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My entry in the Creative Non-fiction Contest
What The Rain Would Do



The next time you sit down to breakfast that may include sausage or bacon or when you are enjoying a nice plate of barbeque
or hog chitlins(as we call them in the South),I ask have you ever given much thought to the amount of work that goes into getting
a newborn piglet into the meal you are about to enjoy.

Well, I am going to tell you. I'm sure things are done differently now but when I was five years old my dad was offered a job with a company that had a hog farm as well as a grain company that fed these hogs as well as supplying feed to other hog farmers in the county.

Every weekday, my dad would get in his feedtruck, go to the grain house and his truck would be filled with a special blend of feed that he would distribute to each hog farm. He did this same thing several times a day for years.

On alternating weekends, he would go to the hog houses to check on the hogs. He went through each house and made sure everything was functioning properly. He also had to make sure all the hogs were doing good and that none were sick. Sometimes on the weekend, I would go with him just to have something to do. I would even go into the hog houses but the squealing noise was so loud I wouldn't stay long. Also, the smell was not very appealing and I would back away and go sit in the truck.

With that said, I am going to tell what this has to do with rain. As I stated earlier, the smell on any given day was rough on the nose,but when it rained the stench would get stirred up so bad it would make you gag. I could never understand why. The smell would be so powerful, it could reach for miles in either direction.

Most people associate rain with cleaning things off but me most times when it rains, I think about my dad and what he and the other men who worked there had to endure so people could enjoy their favorite pork dish.


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