This little piggy went to market
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The pigs are back! But not ours this time. Our freezer is still heaving so we really couldn’t justify getting another pig this year. But our neighbour and previous co-op partner is really going for it on a commercial (albeit small) scale with SIX little piglets. Tamworths this time, rather than Norfolk Blacks.
Here they are, en masse….I call this picture ‘Here come the girls’ since they are, er, girls…
Oh, hang on…there’s always one isn’t there…would Little Miss Piggy in the back PLEASE get back in to line?
ohhhhhkaaaaaaaaaay, I’m taking that look to mean no…
I call this one Little Miss Curiosity (subtitled: move away from the D700, I repeat, move AWAY from the D700)..
Look how their gorgeous ginger coats sparkle in the sun! This is a true representation of their colour/sparkle. Really lovely to look at…
But, on reviewing the photos and choosing the best, all I could think was ‘Oh you’re so sweet but [puts on Gruffalo voice]…you’ll taste good in a BACON SANDWICH!’)
And to all those of you going ‘Ewwww, that’s SO mean, how could you, how could eat those darling little pigs?’…here’s a picture of me with our lovely pigs last year…
I’m eating a huge pork chop from one of them right now. And very, very tasty it is. I didn’t shed a tear when we took them to slaughter even though we’d collectively raised them for 6/7 months. They had a fabulous life and were treated well and kindly. Then they were taken to slaughter and were killed in with the minimum of delay, fuss or distress. So, yes, next year I’m sure we’ll be eating some of the meat from one or more of those six little piglets. And it will feel better, not worse, than the stuff we buy in the shops because we’ll know exactly how they lived and died.
With that off my chest I will confess that these little beauties are still in my freezer, awaiting ‘dealing with’. Hmmm.
Pigs are so cute! I love their ginger colour :-)
I worked on a pigfarm, your pictures are beautiful, your story brought a smile to my face but do not put it on my plate please.
Have a great weekend.
xoxo e.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh……….. That last picture. Still recovering.
Gorgeous photos, except the last one! Little Miss Curiosity is beyond cute but all I keep thinking of is crackling, yum yum.
We are a veggie family, but a lot of that comes down to how meat is packaged and produced for supermarkets etc… and our limited access to fresh meat. I always think that if you are able to raise your own pigs, chickens etc in a humane way, kill them humanely and then use every last bit of them for food (and far tastier than anything that you’d find on a supermarket shelf), then that’s how we should be living. It’s just not possible for us in our teeny, tiny house in London town :( but your last picture, although a little sad, seems perfectly natural to me and exactly how food should be consumed. I really miss bacon!
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