Growing Pigs for Meat
In Growing Pigs for Meat, presenter Cherry Healey visits a piglet farm and meets a farmer who raises sows who give birth to litters. The piglets are raised at the farm for five weeks before they are moved to an indoor farm where they continue growing for 20 more weeks. Every part of the pig is used; no part is wasted. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.
Lesson Express
Q: How does the pig’s diet impact its meat?
A: The pigs are fed food that increases their muscle, but that does not have a lot of fat.
Q: What does it mean that nothing on the pig is wasted?
A: Every part will be eaten or used.
Q: Do you think the farmer in the video could do his job well if he got attached to the pigs?
A: Student responses will vary.
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