01/14/2025
If you have seen the original post going around, please ignore it! It is an extremely uneducated post! Thanks Mindful Homestead for your response.
Stop sharing this.
Right off the bat, the "credit" is given to an account that doesn't exist on any social media platform that I can find. I looked, hoping to uncover more answers.
Secondly, you can raise pigs from the same litter, identically, and end up with genetic anomalies that lead to the fat variations seen below. In this years batch of pigs, we had 3 pigs from the same litter where 2 hung over 200lbs and the third at only 136, despite being born on the same day and getting the same feed.
Third, pigs aren't ruminants and cannot gain a sustainable amount of nutrition from grazing grasses alone. While a curated pasture with large amounts of legumes and high protein forage could sustain life, it won't achieve acceptable growth. Not to mention that the amount of inputs needed to grow and maintain that forage, and the huge amount of rotations needed to preserve it, would place a huge burden on the farmer. The costs associated with that pork would be sky high.
The bottom line is that the image below, along with the "story" associated with it, add up to nothing more than an image that is shocking on the surface to the uninitiated, but nothing more than a farce to gain clicks and traffic to the site of whatever farm page is sharing it.
If we are taking the post at it's word, the hog on the left can only be described as malnourished, and the hog on the right as overfed. Somewhere in the middle ground is where we strive to be as pastured hog producers.
