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Letter: Letter

Published 16 November 1996

From S. T. Dobbs

Hutson is clearly a very rational guy. He eloquently dismantles the popular myth that pigs are intelligent animals.

I have to admit that I have long suspected that I am not particularly bright, but now it has been confirmed scientifically. If you tried to strap me into an apparatus to force my mouth to water when a bell rang, I must confess I’d scream blue murder. I am usually ravenously hungry and, to boot, if I don’t wash I start to smell. Proof then—I must be a pig.

Market Harborough, Leicestershire

Issue no. 2056 published 16 November 1996

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