24 April

Joshua Rockwood’s Pigs

by Jon Katz
Joshua's Pig
Joshua’s Pigs

Joshua’s pigs are controversial. Two of them had gray matter on their ears, and the police decided it was frostbite – the temperature that week was in the -20’s all week. They charged him with having inadequate shelter for the pigs. The shelters I saw on his farm were more than adequate, his pigs all seem healthy and active. These babies are only a day or two old, Joshua knew all of the mothers by name, all of the babies are healthy and active and nursing. They all burrow into the hay with their mother to be warm.

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