Devout pig eaters often challenge the admonition of non-pig-eaters, by stating that if God had not intended for the pig to be eaten He would not have created the fat, filthy fellow. Follow this line of illogic, and it will lead you to believe that anything The Supreme Being brought into existence, which is everything, is fit to be put into our mouths and ingested. It is true that many people seem to believe just that. You can find them in some of their swankiest restaurants, eating snails, ants and other "delicacies," calling them by such sophisticated names as "escargot", etc.

I have been challenged through the years by oink-ingesters who pose what they consider a logical question, to wit�if God did not intend for us to eat the pig, then why did He invent the fat little fellow? A good many of these walking garbage cans practice what they preach. At home, and in some of the swankiest restaurants, they can be found eating just about anything you can think of, and many things you would never think of as food. I will not identify them in this, a family newspaper, but you can do a little research on your own and verify what I am saying. You may begin by tracking down a delicacy known as "Mountain Oysters."

A question logically arises�why would God create, or allow the creation of�such foul creatures?

They have their purposes, which they will serve successfully if limited to that for which they were created. But, when we begin to use them in ways contrary to their purpose, we begin to create more problems than we solve. A reasonable amount of research will reveal that the swine is not an original inhabitant of the Earth, but was grafted, by Black scientists, from the cat, rat and dog. Looking down the line of time, they could see that the wickedness of a people to come would create diseases that would require a superior poison to defeat them. This grafted animal contained at least a part of the answer.

The January 14, 2002 issue of TIME magazine carried an article on Page 65 entitled "Pig Parts for People?" The subhead reads: "It won�t happen for years, but a laboratory breakthrough puts an unlimited source of organs a step closer." It predicts that, while the whole organs of pigs are rejected by the human body, heart valves and other tissues can serve to replace damaged parts of human organs. Two research teams have recently announced that they had successfully removed the pig gene responsible for the most severe form of rejection by the human body. One of the teams�PPL Therapeutics �is responsible for the 1996 cloning of Dolly, the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult animal. Dolly, incidentally, is being closely watched because, at age five-and-a-half, she has come down with arthritis�a condition which may be related to her cloning.

Despite all the hurdles, the use of animal parts�particularly those created just for that purpose �seems to be the principal part of medicine for the future.