Free Range Pork (must read)

[OldDog/NewTricks]

Read this if you eat Free Range Pork
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/opinion/10mcwilliams.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

 

[bverellen]

Follow the money :wink:

Editors' Note: April 14, 2009
An Op-Ed article last Friday, about pork, neglected to disclose the source of the financing for a study finding that free-range pigs were more likely than confined pigs to test positive for exposure to certain pathogens. The study was financed by the National Pork Board.

bart.

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[TexasBred]

Follow the money :wink:

Editors' Note: April 14, 2009
An Op-Ed article last Friday, about pork, neglected to disclose the source of the financing for a study finding that free-range pigs were more likely than confined pigs to test positive for exposure to certain pathogens. The study was financed by the National Pork Board.

bart.

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That makes sense since they'll eat anything that doesn't eat them first.

 

[NMRANCHER]

Down here we call them feral hogs.

A couple of years the state Health Dept. hired a plane and shot 16 of them from what I heard is that 14 out of the 16 carried the plague virus and that 11 out of 16 carried the rabies virus.

They just passed a law down here that call them a nuisance varmint and to be terminated at the first chance you get. They even outlawed the commercial hunting that some private landowners were using (ie. $200 a gun) to supplement income. The State just wants them gone.

http://www.roswell-record.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=39468&SectionID=97&SubSectionID=316&S=1