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Pigs can go "healthy" too!

I was in Silay City, Negros Occidental over the weekend to be part of the Philippine Blog Awards Visayas hosted the city known as " The Paris of Negros ". The next day the Tourism Office toured the delegates around it's cultural and heritage sites dubbed as " Lagaw Silay ". Among the most memorable legs of the tour for me was the visit to Fresh Start Organics farm where I saw this pig devouring lots of leaves. I forgot from which tree it came from but it doesn't matter since pigs usually eat " damog " ( kaning baboy ), those what is left over from the human consumption. While others are feeds fed, seeing one that is almost vegetarian is really a human interest story. From the looks of it, the pig is slim and lean like most of it's human counterpart doing the same diet thus the notion of a healthier pig thus a "healthier" supply of pork it can give. And it excited us more when it was casually announced that part of our lunch will be ...