It’s human meat.

The Richard Scarry universe is actually set in a twisted dystopian future where animals gained sentience and overthrew the humans. We are the farm animals. I won’t go into where their milk comes from.

It’s a comment on humans exploiting each other to the maximum for personal gain.

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Hogs eating their own? Don’t matter to the hog. - Billy the kid

capitalism, baby!

I see so many bar and grills where the mascot is a pig wearing a chef’s hat.

Soylent green is people!

It’s a Halal and Kosher butcher shop!

Ever notice how there is only one crab in all of bikini bottom, and he’s known for serving crabby patties?

You can see it in his eyes. He’s seen things…

Swiney Tod

Sweeney Hogg

“Hey Bob! Were you and the wife able to work things out?”

Richard Scarry, a name and a guarantee (if you start thinking too much)

Brick Top: You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are ya?

Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then 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”.