cute lil piggies

WHAT ABOUT THE COWS??????????????

Aww what a cute little pig!!

So how will it cost me to Fed Ex you down Perez?

do NOT support this charity. So they raise the pigs as pets, kinda like a dog, love them, take care of them, earn the pigs respect and trust and then sell them, for what? To be killed and slaughtered? Very nice. They couldn't find another way to help these poor people then to make an innocent animal their scapegoat? You, Perez, should be ashamed of yourself to post this crap on your site. Do you realize that pigs are just as intelligent as dogs and make equally great companions as dogs. This charity is sick and I will do whatever I need to do to discredit it.

Find another way, raise crops or something else. Beans are a good source of protein. How could these people live with themselves when they sell those poor little pigs to be killed. It takes a "special" kind of person to be able to do that. They are all heartless greedy people masquerading as a charity but are really just animal killers when you come down to the bottom line.

Raise them and then kill them. Sweet. They should try growing peanuts and soybeans, an excellent source of protein without the trauma of the slaughter for the children. Duh.

SO do they also get to watch when daddy slaughters their piggies for money? Just askin'

I've worked with this charity and know about Heifer International too - pigs are a great way to help starving people survive. Kudos to Pigs for Kids for making a difference and helping these kids go to school.

SEND PIGEZ to a starving child!

Ask money to the Mormons, they got it !

Didn't your Mom start the raising pigs program after you were born?

Re: FS – Clearly, you are the ignorant one. Reading may do you some good little Canadian girl. These pigs aren't pets, they're farm animals in a 3rd world country. They're not fed PetCo packaged foods, taught to do tricks and sleep at the end of the bed. They are raised, organically mind you, on rural family farms as livestock. I understand if you have a problem with corporate conglomerate industrial sized "farms" that pump out meat as a product, but family farms! That's moronic. I'd love to see you tell the poor folk in Nicaragua to eat vegetarian. Pigs are very inexpensive to raise, mainly because they feed on rotted food and don't take away the family's supply. Crops you say!? Yeah, because all the poor people in 3rd world countries are mass land owners and can afford seed, farming equipment, and labor. Not to mention that this ingenious project is not about pigs, it's about the education of children that would otherwise never go to school. Vital education that will allow Nicaraguans to come up with their own economically sustainable projects, or even their own educated opinions on whether eating meat is morally permissible. It takes a "special" person like yourself to not educate themselves on the topic their speaking about.

Re: DrReese – Thank you for being so intelligent and explaining this so well.

Nice. Get these poor little kids attached to the pig, only to have it grow up and have daddy make bacon out of it.
Uh-huh, not cool.
Maybe I should just support Paris and her foundation for helping drunken elephants instead.

We should be careful when trying to uplift one oppressed group on the back of another oppressed group.

Although I am a vegetarian I do support this charity. I travelled to Nicaragua in May of 2008 and have been changed ever since. Not everyone in the world, especially those who live in a 3rd world nation, subscribe to the dietary lifestyles that many people, like myself, do. I do not believe in the disgusting ways in which major companies treat and kill their animals, but the people of Nicaragua and the people in the villages like Wasala, or Sutiava and Leon (which i visited) need to make an income any way possible to allow their children a fair education. Not every nation and not every child in the world have education, and people have to take notice that things must be done to begin the process of giving children this education. So, allow these families to raise the pigs, sell them, and allow these kids an education. Don't be so mindless and believe everyone needs to follow your dietary restrictions. Don't be so foolish and stop putting a pig in front of the well being of a child. If your child was starving and had no schooling I think you would sell a pig. Until you understand the other side, don't go bashing this charity that is actually allowing a movement to occur in a nation you probably have never been to.