[Goanet] Pigs...in the village

2006-06-12 Thread domnic fernandes
et@goanet.org Subject : Re: [Goanet] Pigs... in the village Very interesting post Fred .. I can clearly see signs of progress in Goa. Not long ago, when I was growing up in Goa, people in my village would beckon their pigs with the old fashioned verbal calls ... "Ghe yo G

Re: [Goanet] Pigs... in the village

2006-06-12 Thread Jim Fernandes
Very interesting post Fred .. I can clearly see signs of progress in Goa. Not long ago, when I was growing up in Goa, people in my village would beckon their pigs with the old fashioned verbal calls ... "Ghe yo Ghe yo " at feed time. Does anybody remember that? In today's world, Go

[Goanet] Pigs... in the village

2006-06-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
When you talk to others from a diverse background, you often get another perspective into how things work. A villager, my neighbour Magdeline, today mentioned that all her pigs had died recently. Was this, I wondered, a kind of disease that had hit the region without it getting the attention deser