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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:32PM (#18859909)
I beg to differ - it has basically become the norm for pigs. It didn't used to be, but it has become so.

I grew up in Indiana. Now, I've not lived there in 5 years, but I did live quite some time in a place that pigs outnumbered people in the county. The county seat was 3000. Even smelling pigs was becoming a rarity while out on a country drive and a flood meant that thousands of pigs drowned in a flooded barn ("pig factory").

Perhaps you are in a place where the pigs usually roam free, but I certainly wasn't.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by deadmetheny on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:46AM (#18874150)
Hogs are not a very common livestock animal in my area, so I have no knowledge of their conditions. I do know that sows are commonly caged separately from their piglets to avoid the mother accidentally rolling over and crushing them while they nurse, but that's about it.
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