Posted on 08/07/2018 1:13:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.porkbusiness.com/article/its-great-time-be-fancy-pork-farmer
absolutely, flavorful like boar, but less gamy. Both chickens and swine are omnivores and naturally voracious foragers, so I tend to laugh when chickens are sold as 100% organic raised on vegetarian feed, the same is true of pigs who end up on soy based feed.
Yep. Heritage pork is fabulous. Everyone should at least try it for comparison purposes.
Note that if commodity pork is what is available, use the new instructions and recipes from pork producers organizations such as:
Heritage pork is different. So are heritage lamb, turkeys and chicken.
Go to the link below for more info:
https://heritagefoods.com/pages/our-breeds
“Both chickens and swine are omnivores and naturally voracious foragers, so I tend to laugh when chickens are sold as 100% organic raised on vegetarian feed, the same is true of pigs who end up on soy based feed.”
The same rule applies to ocean salmon versus farmed salmon.
Ocean salmon eat other critters in fresh ocean waters, and the farmed salmon eat chicken feed not in fresh ocean waters
A friend of mine raised a few Pigs years ago and OMG the smell and they are pigs, disgusting
Chickens used to eat bugs, grasshoppers & flies. Those don’t exist any more where US chickens live.
“Both chickens,swine and humans are omnivores and naturally voracious foragers...!
Yes we are. :)
My maternal grandmother, 1897-1969, used to tell me that when she was little, she would play with the piglets that her family raised. She said they were smarter than dogs. And when the time was right,she watched her father slaughter them.
Life is rough. Too bad it’s not that way anymore.
About 8 years ago, Mr Kitty and I bought heritage turkey for Thanksgiving. Cost an heck of a lot.
I learned to be thankful for Butterball. LOL!
Rosie O’Donnell was in town today. Does that count as “PORK on the Hoof”?
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