No more eating pigs

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/...p-eating-pork/

Yes!

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So if we all stopped eating pigs what would happen to the species? I mean who would keep them and for what reason,? Would they just roam free and if so would they survive? Just wondered.

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Pigs are perfectly capable of living outdoors and fending for themselves if they have the land in which to roam.
Of course the breeds bred for meat in factory farms have been developed unnaturally and live unnatural lives .
Eventually they would die down to a small proportion of wild animal s.

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Hi

An article written by a vegan,

Humans are omnivores.

Stop eating pigs, eat more horses instead, a logical conclusion as horses are less intelligent than pigs, then cows, no more milk and yoghurt and cheese, then sheep then chickens, sorry, no more eggs, then fish, the prawns then we all become vegan.

Sorry folks, no more manure, so massive composting plants, oops, they cannot produce enough so we use chemicals instead, huge mines and when the mines run out we all , well what is left of the human race, live off the land.

The harvest fails, humans are starving, so we start eating animals again.

Nature is nature, we are part of it.

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exactly

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We are indeed omnivores but now we eat too much of everything.
The natural pig is not full of antibiotics or preserved with nitrates .
It leads a good natural life it's not imprisoned in a cage in a tin shed on concrete all it natural instincts suppressed .
We really don't need to eat dairy products at all .
We are the only animal on earth that does .
I don't mind eating meat as long as the animal has a good life and doesn't suffer .
Pigs and chickens are among the most abused animals on the planet .

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We use chemicals on the land anyway .
On these massive factory farms the problem is getting rid of the massive amounts of waste produced .

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Nope, not at all.

We have massive chicken farms locally, the manure goes to land, it is injected and produces very good grass and corn.

The grass is then harvested as silage to produce feed for the cows over winter.

The cows than produce milk as well as manure, the milk goes to the massive cheese and yoghurt manufacturers locally.

Muellers alone produce 2 Million yogurts a day and !500 tonnes of butter a week.

The whey, a by product of this, then goes back to the pig farms, which produce manure and the cycle starts again.

My pigs were all free range, out and about, in a pen system.

Turned out onto the land, foraged and dug up the land and manured it at the same time.

When there was no more food, they went into the next pen and the old pen was sown and the crops harvested, so on and so forth.

Each pen was a quarter acre, plenty of room for them.

In Winter they were let out on the swedes and beet to forage.

Pigs will root up and eat all perennial weeds, so not a chemical used.

I kept Large Blacks and a couple of Peppa Pigs for the Littlie.

The pigs had a concrete based shed at night, covered with straw and a small concrete hard standing outside the shed.

Easier to clean, but they could wonder in and out as they pleased.

Nitrates by the way are only used to produce bacon, not pigs.

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They'd go feral, definitely survive and be a bloody pest which has to be hunted or baited. They carry disease, kill other animals including new born lambs as well as do a lot of damage to sensitive landscapes.



Feral pigs are a declared pest - read all about them and the damage they do here:

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurit...al-pig-biology

The best thing to do with pigs is eat them. Yum!

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