Here’s a third pig that was not raised on a farm at all and lived out its natural lifespan, possibly being eaten by a predator but only out of necessity.

It is unrelated to the human diet and all pigs could be except when necessary for survival.

I’m not a vegan, but I will not eat farmed meat. I will eat locally hunted venison, but only because around here if the deer population is not culled, due to the fact that European settlers killed off all of their predators, the ensuing population boom would be an ecological disaster and I would rather the deer not go to waste.

If I lived somewhere where that was not an issue or there wasn’t a similar issue (I would be willing to eat hunted rabbit in Australia), I would not eat meat.

Nah, OOP’s post is sane, and a fair indictment of the western diet

So, forage for sparse calories, or recieve extra calories consistently via supplementation?

Remember this was extra feed, which is why she said “supplemented” – chances are their main feed was mostly corn and soy, anyway.

There is no surprise here – the right just got more calories and turned the excesses into fat. Not rocket science here people.

Plus I’m not buying pork because it’s lean; if I wanted lower fat I’d get chicken or tofu.

Why is this insane?

Gotta eat more soy to unlock my sumo powers.

Please don’t post gore without tagging it.