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What pigs should eat?

Pigs are carnivorous. Eat mouse, snakes etc
Industrial farm – soy and corn as feed.
Mid west farmers grow too much grain that they cannot sell to the cities, used to give feed for pigs. Then they sell pig meat.
Corn -> Pig -> Hams
Fatty acids, long chain omega 3 fatty acids does not come from factory meat.
Pigs raised on grains omega 6 fatty acids. Where as pigs raised on plants etc contain omega 3 fatty acids.

concentrated animal feeding operation CAFO
Michigan farmer.
Govt destroyed 2000 farms running in private property, where as 200 CAFO has no issue
Andrew Ward, Fulton county Georgia – bullied to death, just for raising chicken in his backyard.

Guest: Walter Jeffries of Vermont’s Sugar Mountain Farm

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