Post by WVsnowflake on May 28, 2008 18:29:53 GMT -6
What passes for pork in the supermarket these days leaves much — besides taste — to be desired. What is a “ham and water-added product,” anyway?
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That’s why we added pigs to the product lineup on our small farm in southeastern Pennsylvania in 2006. We sell pork, by the whole or half hog, to the growing number of people who are fed up with supermarket pork.
We call it “pigloo pork” because the pigs are sheltered in plastic “igloos” — simple, inexpensive hoop-style greenhouse structures diverted from our vegetable operation. Pigloo pork, our marketing brochure explains, is simply the best, humanely raised pork available anywhere — without the added food miles and wasteful packaging of gourmet companies that ship such meat around the country.
According to research by Iowa State University (ISU), pigs raised inside a “hoop structure” such as our pigloos, are, in a word, happier than pigs raised in confinement on bare, slatted concrete floors over manure pits. Pigs raised in pigloos on deep, soft bedding had far fewer and shorter fights than confinement hogs. There was almost no tail-biting, but there was a lot more “play behavior.”
www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/2008-04-01/Raising-Grass-fed-Pigs.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iPost
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That’s why we added pigs to the product lineup on our small farm in southeastern Pennsylvania in 2006. We sell pork, by the whole or half hog, to the growing number of people who are fed up with supermarket pork.
We call it “pigloo pork” because the pigs are sheltered in plastic “igloos” — simple, inexpensive hoop-style greenhouse structures diverted from our vegetable operation. Pigloo pork, our marketing brochure explains, is simply the best, humanely raised pork available anywhere — without the added food miles and wasteful packaging of gourmet companies that ship such meat around the country.
According to research by Iowa State University (ISU), pigs raised inside a “hoop structure” such as our pigloos, are, in a word, happier than pigs raised in confinement on bare, slatted concrete floors over manure pits. Pigs raised in pigloos on deep, soft bedding had far fewer and shorter fights than confinement hogs. There was almost no tail-biting, but there was a lot more “play behavior.”
www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/2008-04-01/Raising-Grass-fed-Pigs.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iPost
