William writes:

<<Do swine really eat grass?
I had the impression it was roots, mice, dead people, or anything but
grass.>>

I once ran a large dinig hall at a pretigious private college in
northwestern Massachusetts.  All the leftover food from students' plates was
scraped into large trash cans and a local pig farmer picked it up daily.

Every time pork was served, I got a really uncomfortable feeling thinking
about eating it AND, thinking about the pigs eating the leftovers, lol.
Come to think of it, it was while I was working there that I went
vegetarian.

To this day, I will not eat pork.  I did try it since eating the way I do
now.  I just couldn't get past knowing the indiscriminate feeding of pigs.
Hell, they don't even look like something one should eat.  They make great
pets though!

Siobhan