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Pigs are literally in the top three meats consumed.

• fknorangesite 4y ago
  Not wild ones. And it's easily within living memory that even farmed pigs were always cooked well-done because of the parasite issue.
• pvaldes 4y ago
  Old males meat has a very strong pungent taste. Pigs at the supermarket are either young or castrated to remove the problem. Hunters favor also young boars over the older males (unless the goal is the trophy and in that case the meat could be entirely discarded). Is also a though meat. Some people marinate wildboar meat for a few days before cooking it to tenderize it.
  • jutrewag 4y ago
    You got to cook it in a pressure cooker, that’s how people in South Asia do it. Turns out super tender and isn’t gamey.
• EntrePrescott 4y ago
  …that is: raised pigs of selected breeds, and more importantly: almost never uncastrated males, as their meat tends to have a bad taste (so-called boar taint, see link below) that makes it unsellable. That's why the overwhelming majority of raised-for-meat male piglets are castrated, so as to not develop that bad boar taint taste, at an age less than 14 days old. A cruel procedure by the way, which is at most places still done without any anesthesia or analgesia (pain relief). With feral pigs of course, none of that happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint