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They don't really eat manure; they root through it looking for undigested food, usually grain. But chickens do the same thing, and fish swim around in their own excrement, but most no-pork people eat chicken and fish, so...[shrug].


IIRC on some Pacific islands the 'toilet pig' (the one you fed with your own waste) was a special delicacy. Can't find anything online from a quick Google though.

Also, pigs are known to eat humans from time to time.


> pigs are known to eat humans from time to time.

apropos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NV00luZurw


There are also a lot of urban legends (some of which I suspect have a grain of truth) about a notorious serial killer in British Columbia who had a pig farm...


One of my wife's distant relatives was killed by a domestic pig. Don't know if he was eaten.


> but most no-pork people eat chicken and fish, so...[shrug].

Yeah... watch a few videos of pretty much any kind of industrial scale meat/fish/poultry farming and you'll shit, blood and piss... which isn't even the most revolting/disgusting things you'd witness




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