Is There A Pig In The Kitchen?

Now lets be honest here pigs are not used only for meat, they can be found in everyday products that we use around the house and we don't even know it! So to answer your question about there being a pig in the kitchen: almost every product that we use has some kind of animal in it.  Check out the following posters that illustrate some of these items:

Pigs hearts are also very useful to humans.  Currently, the technology exists to enable doctors to replace a patient's heart valves with a new one that has been constructed from tissue that came from a pig's heart valve.  This is due to the fact that much a a pig's anatomy and physiology is very close to that of humans.

There are many other advancements in medical technology to help humans by using products from pigs:

**One important note is that these products are used from animals who are already being used in industry.  This means that the pigs are not being raised in laboratories and having numerous tests being performed.!