.com/welcome-hillside", interview with John Gulliver, in Camden New Journal (13 August 2015). <br class="br">2000s
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March 4, 1942
“ Mike White's 'Veggie Testimonial' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF8PJJFgg4E”, ad for PETA (30 July 2009).
“My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap”
Spike Hawkins (1943) British writer
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
" Brigitte Bardot: 'I became aware of the horror of factory farming http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=51041&lang=en". Interview for Primorske novice (November 2009) as reported by European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA) website
“Pig sit still in the strainer
I must have my Pig tea”
Spike Hawkins (1943) British writer
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
“I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.”
Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Context: “Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king — every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once,” he added, “you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
“Once, I hoped for a glorious destiny,” Taran went on, smiling at his own memory. “That dream has vanished with my childhood; and though a pleasant dream it was fit only for a child. I am well content as an Assistant Pig-Keeper.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Context: [Christopher Soames, Churchill's future son-in-law, remembered] Churchill showing him around Chartwell Farm [around 1946]. When they came to the piggery Churchill scratched one of the pigs and said: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Mike Ness (1962) Musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist
"Mike Ness: 'Meat's Not Green'", video interview with peta2 (28 April 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dg73SRrNjA.