tradition, ethics, landscape, quality and the soul of animals...
 

Tradition, ethics, landscape, quality and the soul of pigs: This words are connected to the Acorn Pig, which has a long tradition in Spain (Pata Negra) and which show up since 2003 in Germany.

How this would function and how this would taste, this had been the content of the intervention of Insa Winkler’s Acorn Pig Society.

10 pigs, bought from a conventional pig farm, did live in a small village Ganderkesee-Schlutter, close to Delmenhorst in Saxony on a grassland under a big Oak tree.

The project happen together with ten partners, each payed for one pig. The documentation with video shows, how the pigs are feed with acorns and trained for an Acorn Pig Race.

The agriculture project, which has been also a research about the circumstances of slaughter, did choice a very special man, who cares for farmers which still have pigs living in traditional keeping methods and which care for them from birth to death personally.

In today’s agriculture life, pigs only get 4 month old, being feed mostly with Soja from South America and then carried in big slaughter houses, sometimes 20.000 each day.

But this time the Acorn Pigs live 8 month to 16 month and had a great time with digging, eating acorns. Some of them came to know wintertime and they have been a good reference that even just normal hybrid pigs could live like that.

It is a permanent change of feeling, like all brave farmers to have a good and personal relationship to animals, but also producing food.

The big message of the project is: If you eat meet. you should be able to look those animals in their eyes. If not you better stay vegan. It is better to celebrate meet rarely in a very clear and social reflex ion of celebrating meals and pay more, than so separate between animal to look at and anonymous animals to eat as cheep meet.

A lot of farmers would change their methods for animal keeping if consumers would accept the circumstances of farming work.

How could it happen, that meet is more cheep than vegetables?
I hope that vegetarians are not only refusing meat, but do real actions against massproduction.

This Acorn Pigs and the products what they giving is sacrefied food with the spirit of culture and land and of sustain human and animal relation.