If someone asked me to wax poetical on pigs, this article from Salon is what I'd come up with... almost to a tee, all the way down to the grandmother canning tomatoes and the fond memories of reading Little House in the Big Woods as a girl. The author describes making her own bacon and the feeling of eating food that you've made yourself from scratch. That feeling of empowerment is, I think, what will move people to a more sustainable lifestyle. Sustainability is about more than making this or that choice in the marketplace: it's about participation; it's about producing what you can and relying on those you know in order to free yourself from dependence on global supply chains and corporations.