Photograph from The Pug Father on Flickr As someone who has fallen head over heels for designer pig, I was initially dismayed to read in the New York Times on Friday that trichinosis, which has basically been wiped out in industrially raised pigs, had been found in two designer pigs—and that a higher percentage of free-roaming pigs had salmonella and toxoplasma. It was the mention of trichinosis that got to me. I began to worry that this news makes a serious liar out of me. For years I've been telling people not to worry about ordering pork chops medium-rare because there hadn't been a case of trichinosis reported in the U.S. in many years. Then I reread the piece... More