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12 - Domestication?

  • Jun 6
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Young Mona happily cleans up a "mess."
Young Mona happily cleans up a "mess."

Wilma:

Pigs lived near to humans for many, many years.

Pigs cleaned up the mess of people, and snuffled through their waste.

When did pigs feed people?

When did people feed pigs?

In western Asia, pigs and people first lived together at least as long ago as 8500 BCE.

Pigs still came and went.

We helped the people, just not all the time.

 

Mona:

Domestication.

Humans not the center. No.

Many pig choices.

 
 

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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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