I know this is going to sound kind of ridiculous, but they already look bigger! Even Elaine said so. They seem to be coming around a little bit, not because they're getting used to us, but I think they're just getting braver, so they don't hide as much. I keep talking to Elaine about their impending fate, in an attempt to keep her grounded, but I know she's going to have trouble. It's so strange when you think about how far removed we as Americans have become from our food, just in the last 100 years. Human beings have been around for millenia, and food production was always the same up until the last century.
I was walking into work with a couple coworkers the other day and I had brought one of them a dozen eggs. The other guy saw the eggs and said "I can't eat farm fresh eggs. The flavor is just different enough that I can taste it. It's not that it's a bad flavor, it's just that I know where they came from." It's really sad that this guy is like that, but in reality, it's the American way. The industrial food system of today has removed us from our food in a way that traditional food production actually disgusts people. My hens are clean, happy, and fed locally grown layer mash that is milled just 20 minutes from our farm. What is gross about that? I think about the eggs that this guy eats, the eggs from the supermarket and that grosses me out! Could you imagine living the way those hens live?
So here we are with our hens and our pigs, and I feel great about it. It is conversations like that one that I believe will help Elaine overcome her issue with raising pigs. Her responses are always spontaneous, and she gets exasperated with people who don't understand. Now if only she could apply that to the reality of our farm.
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