And bigger farms, says the anti-porker brigade, mean bigger smells: Danish pig slurry would fill 90, 000 average-size swimming pools a year.

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McDull himself is a pug-nosed little porker with a big brown eye, a feature inherited from his mother, and he sounds rather like a Cantonese version of Babe, the movie pig who thought he was a sheep-dog.

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