A litter of adorable piglets were rescued from a barn fire — only to be slaughtered and turned into “fantastic” sausages as a gift to the firefighters who saved them.

Eighteen baby pigs and two sows were rescued when a fire broke out in February at the farm in Wiltshire, England, which ripped through more than 130,000 pounds of hay, according to the BBC.

But six months later, in a cruel twist of fate, the piglets were butchered into bangers as a thank-you gift to the smoke-eaters.

Farm manager Rachel Rivers defended the morbid offering.

“I gave those animals the best quality of life I could ever give until the time they go to slaughter and they go into the food chain,” she said. “You do feel sad at the end of it … but to bring them down for [the firefighters] was a good way of saying ‘thank you.’”

The firefighters from Pewsey Fire Station said the sausages were “highly recommended” and thanked Rivers for her “generosity.”

“The sausages were fantastic,” said a fire spokesman.

Pewsey posted a photo of their delicious barbecue — which was later taken down.

“If you rescue cats, dogs and babies do you sit down to eat them six months later? You are vile human beings,” one woman, Claire Jones, wrote on the Facebook page. “You have no idea of what those animals went through. The fear and the pain. TWICE in their short lives. Go visit a slaughter house. Educate yourselves on the cruelty you are involved in.”