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This Little Pig wants to get Toronto fat on bacon
Love bacon? You're not alone, and you'll be happy to hear of a new, little company with an emphasis on locally and ethically raised, grain-fed bacon and pork products. This Little Pig strives to create "showpiece" bacon--the pigs are raised on local family farms in Perth County and St. Jacobs, Ontario, and then naturally dry-cured and hardwood smoked in Stratford.
The idea here is that humane conditions lead to "a richer flavour profile," while the artisanal-level preparation yield none of that nauseating oily runoff in the pan, and very little shrinkage. Not convinced? The bacon comes in such mouthwatering flavours as double smoked, apple cinnamon, black pepper, and Montreal smoke--elevating the hangover shame-eating staple to great new heights of both taste and relative environmental responsibility. They're also expanding into other products such as pork chops.
The product aside, check out their website for a lesson in sensitively avoiding any allusion to the animal itself (except for adorable piglets in the video above), with my personal favourite tagline being "happy, clean, and healthy bacon" (emphasis mine, for obvious reasons).
This Little Pig is available in a growing roster of fine groceries, including Hogtown Cure, Fiesta Farms, Stasis, and Hooked.
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I'd rather enjoy my life than eat tastless crap and live a few years longer.
You won't stop me from enjoying those yummy dead bodies. You might plant a seed in somebody else (not me) if you weren't so smug about yourself.
delicious bacon for some, veggies for others.
Copy editor, where are you??!
Yet they find it completely OK to eat all the food nature intended for those exact animals. Seeds, plants, etc.
Why are you eating all their food, jerks.
Get over yourself.
Who likes meat and who doesn't? Who thinks animals are for eating, and who doesn't?
Thats what this article on some random bacon company was all about. right?
Cool. You must be a blast at parties.
Someone's gotta be a crank...it might as well be me.
EAT BACON. LOTS OF IT.
Most humans are fairly narcissistic. Perhaps that is the subconscious origin of the ritual fascination with eating something that is very close to eating their own flesh.
And yet that bacon in the top picture still looks delicious.
By the way - y'all need to get over your obsession with gorging yourselves on animals - it's sick and twisted, not to mention extremely unhealthy. You need to eat to live - no more, no less.
Yes, please keep going.
People who believe that animals, including pigs, only have one purpose on our planet - to stuff down our gullets when we're hung over on a Sunday morning - are obnoxious, not to mention much toon easily offended by people who would rather exercise their brains than their stomachs.
What makes you think people in this thread aren't doing that... by talking about how much they crave a product that's locally grown and factory free? You might have a point if the lead photo was a glistening pile of Schneider's best or a postmortem shot of Babe strung up on hooks. Do you actually expect people to cry before they eat meat like you do (if you even eat meat, which you so, so obviously don't)?
But, please, go on...
In case you've forgotten, my original comment was a reply to someone who stated that they couldn't care less about how the animals they eat are raised. I wasn't making a blanket statement about everyone commenting on this article, however I do have an inkling that you are more concerned with the fact that your bacon is non-shrinking and apple cinnamon-flavoured rather than how the pig was treated before it was turned into perfectly cured meat strips.
It was of course, sarcastic
I really do care about where my meat comes from and I will be trying this delicious looking bacon