The whole idea makes me puke
Like the other images I’ve analyzed on my blog, this nativity scene, made from assorted pieces of dead pigs, normalizes animal cruelty by making light of it, and hides the violence we commit against animals.
Nativity scenes are used to celebrate the birth of the nonviolent Jesus Christ. And this holiday season, it’s common to wish for “peace on earth,” a phrase from the Bible. But instead of celebrating compassion for all earthlings, we mock the torture and murder of certain sentient beings. This is the problematic speciesist thinking that’s currently rampant in our culture: we wish for “peace on earth” while participating in animal exploitation, which not only hurts the animals, but also directly harms the environment; furthermore, practically no one would think this was funny if the scene featured parts from a cooked dog. Pigs are okay to exploit because…? Because that’s the way things are?
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Exposing the Big Game 
…am so nausated & disgusted…’course I don’t know why: so much human dreck out there re: animals that nothing should shock/horrify/sadden me anymore..and yet, it does ..(am not religious either, but holy “chit”)
Let’s not also forget the fact that Jesus was Jewish and would have found this offensive simply from the standpoint of Jewish dietary laws. Jews do not eat pork. Two things that W.A.S. Christians of all denominations tend to forget: Jesus was not a Christian and He was a Jew.
Just sick. I’m so tired of the mentality of our culture.