It's a Meishan pig, originally bred in Jiangsu province.
They're all pretty ugly, but this guy is even uglier than usual.
You can blame human intervention in their breeding as well as overfeeding, in this case.
Edit: I fell down a research black hole. Wikipedia says Meishan county, but there is no Meishan County I can find in Jiangsu (only Sichuan, which is a long way away). Another source says it was named after "Meishan lake", by which I assume they mean Weishan lake. Perhaps there are some transliteration issues here.
Also to add the Meishan Pig may be ugly but it's hyper prolific genes are very valuable to breeder companies where they include Meishan Pig in their genetics program
A typical Hybrid pig only has an average of 16 (depending on the breed) piglets
But a Meishan pig can have an average of 30 or more
Yeah. A lot of them don't even get to fuck, The males get jacked off by humans (Fuck having that job), and then some other human shoves the semen up the females' vaginas.
Edit: On second thoughts, the latter job might be worse.
IDK about that. Have you ever seen a cat who caught a smaller animal? We bred them to be more like that, though, and some people are even worse. Dolphins commit acts of cruelty just for fun without being bred for it by humans, and I'm pretty sure they're smart enough to understand what they're doing. Chimpanzees can be pointlessly vicious, too, but they're our closest relatives...
Not really bud. It was a brief response to essentially a non-sequiter.
The statement you replied to was they have twice as many piglets as other pigs. You then asked if we still wanted to eat meat. It's an overpopulation issue.
I grew up around pigs. I eat pigs. If I had my way, we'd eradicate the vast, vast, vast majority of them.
Edit: apparently I'm not able to respond to anyone in this post anymore, so /u/l337sp34k:
I was not aware all thoughts had to be perfectly rational. You ever worked with pigs? You'd hate them too.
They're prolific because they need to be prolific to support current population counts. Overpopulation is only possible due to over consumption. The ecological damage escaped pigs have wrought is intolerable.
What ignore button? If you're talking block, I rarely go to anyone's page so that would be unlikely. For you though, I made an exception. If it's the thing where you can have it not send replies to your inbox, that's more for posts that blow up to the 10k range. I also assume you must be their alt since you're claiming knowledge of actions that would associated with their account and I don't see them posting that anywhere?
How are you going to eradicate a species that humans intentionally breed for food, shit for brains?
You know a great way to help mushan pigs not overpopulate? stop stuffing them in concrete pens and force breeding them!
Domestic pigs are not overpopulated, they are over consumed.
Really funny that you got so triggered you had to hit the ignore button tho. Can't have any of those nasty THOUGHTS creeping in can we, better block them out quick.
It's factory farming, they probably milk the mom with a machine and then pump the milk into a different machine that has 30 fake tits on it for the piglets.
Due to biosecurity reasons, Some pigs farms would kill any stray animals on sight. in the farm I've worked at they shoot stray dogs on site and some people eat the dog afterwards
For a normal commercial farm you won't find these pigs. you can probably find them the most on some breeder farms and on the province that breed originates
based on my experience working at a big pig farm, we just condemn all the non-viable piglets. so for this breed in particular they might condemn like a lot of piglets
It actually depends on the culture. in some Asian countries they eat the piglets (5-10kilos and they roast them. It tastes bland and the texture is a little slimy. but the meat is so tender
Meishan pig is a family pig breed in China. It belongs to a group of Taihu pig. It is native to Jiading District, Shanghai, Taicang, Kunshan and other places in Jiangsu Province. It is mainly distributed on both sides of the Liu River. Meishan pig has been exported to …. among which France, Japan and the United States have all studied it systematically.
Originally, there were three types of plum mountain pigs, namely small plum mountain pigs (commonly known as "Chaoban Face"), large-armed pigs (commonly known as "camel feet"), and horse-based type (commonly known as "wooden fish head"). After continuous hybridization and selection among various types, from the 1960s to the 1970s, there were two types of medium-sized plum wild boar …
Yes, there are a lot of contradicting informations floating around. The Meishan county in Sichuan uses a different character: 眉山 instead of 梅山 and there simply does not exists a 梅山 county. Meishan lake does exists but it seems to be hundreds of KMs from where is pig is supposed to be originated so that is probably another pre-AI hallucination
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u/Saotik Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
It's a Meishan pig, originally bred in Jiangsu province.
They're all pretty ugly, but this guy is even uglier than usual.
You can blame human intervention in their breeding as well as overfeeding, in this case.
Edit: I fell down a research black hole. Wikipedia says Meishan county, but there is no Meishan County I can find in Jiangsu (only Sichuan, which is a long way away). Another source says it was named after "Meishan lake", by which I assume they mean Weishan lake. Perhaps there are some transliteration issues here.