SC - period pigs, fatter or not?

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

oops! I misspoke. Grocery store pork is FATTER, not leaner, because of the
reasons previously stated.

thanks for catching that!

- --AM

At 10:45 AM 11/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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?
>
>
>Mirhaxa
>  mirhaxa at swcp.com
>
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