An Old Breed of Hungarian Pig Is Back in Favor

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01pigs.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hungarian%20pigs&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Subject: re: An Old Breed of Hungarian Pig Is Back in Favor
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  By the end of the article, we have learned that the mangalitsa pigs sampled had been fed a special diet and where twice as old at time of slaughter as the benchmark American factory-raised pigs. Why should we expect the marbling, or the flavor, or anything else to be comparable?

Barry Levine