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Anyone can do a passable jamón. Try an authentic 5J and you will understand the worship.

Sometimes being vegetarian is hard :) I do miss ham.

If you are vegetarian due to moral concerns you may consider whitelisting jamon iberico de bellota. They live much better than we do.

The production of jamon iberico de bellota is strictly regulated, among other things each pig has to have at least 12500 m^2 of their natural habitat (dehesa) to roam freely and eat from the oak trees. That's what gives the meat the intense taste and infiltrated fat, the pigs grow freely roaming vast areas of their natural habitat and eat what they love most.

I'm not so much against killing animals than about letting a pig have a decent pig's life[0] and not allowing it to suffer when it's killed. It is a slippery slope though, and there are other ethical considerations such as the great inefficiency of producing animals for food when so many elsewhere can't get enough to eat. So perhaps and perhaps not. I guess for the latter reason I'll have to say no, but thanks for a constructive and helpful answer.

[0] Other animals and their lifestyles are available..

They are great inefficiencies for industrially produced meat, but all cow or pig that are let free to feed are more efficient as most of the land they are feeding on cannot be used to grow something useful.

> the great inefficiency of producing animals for food

In this case, one could almost think of the product as supporting a nature reserve.

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