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Can’t we just let boars be boars?

2017-09-12 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

Growing up on a small pig farm in the 1960s, we castrated boar pigs to remove taint, the odor that emanated if you fried pork from an intact boar in the skillet. Boar taint is the primary reason farmers around the world have castrated boars for hundreds if not thousands of years.

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