SC - period pigs, fatter or not?

[Linda Peterson]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
> about pudgy porkers...
> feeding it acorns, you could get a "medieval" piggie. So, "modern" piggs
> arent neccessarily skinnier by genes than medieval ones, but grocery store
> pork nowadays is going to be leaner than pork from an appropriate medieval
> breed that actually had to walk a bit to get its dinner.
> 
?? Why would a pen animal be leaner (more meat, less fat) than an animal
that had to walk and forage?


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