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Pigs

Single purpose livestock with a weird relationship to gender

Eleanor Konik
Nov 10, 2020
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Photo of tusked boar by Magda Ehlers from Pexels

My husband showed me this utterly fascinating article about medieval pigs, which I've often heard a lot about (30-50 feral hogs, anyone?) but haven't really studied much. Since pig meat is so fraught with historic and religious significance, I decided to do a little more digging and see if I could find anything worth integrating to my worldbuilding.

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