/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12999375
As far as I am aware the pictures you see of pigs crammed tight are usually farrowing crates. They are used for a short time in breeding operations when the sow is giving birth and feeding newborn piglets so that she doesn't roll over and crush them.. it's not without controversy to keep them confined like that but it saves piglets from being crushed and eaten by their ignorant mothers. I'm sure in some parts of the world conditions are worse.

>>12999437
Maybe it's a happenstance speaking about evolution but it's no fluke we made friends with the dogs, their social order and their hunting skill fitted with us perfectly. Then later we have used their instincts to control and protect sheep and cattle.. early form of advanced animal husbandry. Pigs might be useful in some cases to find a truffle etc but they don't have the same hunting instincts and social structure, you can't use a team of them to herd thousands of grazing animals around. The taboos about eating dog and dog in the west is due to ten thousand years of working closely with them in agriculture. Why eat one meat eating dog when you can use him to herd 1000 grass eating sheep?

I think over time this has become an instinct, we have co-evolved with the dog to communicate so well that even people with no experience of working animals often have attraction to them as pets. Maybe that's cultural or maybe it's more.