Liberation of Greed?

The Chinese man remarked that during the revolution,
they used to eat pork only once a year.
This he said, while tucking into braised pork noodles.
It sounded like great misfortune.

But we wondered how he got so fat.
Could it be that he ate too much pork since ‘the liberation’,
and became porky-ish?
Was he slim and almost vegetarian during the revolution?

What is ‘the liberation’?
Freedom to devour more animals with unchecked greed?
It’s certainly no liberation for the pigs.
For them, it’s great misfortune.