In Videos: Man Sleeps With Pigs for BBC Documentary
It’s one thing to read about the conditions in which factory-farm animals are kept. But it’s another to actually live the life of a pig slated for bacon. For a recent BBC documentary, titled My Life as an Animal actor Richard da Costa spent four days in the pigpen—sleeping on a bed of straw, feeding on soy-alfalfa pellets (“so disgusting that you would rather go hungry”), and dodging the frequent tussles of his snorty pen-mates.
Did bonding with the piggies turn da Costa off meat for good? “It was two months before I could eat pig after coming out of the farm,” he writes in the corresponding article. But his aversion didn’t last. “I finally cracked…I was lured back to tearing my former bedfellow's flesh with my teeth. And by what? Spare ribs. Chorizo. Plain old bacon.” Watch him practice pig snorts, after the jump.
Man Sleeps With Pigs for BBC Documentary
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Why is US food tv filled with nonsense cooking "challenges" and UK food tv is all about interesting information documentary-style views on the food we actually eat (i'm thinking this video and Jamie Oliver's factory chickens). Not fair.
mh330 at 3:53PM on 04/21/09
Pigs are so adorable and smart!
This is why I went veg, it was that damned cute little "hello snort" and snout nuzzles. Sigh...
sunshine6 at 1:57AM on 04/24/09