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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:54:43 GMT
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- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Pigs
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :I asked a pig expert about the pot-bellied pigs growing larger. She said
- :that they had to have been crossbred for that to happen. Then I asked her
- :Doris's question about why they would be inedible. Here's her reply:
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- :> The only reason I can think of that they would be inedible is that they are
- :> too mature. Normal slaughter age is 6 months. The older pigs would not
- taste
- :> as good as the younger ones. But they wouldn't really be inedible.
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- : --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
-
- Aha. Maybe the farmers touting for p-b-pig retirement-home business are
- putting this rumour around then...
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- G
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