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    Hog in the limelight

    Dec 17, 2020 3 minutes

    The word ‘pig’ is hurled as an insult. You’re a greedy pig or a dirty pig, never a clever pig or a handsome pig. Pig is a derogatory name for a police officer or the worst of male chauvinists. Selfish drivers are road hogs. An untrustworthy, unfaithful or unkind person is a swine. It’s really not fair. Pigs are thought of as smelly, dirty and stupid but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

    Pigs are clean. Forget the stereotypes. Given enough space, they will always avoid soiling the

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