History Main / FedToPigs

* How the killer disposes of the bodies in the ''Series/FatherBrown'' episode "The Shadow of the Scaffold". This is discovered when a finger bone with a ring on it is discovered in the stomach of a pig being prepared for tripe.

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* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal who prepares various dishes out of his victims including sausages which Will Graham's dogs are rather found.

* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}: Hannibal Lecter is a cannibal who prepares various dishes out of his victims including sausages which Will Graham's dogs are rather found.

* On one path in ''VideoGame/CriticalPoint'', you can see a flashback of the hero suffering ColdBloodedTorture in which he had his right arm hacked off piece by piece, starting with the fingers. Each piece was tossed to a nearby pig after being cut off.

It's most likely TruthInTelevision. Pigs are omnivores rather than herbivores, meaning that they do indeed eat meat if they are able to come by it. Fact of the matter is, pigs can eat almost anything they can chew. No matter how special and worthy of respect we consider the corpses of us humans, it's the same as any other carcass to a pig, meaning that they ''will'' chow down on it.

* ''Film/TheRunningGrave'': Daiyu Wace is believed to have drowned while swimming on the beach, her body swept away to sea and lost forever, but this was her real fate. She was murdered on Chapman Farm and fed to the pigs.

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'''This is a DeathTrope; spoilers ahoy.'''

* In ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' the villain doesn't like how one of the male hostages is looking at him and orders for him to be put in with the pigs. Later when the rescuers arrive they see his body tied to a pole having already died from blood loss after the pigs chewed off his feet and lower legs.

Subtrope of DisposingOfABody, EatTheEvidence, and FedToTheBeast. It's also a DarkerAndEdgier subtrope of GluttonousPig. See also ThisBearWasFramed, when the killer tries to make the murder look like an animal attack.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Spoofed in "Apple Thief". When Finn, Jake, and [[CoolOldLady Tree Trunks]] are captured by thieves, they're threatened to be fed to the pig -- who, like many animal characters on the show, is [[TalkingAnimal fully sentient]]. [[spoiler:After all four escape, he even hooks up with, and eventually gets married to, Tree Trunks.]]

* Mentioned in the first chapter of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The {{yakuza}} keeping Denji as a debt slave tell him "Run away and you're pig slop!" Though a later chapters shows they'd actually throw their debtors to ''zombies''.

A pig's body is also quite up to the task of digesting almost every part of the human body. They can not only chew and digest human flesh, they can also readily digest human bone without excreting a noticeable trace of it. Of course, they can't quite chew the skulls and longer bones that humans have, but if our killer has enough determination, they can just break said bones into smaller, more chewable pieces. They also can't digest human hair and teeth, but it should be a simple matter to shave your victims' heads and pull out their teeth before chow time, right?

* Taken UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'', as not only did [[spoiler: Oswald Mandus feed disobedient orphans to his pigs, but the Engineer has his cannibalistic pigmen unleashed on the entire East End of London.]]

Subtrope of DisposingOfABody, EatTheEvidence, and FedToTheBeast. It's also a DarkerAndEdgier subtrope of GluttonousPig.

->''"I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as a pig'.''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Critters", this trope is combined with FedToTheBeast. Rustic villain [[SouthernFriedGenius Farmer Brown]] tells his daughter to get rid of Bullock this way; while he's still alive. The pig-pen only has ''one'' pig in it, but it's a genetically mutated monster (likely bred to be ''carnivorous'' rather than omnivorous), much like the rest of Brown's livestock. (Fortunately for Bullock, Batman shows up in time.)

Not only is this trope plausible, it's also downright horrific because it not only involves an invocation of humanity's PrimalFear of being eaten, but also the chilling factor of role reversal. Outside the pigpen, you eat pig (if you don't have dietary or religious restrictions that include pork, or dislike the taste). Inside our killer's pigpen, however, [[RussianReversal pigs eat]] [[FoodEatsYou you]]. Also, there's the possibility that someone will eat the pigs that have been eating humans, which isn't the same as ImAHumanitarian, but still {{squick}}y in its own way. Also, this trope can also be applied when some FatBastard gets eaten by pigs, in some kind of PoeticJustice.

* Baby farmer and serial killer [[https://byteclay.com/polands-marianna-skublinska-killed-babies-for-a-fee-but-never-convicted/ Marianna Skublińska]] supposedly disposed of several of the infants left in her care by throwing them to her pigs, which she allegedly boasted were "the fattest in the district."

* American serial killer [[http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/05/oregon_pig_farmer_charged_with.html Susan Monica]] fed her two known victims to her pigs.