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Comment by thriving_earthw | Hacker News Reader

Is this just based on that one video or is there something more to this

Its probably true of most animals. I raised a couple of pigs and we intentionally never fed them any meat, even though they'd probably eat it, because we didnt want them to get a taste for it

For sure they'd eat it - pigs have a taste for everything.

You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty.

> You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty.

This is the real reason for the panic when Dorothy falls into the pig sty at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz. The pigs would crush her and eat her. (But in the movie, her dress doesn't even get dirty!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6cF5lyqEo

Finally a time when this obscure Wikipedia article is relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet

Apparently it's still a thing in places like rural India for people to squat to poop out in the fields, and then risk being bowled over by a pig rushing over to eat it.

They truly will eat anything.

As far as meat goes, they are not just scavengers - I've seen videos of wild pigs chasing after rabbits, actively hunting them down.

I'd never head of those Chinese "pig toilets", but it reminds me of a Chinese friend who said that growing up (maybe still?) it was common practice in the villages to feed infant poop to the pet/village dogs.

Yup. Lots of stories of old timers dying of a heart attack in the pen and only finding glasses and watches left.

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