Green Daily

If you've been following the news lately, you'll know that the enormous hog farms supplying our ham are bad for our health, hard on the environment, and all around gross. This is a bummer, especially if you enjoy the occasional tasty strip of scrumptious bacon.

Step 1: Shop local, and shop organic.

Step 2: Divert your attention from this depressing situation by playing Pig Blaster!

In this web-based game, you attempt to help a pig escape his barnyard incarceration. The pig is aided in this endeavor by the power of his incredibly sonorous flatulence -- an eruption that is capable of lifting him beyond the farmer's fence. But fart too hard, and your pig will soar into the clouds and out of sight. Don't far enough, on the other hand, and your porky protagonist won't make it far enough to escape. (Clearly this is a game that takes skill, virtue, maturity, and dedication -- so don't expect to master it on your first try.)

Though it's worth noting that, rewarding as it may be to liberate your hog from the confines of his pig pen, his flatulence isn't exactly wonderful for the environment. In fact, previous studies have ranked animal flatulence as a serious contributor of greenhouse gas emissions (and thus,a significant factor in global warming). Seriously -- pig farts are bad for the planet.

[via Neatorama]