Think "apple in mouth, roasted on a spit"....
Better than "starving in the woods".....
Heck, one of the reasons we use in trying to get anti-hunters to understand the benefits of game management is that by culling herds we prevent animal overpopulation and thus starvation and sickness.
I don't really mean to mount some sort of crusade over this.
But harvesting the piglets is better than leaving them.
Springmom, who's probably said more than she needs to on this topic at this point