First thing came to my mind:
RIVERTON, Ore. -- Authorities are still trying to determine what happened to a farmer who apparently was eaten by his hogs.
Whether the animals attacked him or he collapsed inside the pen is unknown.
“All we know is he died some way, and the pigs ate him. Most of him,” Garner’s brother, Michael Garner, told the Los Angeles Times.
Coos County Dist. Atty. R. Paul Frasier said in a news release that authorities are trying to determine whether Garner was attacked by the animals and knocked to the ground, or whether he perhaps suffered a heart attack or other malady and fell unconscious inside the pen. Foul play has not been ruled out.
Frasier said a family member discovered Garner’s body after he went out to feed the hogs and was not seen for several hours.
Garner’s dentures were found in the pen. “Further searching of the enclosure revealed that Mr. Garner’s body was in several pieces, with a great majority of the body having been consumed by the hogs,” Frasier said.
Authorities said at least one of the hogs had previously bitten the farmer.
Garner, a Vietnam War veteran, raised the giant hogs — larger than most of those sold for food — and provided piglets as 4-H projects for local youths.
“He’s an animal lover. He couldn’t do anything else with them. He wouldn’t sell them to eat, or anything else,” his brother said.
“He didn’t just have pigs, he had all kinds of animals. People would drop by his house and just drop stuff off, and he’d take it in and raise it,” he said. “He’s a good guy. He’s my little brother.”
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hog-farmer-eaten,0,1252279.story
Pigs will eat almost anything 
I'm going to guess he had a heart attack.
Snatch - one of the greatest movies evar!!!!
…so in this case, eating bacon would have been good for his health.
recycling at it's finest?
It's one of the things that has always given me pause with raising hogs. Lots of folks read books like Charlotte's Web and think they're all pink and cuddly and cute. But a couple of hundred pounds of pissed off sow is a very different animal indeed.
Thats how Willy Picton got rid of the women he killed. Of course it helped that he was a hog farmer too.
Goes to show when hogs go bad.
"Were they Lancashire pigs?"
My uncle used to run moonshine. He was making a pick up one day and saw several skulls lined up on a fence . When he asked who they belonged to, he was told "revenuers." Turns out that a human skull was all that those pigs couldn't eat. He said they'd crack the skulls open and they'll eat the rest.
He still doesn't eat pork.
Derick Freese wrote:
My uncle used to run moonshine. He was making a pick up one day and saw several skulls lined up on a fence . When he asked who they belonged to, he was told "revenuers." Turns out that a human skull was all that those pigs couldn't eat. He said they'd crack the skulls open and they'll eat the rest.
Did your uncle look kind of feline-like by any chance?
I read this article earlier and I still ate ham for dinner 
I had a girlfriend years ago whose Dad was eaten by his hogs.
When we first started dating & were still in the "discovery phase" of the relationship, I told her that I grew up on a farm & that we'd raised hogs, etc. She'd been farm raised too & told me that her Father had been shot by an irate tenant while he was feeding the hogs. He fell into the hogpen & was eaten.
Chickens will eat most anything too. I still love to eat pig & chicken.
bearmtnmartin wrote:
Thats how Willy Picton got rid of the women he killed. Of course it helped that he was a hog farmer too.
I swear, I thought I was the only one saying "I know where the bodies went!!!" the whole time that investigation was going on.
