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25 - Pig Destiny

  • May 24
  • 1 min read

Wilma:

With nuts and grains and plants and even frogs, North America gave lots of food to pigs.

So a few American pigs turned into lots and lots of American pigs.

Pigs ate slugs and berries on the Atlantic coast, pigs ate corn and squash in the Appalachians.

Pigs ate shrubs and snakes and fruit in the coastal lowlands.

Pigs have teeth just like people, and those teeth can chew most anything.

Pig incisors bite and cut, pig canines tear and hold and rip, and pig molars grind.

Pigs ate their way across America, biting, ripping, grinding with their powerful pig teeth.

 

Mona:

Pigs make use of all.

Cut. Tear. Grind. Munch. Crunch. Smack. Yum.

More food, more piglets.

 
 

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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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