Happy Year of the Pig!

Last Sunday began the Chinese New Year. Of course, the media, displaying their constant anti-pig bias would only cite articles claiming fortune tellers dire predictions that the "Year of Pig will bring disaster" or that "It is anticipated that there will be more international conflicts and disharmony, which will even lead to regional warfare, uprising and unrest, or the overthrow of governments in certain countries." Apparently, this is because the Year of the Pig is symbolized by fire on top of water, which is "a symbol of conflict and skirmish." Sounds fearsome!

The Chinese government has even restricted the use of pig images in advertising fearing a conflict with China's 20 million Muslims, who might be made uncomfortable by seeing these images given the Muslim ban on pigs. Even Coca-Cola bowed, changing one ad which "features a cute, Babe-like piglet braving mean city streets to get home for the Chinese New Year. But the company shot a second version using pandas to show in Muslim areas." I may be all for multiculturalism, but if seeing a little guy such as the snack food mascot shown above makes you uncomfortable and offended, well, deal. It's a tough world out there. If you are offended by the movie "Babe" there is simply nothing on the planet that won't offend you.
I hope no pig-haters did not try to Google anything on the big day and saw this just adorable logo below:
Happy searching!