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38 - Pig Parts

  • May 10
  • 1 min read

Hooves? She's got four of them.
Hooves? She's got four of them.

Wilma:

So many pigs butchered, but for more than meat.

With just one pig, you have four hooves.

But with millions of pigs, you open a glue factory.

The bodies of pigs are disassembled into products – blood, bones, hair, hides.

And because the factories are so big, they can make things with all those parts.

The parts can be sold and become almost more important than the meat.

Humans are a long way from pig songs and pigs dances.

 

Mona:

Pigs as pork, that’s all.

Mass production, companies.

No more happy pigs.

 
 

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Sources

Passionate Pig is grounded in the following sources: Jason Detzel, “A Brief History of the Pig in the United States” in Cornell Small Farms, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, October 7, 2019.

 
 
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