La Pourcailhade (also known as La Fete du Cochon or Festival of the Pig) was a pig festival that was held each year in August in the town of Trie-sur-Baïse, in the Hautes-Pyrénées department of south-western France.
The festival involved displays, pig races, eating contests and other competitions.
The most popular competition was "Le Championnat de France du Cri de Cochon" ("French Pig-Squealing Championships"), in which contestants had to imitate the noises pigs make at various stages in their life.
The contest achieved international notoriety in 2005 when a photo of one of the contestants Jacques Barrot was modified and portrayed as an attempt to ridicule Muhammad in the Akkari-Laban dossier produced by two imams who had been granted sanctuary in Denmark but were upset by the publication of 12 cartoons of Muhammad in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
The dossier was used as false evidence of anti-Muslim feeling in Denmark in several tours of Arab countries by the imams and others in an attempt to inflame passions about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.