Torrent of Torpedoes

There is an interesting use of language in the latest issue of Harpers Magazine, rather striking really, regarding the importance of Artificial Insemination (AI) in the factory farms of the pork industry. The approximate quote goes something like: AI has had much to do with turning hogs from "affable, potbellied forest dwellers into panicky, torpedo-shaped clones who can no longer live out-of-doors."

Nothing worse than cornering a panicky, torpedo-shaped clone, I suppose....

I take that back. It would be worse to corner one hundred panicky, torpedo-shaped clones.