But the cloven hooves and porcine eyes (if not the long, marsupial tail where a curly flourish would have been more accurate) make the artist's intention clear.
Damning Miliband with porcine satire seems – like the Daily Mail's exposé of his "Britain-hating" Jewish émigré father – to radiate some nasty connotations.
The public received his bid with a dose of scepticism and it did not deter the porcine masks and costumes from rallying.
However, your porcine piece could easily apply to another animal: the goat.
That equates to between a fifth and a third of the world's entire trade in corn today.As demand for pork rises, China's porcine empire is sure to expandAs a result, land use is changing drastically on the other side of the world.
How tempting, then, to boost legislators' chances of re-election with a healthy helping of porcine products.Virtually every major bill is larded with spending projects whose primary purpose is political.
After years of paid porcine sex, the narrator turns slowly into a pig, with covert help from an African witchdoctor.
All but Poland miss the test for low inflation by a mile.In this section A decade in the sun Faces at the window Reprints Related items Baltic co-operation: All at seaJun 5th 2008 The European Central Bank: Ten years on, beware a porcine plotJun 5th 2008 The ECB at ten: A decade in the sunJun 5th 2008This could prove a barrier to euro entry.
As demand for pork rises, China's porcine empire is sure to expand.Pigging outFeeding the pigs is not farmers' only concern.
Some had received grafts of porcine skin for burns; others, "islet" cells from pig pancreases, to deal with their diabetes.
Farmers responded to low pork prices last year by breeding fewer pigs, some of which have since fallen victim to porcine diarrhoea.
