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17 - The Pig Cycle

  • Jun 1
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Wilma makes use of overripe tomatoes...with gusto.
Wilma makes use of overripe tomatoes...with gusto.

Wilma:

There are many things that humans toss away…

Bits of food, rinds and shavings, peels and bones.

Those aren’t waste to pigs, but rather snuffle.

Pigs are good at making do, at finding use in everything.

Rotten fruit and moldly vegetables? Intestines and spare parts from hunting?

Pigs can take what humans do not want, and make it into fat and meat and flavor.

And our waste? Use it to grow more things, that humans eat and toss away…

 

Mona:

In the pig cycle

All has use, all has pleasure.

Round and round and round.





 
 

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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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