I'm thinking of bringing a pig (some that will not grow very big) to live with us as a pet just to discourage my boyfriend from thinking of pig as a food. Is that really necessary!? Only if some animal is not a pet it is not food anymore. It does not make sense to me at all. We do not need animal as a food, being a pet or not. The way that humans treat animals (in particular in those big farms) is a mirror to ourselves.